Answered some of your questions and added some more pics from today.

Best loft and postition I’ve been in. Very very happy!!!

Q. Great to hear that you are so satisfied with your camp in Dubai!

How are the results from the gym training and eating coming? Getting stronger is great of course but are you gaining any nice muscle mass to put behind the drives next year?

What is your weight now compared to say a year ago?

A. My weight has dropped from 81 kilos to 74, but my strength and flexibility had improved massively. In June, I did 8 chin-ups, now I do 19. Have the same kind of improvement for all exercises. I think I dropped about 10-11 kilos of fat and gained some muscles. That´s what I hope at least. 

Q. How does that work out for you, practising golf after a gym session? I’m usually too tired afterwards and feel like I have no control over my body. I always have to wait until the day after, but then my body has recovered and I feel great.

A. I agree with you. Sometimes I feel really tired and sometimes it’s fine. I don’t mind it when practicing after but I would never go hard in the weight room before playing a tournament round. 

Good set Kotte.

Q. Hey Alex great chin-ups 18 reps , that must be your new record , remember you couldnt get 12 out before and edfors was beating you . I want to see what you can do on the bench press . Keep up the training ..

A. Thanks Dude!!! My records is actually 19:) Yeah, 8 last summer and 12 after a little while and now 19…So happy! More happy than making birdies…Maybe not.

Q. Players usually divide themselves into those who say they play by feel and those who are more technically minded. I should imagine that to be a top 50 in the world pro like yourself both are as important… great technique providing a foundation to be able to just play by feel when it really matters.. stood on the 18th tee with just a par needed to win your first major for example! Then again, maybe the best thing to think about at a moment like that is something boring and technical ”must turn my right hip towards the target on the backswing” instead of thinking about all the ways to make bogey! You are a great young talent so when the inevitable moment comes, what will you be thinking about Alex?

A. I will hopefully just play but I will be very nervous. I love being nervous though. Maybe that’s weird but I would stop playing golf if I wasn’t. 

Q. Hi Alex,

Great blog, love it!

I have a question, when you train in the gym whats the main purpose of the exercise? Also what muscles do you focus your training on that you feel is extra important?

A. I want to feel strong in my set-up and be able to swing without any restrictions such as not strong or flexible enough. I also want to be strong enough to not get injured when practicing a lot. Back, legs, shoulders and core are the most important muscles…pretty much the whole body.  

Kotte trains with a golf ball curve.

Q. Is the americas cup katamaran boats ??

A. Alinghi’s boat is but the American’s boat is a trimaran. The boats are amazing. 

Q. Hi Alex! Nice workout video. Look forward to see the whole snatch and clean&jerk movements. One question regarding the second phase of your first excersise. I have never seen that one. I usually do a ”thruster”, a front squat combined with a press. Are 5-6 reps a set normal?

Last question is to Pierre. What do you think about Crossfit as a golf oriented workout scheme?

Thanks for an awesome blog 

//Johan

A. Yeah, the second one is a pretty ”full” exercise to get the whole body stronger. It’s fun when you get it going fast all the way up to the top. It’s hard though. Edfors does it extremely well! We do 6 reps in the first set and then we go down to 3 reps and increase the weight. I think Pierre would like the cross-fit training. We usually have a little rest in between each set to have top quality each set. I don’t know exactly how cross fit training works but I think it’s less rest in between sets.

Sweet smelling gym…NOT. 

Q. What information does the Swingyde give a world-class guy like you? I can understand it gives us hackers a feel for maintaining the upper hand radial deviation in the downswing… Perhaps a feel for the correct direction of the wristcxxx in the backswing? Over the ”anatomical snuffbox)”. It seems you and Pete C want the upper hand fully cxxxxed rather early in the BS, before the upper arm is level to the ground (before P3, in Morad terms)

A. I use the swing guide to set the wrist correct in the backswing. I have a tendency to decrease the loft in the backswing so it’s a great tool for me. You need to be careful when using it so you know exactly where to put it. I put it just left of center of shaft. I think it doesn’t matter much when you set the wrists in the full swing. It’s more important when pitching. I try to have a little later wristaction then. 

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