WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:06.040 Hi, This is Paul Parvidus from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.240 play a game that has a four letter name, but 3 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:12.080 they called it golf instead. I play various courses about 4 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:15.839 an hour's drive outside of the city. This is Golf 5 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:16.920 Smarter number. 6 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:20.359 Four hundred and seventy nine, published on March ten, twenty fifteen. 7 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:25.640 Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 8 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:29.280 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 9 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:35.280 Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction never gets old. Our 10 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:40.200 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 11 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:43.799 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 12 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.119 Every great player with no exception, and trust me, I've 13 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:50.799 been inside their heads. They see things differently. They're so 14 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:55.280 focused on the target. Their visualization is dramatic. Arnold told 15 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:57.799 me the first time I work with him that the 16 00:00:57.880 --> 00:00:59.960 only thing that he tried to do in his golf 17 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:03.359 was with his right hand. Feel like he's shaking hands 18 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.120 and touching the target because he convects his wrists and 19 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:09.200 really cleared deep, almost shaking hands with the target with 20 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:11.519 his right hand. I mean, I've been at Nicholas's house 21 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:14.319 when he displained how he plays the Masters, which is phenomal. 22 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:17.280 Talks about looking at the trees, see where the wind's 23 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:19.599 blowing in the trees, and the ripples down in the pond. 24 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:23.319 Where's the flagstick on eleven, and what's the flagstick doing 25 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.599 over on twelve? And he said, quote, Guys, it's almost 26 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:28.519 like I'm in a fairy land. It's almost like I'm 27 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:30.959 in this imaginary world. I just kind of feel my 28 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.000 way along seeing the targets and the shape of the 29 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:37.640 shots with the wind. And again, the average high handicapper 30 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:40.040 just stands up there and hits it out there somewhere 31 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:41.560 in hopes it ends up good. 32 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:50.719 Your twenty seven point plan for better shot making with 33 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:53.560 fitness expert Roger Fredericks. 34 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:56.239 This is Golf Smarter Premium. 35 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:04.000 Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast. Roger, Hey, Fred, 36 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:04.480 how you doing. 37 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:06.519 It's been many moods. It's good to talk to you again. 38 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:09.120 It is great to talk to you again. We met 39 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:13.120 years ago doing a piece for the Golf Channel with 40 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:18.960 Catherine Roberts Swing Flaws and what was that swing? 41 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:21.240 I think it was an eight part series. Catherine and 42 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.360 I get on the golf channels called Swing Fault Solutions. 43 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:27.240 Yes, it was, and I was the guinea pig on 44 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:27.719 one of them. 45 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:29.639 You were the star of one of our episodes. 46 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:31.759 No, no, no, no, it was the guinea pig. You were 47 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:34.960 the star. It's a lot of fun though, and it 48 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.680 was great to meet you. You've got a phenomenal history 49 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:42.319 with the people that you've worked with. I want to 50 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.240 you know, established who you are, what you do, who 51 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:48.719 you've who you've helped, and then we'll get into how 52 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:55.280 you can help us. Okay, So are you a PGA 53 00:02:55.439 --> 00:03:00.840 certified golf instructor? Yes, I am, okay, and but you are. 54 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:04.800 Now what came first, the fitness flexibility part or the 55 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.000 PGA teaching pro. 56 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:09.879 Well, what happened was, I'll make this real quick. I 57 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:13.439 had a pro golf career cut short a long time ago, 58 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.319 back in nineteen seventy two, and I shattered a real 59 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:21.120 complicated bone in my wrist, and I consequently ended up 60 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:25.360 having two surgeries on that, very serious surgeries where they 61 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:27.360 took bone graph ticke a bone out of my hip 62 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:30.800 and transplanted that in my wrist. That didn't work. Then 63 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:32.840 they put a prosthetic in there which is still in 64 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:36.479 there today. And over the next maybe eight years, you know, 65 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:39.159 I ended up with even more problems. I had two 66 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:42.240 knee surgeries on my left knee, which is not on common. 67 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.759 If you look at most golf injuries, most of them 68 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.319 and the surgeries are on the left side for right 69 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:50.960 handers because the less stable you know, side usually takes 70 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.680 the brunn of and finny wears out. But anyway, I 71 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:55.639 went through that probably got out of the golf business. 