The itsy-bitsy Spider unveiled: Sean Cochran's ultimate stretch.

The Spider has gone public. Now I can write this blog. Yay for me. Sean Cochran’s book and I have been like Thelma and Louise this last week. Of all the exercises that Phil Mickelson’s conditioning coach introduced to me, the Spider is the most demanding and the one I cannot, simply cannot, envision Phil doing. I am a lean guy, 5′9″ and 170 pounds, and I cannot do more than ten spiders before collapsing in agony (or as Sean likes to put it, “own level of tolerance.") I feel as though I’ve had a speculum inserted through my belly button, into my core.

Let me tell you that my hamstrings have never felt as elongated or as powerful as they do after I spider around. I’m Peter Parker! This mix of strength and conditioning has me champing at the bit for the start of golf season. I’ll keep you posted as Winter shakes hands with Spring in the Northeast.