Athletic Motion Golf- The Podcast · Mike Granato and Shaun Webb

He Gained 28 Yards of Driver Carry in 4 Weeks (Real Speed Training Results)

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Kyle says his driver ball speed jumped from 148 to 159 and carry increased by 27.5 yards.

Mike opens on speed. He brings on Kyle, a real golfer with a clinical pharmacist's habit of tracking details, and the whole thing starts like a small audit of whether the work actually paid off. The log matters. Kyle explains that he built a Google doc to record each HITS session, his session speed, and his own driver speed, then shared it with Mike so they could watch the changes as they happened. That is the useful part. Instead of asking for a vibe check, the conversation keeps returning to what moved and by how much over the month. The air-swing chapter is messy. Kyle says he tried that approach before, even though he was always chasing more distance and kept seeing the usual Instagram noise about what should work. Vegas made it worse. With rocks instead of grass, concrete near a hot tub, and a fence with houses only ten feet away, the drill felt less like training and more like trying not to break something. He was not relaxed. Kyle worried about losing the implement, about the weights flying off, and about the kind of bad contact that could send the club head or the load somewhere it did not belong. The result was plain. That earlier setup gave him zero clubhead-speed increase, and when he went to the range afterward the face stayed wide open and the misses ran far right. He is a drawer. He says the intent was never to look violent or overworked, just to find speed that still looked like a normal swing when the ball came off the face. The better feedback is simpler. With HITS, the conversation lands on the documented changes over the month, easier motion, and ball-speed numbers like 146 and 148 showing up when he warms up and lets the speed come without forcing it. Mike keeps the pitch grounded. By the end, he is pointing listeners toward hitsgolf.com, making the case that the real test is whether the speed shows up in the numbers and the ball keeps behaving.

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Speed claims carry more weight when the numbers are tracked.

The episode keeps circling back to speed, but what gives it weight is the record keeping around it. Kyle, a clinical pharmacist by training who works in the pharmaceutical industry, treats training like a study: he logs session speed and his own driver speed in a Google doc and…

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You want speed gains with documentation, not hype.

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