People ask whether speed sticks, heavier clubs, or heavy balls work. That is not really the problem.
Those tools can absolutely be useful. Published golf training research supports both weighted-club work and resistance training methods to improve clubhead speed.
What are you actually trying to train?
That is where Speed Sticks for Repeat Training gets more interesting.
The point is simple. If adding mass to the implement can change force output, then ignoring the mass of the person swinging it is a strange decision. Getting stronger still matters. Adding useful body mass may matter too. There is nothing wrong with training the body harder, as long as you come back and express it in the actual pattern.
But Speed Sticks for repeat training is not standard swing-speed practice.
It is not about setting up perfectly, taking one swing, resetting, and doing it again, as in a normal, heavier-club protocol. If you do that, you lose what makes the method useful. The swing may still be explosive, but it is no longer cyclic.
That is the whole distinction.
What Explosive Repeat Training With Speed Sticks is actually training
In the video’s example, the stick is used without the usual sequence because the target is not skill rehearsal. The target is a cardiovascular and peripheral cardiovascular adaptation in rotation. That matters more than people think.
If you want a local training effect, the tissue doing the work matters. Exercise-induced mitochondrial adaptations occur in the trained skeletal muscle, and upper-body sprint-interval work has been shown to improve upper-body aerobic capacity and strength. That does not, by itself, prove golf-specific transfer, but it does support my broader point that explosive conditioning can be trained in a region- and pattern-specific way.
So when I talk about explosive repeat training with speed sticks, I am not talking about pretending a range session is a round of golf.
I am talking about building the ability to keep producing quality rotary efforts under a specific work-rest structure.
Why this matters for golfers
A round of golf usually places little cardiovascular demand on the body, but practice can.
You might hit 50 hard balls in a few minutes on the range. You are obviously not doing that in the course. Those are two different environments with different workloads. If your training ignores that difference, then you are probably mixing up skill practice and physical preparation.
That is the use case I am pointing to.
How I demonstrate Speed Sticks for repeat training
In the video’s example, the demonstration is straightforward.
If you are a lefty, you start lefty and keep swinging without resetting your hands between reps. Then you go righty with the opposite grip, again without stopping to rebuild the setup each time. The point is to preserve the work’s cyclical nature.
To note, most golfers probably should not exceed 10 seconds. A highly trained rotary athlete might go to 15 seconds. Either way, the rule is the same: the last swing has to be as honest as the first one.
If 10 seconds of work takes you to the right place, rest for 50 seconds and repeat.
That framework also aligns with the broader logic in the repeated-sprint training literature, where short maximal efforts are paired with short recoveries to train repeat-effort capacity rather than a single isolated action. Aerobic fitness also appears to help recovery between repeated maximal bouts.
The mistake to avoid
The mistake is thinking the tool tells you the adaptation; it does not.
A speed stick can be used for swing-speed work. It can also be used for Speed Sticks for repeat training. Those are not the same session, intent, or outcome.
Train the adaptation you want and do not hide behind the implement.
Watch the video and go deeper
If you want to see me demonstrate Explosive Repeat Training With Speed Sticks, watch the full YouTube video on my channel titled exactly that.
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FAQ
Can you use a speed stick for explosive cyclic repeat work?
Yes, but not the same way you would use it for normal swing-speed training. The moment you reset every rep, you change the training effect.
What does Explosive Repeat Training With Speed Sticks train?
Speed Sticks for repeat training is used to target cardiovascular and peripheral cardiovascular adaptations in rotation, not just swing skill.
How long should the work interval be?
Most golfers probably should not exceed 10 seconds, while a highly trained rotary athlete might go to 15 seconds, provided the quality of the effort stays high throughout.
