Logan Edwards PT, DPT

It is important to slowly ramp up your throwing volume, which is exactly what I did not do.

Active recovery like this should look like gentle movement to push through some discomfort, but never push through pain

Using breath to improve mid back rotation for disc golf

Active vs passive mid back rotation in professional disc golfers

This is one of the screens I do on my athletes to see how their active control over their mobility is and how much passive motion they have as well.

If you want to see how I prescribe exercises based on this test hit that follow button!

Disc golf shouldn’t cause back pain let me explain why it happens and a simple way you can start getting ahead of it!

Plyometrics is the first place to start for speed and power development. If AB wanted to throw further I would have him start here. (Obviously I have no idea why his training looks like)

Upper and lower body plyos help produce force into the ground and into the disc. From there the possibilities are endless in drilling force production and explosiveness through throwing.

Putting everything together with this drill to build shoulder strength and drill mid back rotation.

If working with athletes has taught me one thing it is that there are so many different ways to accomplish the same task.

There is no one size fit all Disc Golf form. The most important thing is force, production, and timing when it comes to any throwing, sprinting, jumping activity if you can’t effectively produce force from the ground in through the object that you are throwing, then you are leaving power and distance on the table.

 Strength, training and speed training is one of the most overlooked things that I see in the Disc Golf world . Build strength and get fast and I bet you’ll see distance skyrocket

In my last two videos I talked about the shoulders needed range of motion for the wind up and follow through when throwing sidearm.

This in my opinion is even more important. Being able to rotate through your mid back is the keystone of being able to throw pain free. Without adequate mid back motion you’re going to put excess stress through your shoulder potentially setting yourself up for injury down the line.

In my last video, I talked about the importance of having adequate shoulder, external rotation range of motion, and showed an exercise to improve that motion

In this video, we’re going to talk about an exercise to build control over that motion so that way the new motion really sticks, and we have control as we throw to avoid extra stress on the shoulder.