If you grew up playing baseball, you probably heard the old cliche: “Mass equals gas”. It’s often preached to pitchers who are looking to gain some extra miles-per-hour on the radar gun — and it seems this gospel has made its way into golf too.
You might remember when Bryson DeChambeau beefed up by lifting big and slugging protein shakes seven times a day. Simply put, he was bulking up to bomb it — and it worked.
From 2019 to 2020, DeChambeau added 22 yards to his average driving distance and led the PGA Tour in the category. Essentially proving that powerlifting and a high-protein diet can increase your length off the tee.
But there’s a new twist to DeChambeau’s story: he’s slimmed down since. But, that doesn’t mean that he’s lost his distance. If anything, it seems a leaner DeChambeau is still launching the ball. So how does a “less bulky” Bryson still nuke it?
In a recent interview, he finally spilled the secret.
“I feel like I’m almost just as strong, if not stronger now, and when I go at it, I can get the 200 mile-an-hour ball speed very easily right now,” DeChambeau says.
“I’ve kept it just because I hit golf balls every day and I speed train every once in a while,” DeChambeau says. “It wasn’t really more the diet rather than speed training, hitting 100 balls three times a week as fast as I can with the driver, and just keep pushing the limits with a Foresight monitor telling me how fast I was hitting it.”
So it seems the key to distance off the tee lies less in your diet and more in the elbow grease — or the hard work DeChambeau has put into speed training.
While DeChambeau likely has experts helping him design the optimal speed training plan, alongside his regimen of hitting 100 balls three times a week, you don’t need them begin your own distance journey. There are plenty of speed training systems, like the one below, that can help you boost your clubhead speed and start launching the ball farther in no time.
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