72 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:57.560 But I had a guy look at me. And by 73 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:00.560 the way, I went to countless and I mean countless 74 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:05.639 orthopedic surgeons, physical trainers, rawfice herabologists helped practitions mainly for 75 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:09.919 my knee, and nothing worked. And one day a guy 76 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:13.080 looked at me. He was gutting Rick McDonald. He was 77 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:15.360 the head trainer for the San Diego Chargers, and he 78 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:18.319 just I never told him anything about myself. And he 79 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:20.839 looked at me and he said, you just watched my 80 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:23.759 gate And he said, hey, you must have one heck 81 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:25.439 of a sore left ankle when you hit a lot 82 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.560 of golf balls, and my ankle would swell up and 83 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:30.879 my knee was history. They won't to have another surgery 84 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.759 on my knee, but anyway, and I said, how do 85 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:37.160 you know that? And he diagnosed my posture to me, 86 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:40.399 and he said, your posture is horrible. At the time, 87 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:43.800 I was thirty three years old, and he diagnosed my 88 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.480 posture and then he got me completely out of pain. 89 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.920 And guess what my golf game, which had been at 90 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:53.639 one time pro tour material. Then I got injured, and 91 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:55.519 then it went up to about an eight handicap. It 92 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:58.319 was fifty to fifty whether I'd break eighty or not. 93 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.240 Then I got my bat by body back in shape 94 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:03.600 and I started playing great golf again, and soon after 95 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:06.600 I set two course records in San Diego. And I think, 96 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:08.279 wait a minute. You know I used to play. I 97 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.199 used to be young, and you know, in a good 98 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:13.480 shape and played really good golf. Then I got myself 99 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:17.680 into real horrible shape, surgeries and all that, and I 100 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.600 played bad golf. Then I get myself back into good shape, 101 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:23.279 and I played great golf again. I've been playing decent 102 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:26.959 ever since. It's like, hey, eventually I got into it. 103 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:29.560 I made my career out of it. And right around 104 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:33.360 that time, a lot of research was coming out on 105 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:36.879 the biomechanics and the physiology of the golf swing, and 106 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:40.680 we learned that good golf demands it has to have 107 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:45.839 ample flexibility, especially in the upper trunk and anyway, So 108 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.079 I got into that movement, got myself really flexible, and 109 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:51.720 then started my own golf schools, and I used to 110 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:55.079 put in besides the normal half day one day school's, 111 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:58.319 private lessons, beginner schools and all that, I put in 112 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:01.319 golf fitness schools. For this is back in now we're 113 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:05.879 back in nineteen eighty eight, and I couldn't pay people 114 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:08.240 to take them. But eventually I learned the right way, 115 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:10.199 I think to market it and sell it. And I've 116 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:13.680 been doing that ever since. So one thing led to another, 117 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:16.560 and I started working with a bunch of tour players, 118 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:20.800 mainly the senior tour guys, and you know, Arnold Palmer 119 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:23.000 came across a lot of people referred Arnold to me, 120 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:26.560 and so I got together with him, and then you know, 121 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:28.759 he bought into it, and we really helped him a lot, 122 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.800 and he and I he funded an infomercial for me 123 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:34.839 which went on the air, him being Gary player Donica Pone, 124 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:38.079 and it was called Roger Fredericks Reveals the Secrets to 125 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:41.439 Golf Swing Flexibility. And the rest is kind of history. 126 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:44.319 So I've been, you know, I've been mainly I asked 127 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:47.079 you a question in my long winded fashion, the golf, 128 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:51.319 the golf plane, and instruction came first. Then I learned 129 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:54.879 that the golf swing is a demanding athletic endeavor, and 130 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.480 then i'd you know, taken off from there. So that's 131 00:06:57.560 --> 00:06:59.759 kind of the story of my life in twenty five 132 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:00.759 words or less. 133 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:09.000 With an asterisk. It's amazing that you have helped define 134 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:14.399 for everybody. Is golf a sport? I guess when it 135 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:17.399 comes to injuries, Yeah, it's a sport, right, There's so 136 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:19.120 many people who just be, oh, you're not. It's not 137 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:21.680 just because it has a ball doesn't mean it's a sport. 