Hi I just read this article and would love you hear your thoughts…
called Cross-Specificity Training for Golf Fitness

By Sean Cochran, Golf Fitness Trainer on the PGA Tour and owner of http://www.seancochran.com
http://www.performbetter.com/catalog/matriarch/OnePiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_349_A_PageName_E_CochranCrossSpecifity

These days everyone sounds the same….. learning is becoming difficult..
Patty

The first step in this process of developing a physical base for the golf swing is an understanding of the basic mobility/stability pattern of human movement. This concept was first noted by physical therapist Gray Cook and strength coach Mike Boyle. This principle states efficient movement within the kinetic chain of the human body occurs in an alternating pattern of mobile joints and stable segments. If this pattern of mobile joints and stable segments is altered, dysfunction in movement patterns will occur, and compensations in these movement patterns will be the result. The table below provides a joint-by-joint view of this pattern with the human body.

Mobility/Stability Pattern of Human Movement Table

Mobility/Stability Pattern

Foot – Stabile

Ankle – Mobile

Knee – Stabile

Hip – Mobile

Pelvis/Sacral/Lumbar Spine – Stabile

Thorasic Spine – Mobile

Scapula – Thorasic – Stabile

Gleno-Humeral – Mobile

Elbow – Stabile

Wrist - Mobile

Cervical – Stabile

As you can see from the above table efficient human movement occurs within this “feet to fingertips” alternating pattern of a mobile joint followed by a stabile joint throughout the entire kinetic chain.

Hi Patty,

You will hear a lot of these physiological mumbo jumbo. And they all sound great in logic and common sense, but doesn’t always pan out in research. This is the concept mainly by Gray Cook: the stability and mobility concept. He got it from Shirley Sahrmann. Shirley Sahrmann uses it mainly for treating pain.

Gray Cook functional movement screen is a big name in the fitness & strength industry. But the studies are painting an entirely different picture. I have been to one of his seminars and wrote a review about it too. You can read it here: http://www.exercisebiology.com/index.php/site/articles/functional_movement_screen/

Usually what Mike Boyle says is from Shirley Sahrmann. I had started a long thread about the posture article in his old forum.

I am not saying you should completely stop using these concepts. I use some of these in my training too. But I do know their limitations and knows pretty well that they are just theoretical. Until they do an randomized controlled study with these concepts and show that golf swing does improve with these concepts, it is just another hypothesis.

Read my review about FMs and you will know what I am talking about.

as always - thanks!