138 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:27.560 Well yeah, I mean we're pro golfers, and just about 139 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:32.439 all good golfers are really great athletes in that we 140 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:37.879 all have super tremendous strong legs. Why because we all 141 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:40.639 started the game and we're kids, and think about around 142 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:42.879 the golf is about a five to seven mile walk, 143 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:46.519 and we're walking eighteen twenty seven thirty six sols a 144 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:48.959 day since we're little kids, you know. Plus we're in 145 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:53.160 a semi squat position doing a semi lunch. We're walking 146 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:57.120 on average around maybe ten to fourteen miles a day, 147 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:00.720 bending over and all that. So we do this, you know, 148 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.240 day after week after month after year after decade. We 149 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:07.279 end up with incredible leg strength without even knowing it. 150 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.920 And then we're doing this gymnastic uh you know, rotation 151 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:13.800 of the spine we end up with. We're doing that 152 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:18.120 millions literally of times. We end up with superb upper 153 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:22.160 body flexibility, almost gymnastic, you know. So we have the 154 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:25.959 super strong legs to stabilize our body and provide the 155 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.240 power and support. We have an incredible upper body flexibility. 156 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.639 So you know, yeah, I mean it is a sport. 157 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:36.960 And you look at so many great athletes that turn 158 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.720 to golf, and you know what do they have. They 159 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.200 have super strong legs strength for you know, running around 160 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:46.679 in their individual sport. They have great upper body flexibility, 161 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:49.559 and most good athletes you know, don't have that part 162 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:52.759 of a time on playing good golf. And then you 163 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:54.879 have the other side of the coin where you have 164 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:57.240 the average person who grew up with a real job, 165 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:00.159 you know, and you know they go to work every 166 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.399 and they're sitting down. They don't have the leg strength 167 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:05.559 they don't have the upper body flexibility because they're forward 168 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.720 rounded shoulders all that, and they come out and they 169 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:11.360 really have a hard time of playing golf. So, yeah, 170 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:15.240 the golf swring is a very demanding athletic endefforent. It 171 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.200 does look like it because we're not jumping and sprinting 172 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:23.320 and you know, doing a lot of burst burst speed 173 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:25.440 type of stuff and all that. But it's a you 174 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:27.879 got to be You have to have pretty good function 175 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:30.159 in your body to play the game, that's for sure. 176 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:32.720 Yeah you're not you're not doing any of those activities, 177 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:34.919 but you are wringing your body like it's a wet 178 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.120 rag and you're trying to get all the water out. 179 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.159 You're just twisting it and doing things to it. You 180 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:45.879 mentioned needing to have strong legs. You were saying that 181 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:49.720 pro and good golfers have great strong legs, but you 182 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:53.759 also just talked about having terrible posture and that that 183 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:56.120 ruined your golf. So now we've got both halves of 184 00:09:56.159 --> 00:10:00.720 the body that are working against us as amateur golfers. 185 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:04.399 Absolutely, And even though over all these years, you know, 186 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.120 I've gotten a reputation as the golf flexibility guy with 187 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:09.600 Catherine and I always kid ourselves because a lot of 188 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:11.919 people call us the King and Queen of golf yoga. 189 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:15.480 But you have one. Roberts will fight you on that one. 190 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:16.039 But that's good. 191 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:22.200 But like you're saying, but the truth of the matter is, yes, 192 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:25.840 the good golf swing demands flexibility and I've I've gone 193 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:28.360 that route. The whole thing is I have. My whole 194 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.519 thing is just about it's really been to get people 195 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:36.440 back into proper posture. And I am one hundred percent convinced, 196 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.480 and you can hold me to this right now on 197 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:42.720 your show. A posture will be and is becoming the 198 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:46.360 next big movement in health and fitness. Years ago we've 199 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:49.720 seen that. We've seen jogging, we've seen AEROBICX, we've seen 200 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:55.759 pilates and yoga. Last ten years it's been core. I 201 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:59.840 guarantee you posture is the next thing. It is, without question, 202 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:06.120 in my experience, the most neglected and a misunderstood aspect 203 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:09.000 of health and fitness, and in the golf swing too. 204 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:12.039 The body has one design for all of us. We're 205 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.759 all created equal. We have the same amount of muscles 206 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:18.200 and joints and the same design, and the giant design 207 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:20.720 is simply this is all on my website. But design 208 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:22.919 is simply to have the ear over the shoulder, over 209 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:25.200 the hip, over the knee, over the ankle. And you 210 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:28.240 look at little kids when you guys, when we're done 211 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:30.200 at this show, I want everybody to go out and 212 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:33.840 look at little children, especially up until maybe five or 213 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:37.080 seven years old. They're perfect little machines. Their feet are 214 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.919 straight ahead, their head sit right top, run on top 215 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.840 of their clavicles, and you can drop them, throw them, 216 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:47.600 you kick them. They don't break. What happens though. 217 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:49.679 He can't do that anymore are. 218 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:52.919 Our hunters and gatherers. We don't do that anymore. We 219 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:56.720 sit down at cars and desks and computers and do golf, 220 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:00.799 smarter radio shows. Sitting down, we end up out a 221 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:04.519 proper posture, and we see rowdy shoulders, forward head, especially 222 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:07.399 the most common one. You know. You know right off 223 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:10.279 the bat. You don't need to be a rocket scientists 224 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:12.519 to figure this out. When you see a person with 225 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:16.600 roundy shoulder, forward head, all that means is, in layman's terms, 226 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:20.240 the muscles on the front side of their body have shortened. 227 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:24.240 It's tightened, and it's pulled the person forward, and then 228 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:27.440 the back muscles restrict too. So when that person comes 229 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:30.080 out to play golf, they try to make a shoulder turn, 230 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.679 no comprehenitive. They can't do it because the muscles just 231 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.000 will not expand, and then they end up compensating, and 232 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:40.879 then that usually creates compensations for compensations, and then it's 233 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:45.360 you know, we're in trouble. But again, I'm now verver. 234 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:48.320 I'm not to say veering off, but I'm going more 235 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:55.200 into the posture reconstruction restoration programs to really get people 236 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:58.000 not only flexible, but get their bodies back into proper 237 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:00.879 design so they can function better, not only in the 238 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:03.840 golf but in their life. 239 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:09.960 I would love to be able to make a living 240 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:14.399 out of working out on my golf game. And but 241 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:18.480 I know, of all the professional golf people that I 242 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:21.639 speak to, none of them get to play golf anymore. 243 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:24.480 They're too busy. But I'm a desk jockey. I've been 244 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:28.919 a desk jockey for most of my thirty plus year career, 245 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:32.720 so I'm sitting most of the day. Now, I'm sitting 246 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:37.840 in front of computer screens. And I found that chairs 247 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:40.919 and sitting at a desk has been the worst thing 248 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:45.879 for my back. Of everything that's bad about my pasture 249 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:49.480 and my lifestyle as far as how I hold myself. 250 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:53.399 I've learned how to sleep differently, which has helped my back. 251 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:57.759 But so many people use like one of those inflated 252 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:01.360 balls that the big rubber balls to use as chairs, right, 253 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:04.360 And I have found a chair that kind of mimics 254 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:07.480 that but in it so it does engage my core 255 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:11.879 and it has really helped my back. But I'm fairly 256 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:14.000 certain my posture sucks. 257 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:17.480 Yeah, Well, what happens when you and I are talking 258 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:21.679 right now and we're sitting down the most powerful muscles 259 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:23.440 in our body, the upper part of the legs, and 260 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:27.399 what's called the hip flexors ILLEO sos in particular our hips. 261 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:30.320 Now there, right now, you and I are actually working out. 262 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:34.679 We're actually exercising because our hip flexor muscles are actually 263 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:37.440 in contraction, just like if I were to you can 264 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:40.240 see that if I'm going to flex my arm here, 265 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:44.000 my bicyple up here in the top part is contracting, 266 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:46.480 and that's what our hips are doing. And we do 267 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.559 this again all the time, for hours a day and 268 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:53.480 for years. Those muscles find me shortened, and when they shorten, 269 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:56.279 they pull the pelvists forward and then what's the pelvis 270 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:59.639 attached to the spine, and the spine finally starts to 271 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:02.519 wear out. And what you're doing, you're on the right 272 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:05.840 track because the Swiss balls are definitely they definitely help. 273 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:09.759 And the best thing, though, are these stand up desks, 274 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:12.360 and they're becoming more and more popular, and for good reason. 275 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:14.559 You have those desks now that stand up and you 276 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:16.519 put your computer up there. You don't have to sit down, 277 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:21.279 and almost assuredly with most people, the bad problems will 278 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:21.759 go away. 279 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:26.799 Is it okay? I've got a physical coming up in 280 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:28.480 a couple of weeks. Is it okay if I tell 281 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:31.720 my doctor that you told me that I'm exercising all 282 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:32.720 day along at my desk? 283 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:39.399 Sure, okay, hips, But you don't know one more thing. 284 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:42.799 When when we're sitting down, all of their weight, the 285 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:45.720 entire all of our upper body weight is going right 286 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:49.919 down where on our organs, and the organs are getting squished. 287 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:53.360 Our organs in our pelvis were not designed to bear 288 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:57.279 the weight our feet and legs were, and now our 289 00:15:57.399 --> 00:16:00.840 organs are getting squished. So when we be all that 290 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:04.840 weight now plus we get one sided. You know, almost everybody, 291 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:07.879 you know, most most people in our culture the world 292 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:10.879 for that matter, is right handed, so you know, you 293 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:14.159 over use one side of the body. Tennis players get 294 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:17.919 tennis elbow, Baseball pitchers blow out the rotator cuffs, and 295 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.399 Tommy John the golfer's milu is a tight right hit 296 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:23.679 for most of us, and then that it dominates the 297 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:27.919 left side. But now we're sitting down and our pilvis 298 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:31.240 is out of position, and then you know, eventually our 299 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:34.279 prostate for us guys starts wearing down as we get older. 300 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:38.120 Women they get real tight in there. Many many women 301 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:41.600 now are forced to have cea sections because the birth 302 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:44.320 canal gets squished and the seed can't go up the 303 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:48.720 pillopian tubes and urinary infections, you know, the urine pools 304 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:51.639 and there. It goes on and on and on, and mainly, 305 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:54.919 I really i'd love the statement. We don't love it, 306 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:59.679 but I mean it's accurate in that I know that 307 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:04.400 sitting down is really the new cigarette smoking. It's it's 308 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:08.079 this is destroying our health. And we're seeing more and 309 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.160 more and more hip and knee replacements, back surgeries, carpal 310 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:15.160 tunnel I mean, shoulder surgeries that's becoming epidemic by the way, 311 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.960 and plant our fascy eyed, his bunions falling ours all 312 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.279 because the body's out of its design. And again it's 313 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.240 just we're just not getting the proper motion that we should. Beginning. 314 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:28.720 Is running a bad thing? 315 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:32.880 Long is a wonderful thing. If your body is in line, 316 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:35.640 if you if you're if your hip, knee and ankle 317 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:39.519 are lined up and you're walking, you're landing heel ball tow. 318 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.920 You can run to your heart's content. But most people have. 319 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:45.759 When you see duck feet, when a person has feet 320 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:49.440 that are inverted, the feet, the feet and knees tell 321 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:52.000 you what's going on in your hips. And when you 322 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:55.000 see a person who's running duck footed the media, the 323 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:57.599 inside part of the knee now is getting you know, 324 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:01.720 is getting the brunt of it. It's called joint centration. 325 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:04.839 So yeah, I mean you're gonna blow out your knees 326 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:07.039 and your hips tighten up and you get back problems 327 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.799 and on and on and on and on. So I 328 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:13.200 get asked all the time, what do I think of 329 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:18.279 this exercise, this machine, this new exercise, workout or whatever. 330 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:22.680 And my standard answer is are all exercise is good? 331 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:27.640 And my answer is, well, pretty much, yes, Are all 332 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:33.240 exercise is good for all people, no way. More and 333 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:37.359 more and more people fred are coming to me, you know, Roger, 334 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:38.920 I don't get it. I work out all the time, 335 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:42.000 I take care of myself, and I'm still I'm still injured. 336 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:44.640 My back still kills me, my knees still going out 337 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:47.799 and again because their body is out of proper alignment. 338 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:51.039 You see, we're seeing this on the pro golf tour. 339 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:53.680 I mean, the Pro Golf Tour is becoming a mass unit. 340 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:56.680 And I've written a couple of articles and done some 341 00:18:56.759 --> 00:19:00.559 interviews recently, be coming out pretty soon. Guy called it 342 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.640 the dark side of the golf fitness movement. And you 343 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:06.400 look at these pros out there, and everybody say in ah, 344 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:08.799 what great shape they are, and they are, most of them. 345 00:19:09.319 --> 00:19:12.559 But you know, how about all the injuries. I mean, 346 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:17.000 Tiger is the poster boys had four knee surgeries, back surgeries, 347 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:20.039 I mean Achilles problems, shoulder problems, and he's only one 348 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:23.599 of many. And these think about it. These kids, since 349 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:27.920 they're little children, infants are hitting golf balls, you know, 350 00:19:28.559 --> 00:19:32.039 millions of times, and they get one sided, just like 351 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.880 I mentioned the tennis players and baseball pitchers, and they 352 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:38.839 get one sided in the right side dominant. And now 353 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:40.960 they go and they get workout ors. They're trying to 354 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:43.160 keep up with Tiger, and you know the rest of 355 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:46.039 the guys, and what do they do. They go out 356 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:48.680 and some of these guys overdo it and they work 357 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:52.319 out too strenuously, a lot of them. And as I say, 358 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:57.319 they're putting Ferrari engine on weak internal Volkswagen frames and 359 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:00.519 you put that kind of stress on there. They're getting 360 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:03.240 injured too. So you got to watch it. You've got 361 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:05.519 to watch your workouts, make sure you're doing the right 362 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:06.440 stuff for you. 363 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:10.079 That is so interesting that for years we've been talking 364 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:14.559 about the Tiger effect on the industry and now it's coming, 365 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:17.319 you know, it's coming around to where the industry is 366 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:20.680 struggling and courses are closing and people are leaving the game. 367 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:25.000 And they're still blaming Tiger for all this. But the 368 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:27.519 fact that you're bringing up the exercise element, which he 369 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:31.400 changed the business, He changed the golf world by coming 370 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:36.720 out being such a fine physical specimen, and now that 371 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:39.440 he's deteriorating at a young age, it's like, oh wait, 372 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:42.319 we didn't really sit back and watch what's happening before 373 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:45.359 we get you know, and try to be exactly like him. 374 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.400 And right now look at him. Oh wow. 375 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:52.599 And even though I'm I've been propagating the golf fitness 376 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:57.440 movement for mid nineteen eighties, you know, to me, it's 377 00:20:57.480 --> 00:21:00.279 good news bad news. And the good news is, yeah, 378 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:02.599 more and more people are getting fit. They're increasing their 379 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:05.960 bone density and muscle mass and flexibility, and they feel 380 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:09.200 better and they're more confident, and cardio and all that. 381 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:11.880 It's all good. It's wonderful. But the bad news is, 382 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:14.559 you know, like I said, more and more people are 383 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:18.200 getting injured. So, and I hate to be contradictory, but 384 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:21.319 if you look at some of the greatest players some 385 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:26.440 probably almost all of the great players in previous generations, 386 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:29.960 you know, the Hogans and Sneeds and Trevinos and Nicholas's 387 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:32.839 and play I mean players like Gary's an exception, but 388 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:35.240 Johnny Miller, I mean, go on break down. None of 389 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:38.519 those guys worked out, you know, but they got their workouts. 390 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:42.319 They got their function by growing up naturally. They did 391 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:46.920 grow up playing Nintendo and Xbox and you know, sitting 392 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:48.920 in video and all this kind. I mean, I have 393 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:52.039 a teenage son and he comes up every night. Guess 394 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:54.839 where he gets his homework. It's online and they have 395 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:59.160 computers in the classrooms, so we're producing I believe the 396 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:01.559 sickest generation I think in this in the history of 397 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:04.400 the industrialized world. I really believe that. And you can 398 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:07.440 see it. And what are we seeing? More and more 399 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:09.799 back surgeries? Like I said a minute ago, I mean, 400 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:12.759 it's really it's really kind of scary. 401 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:16.480