Having enough energy to be able to finish a strong round is important when striving to keep a low score. Eating the right foods before and during your round plays an important part in that strong finish. When we look at nutrition for athletes, we tend to look at the pre-game meal as the most… Continue reading What Is Best To Eat During My Golf Round?
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How Food Affects Your Behavior
With Labor Day around the corner and the backyard barbecues continue, consider what you’re eating. Maybe you don’t normally eat BBQ or drink alcohol. But summer and fall football games do something to all of us. Summer makes us feel young and indispensable. Therefore, our diets revert back to a time when we either didn’t… Continue reading How Food Affects Your Behavior
For a Stronger Core Stay on the Floor
If you’ve stepped into a gym in the last 10 years you’ve most likely noticed those big rubber balls known as exercise balls (or stability balls or Swiss balls). In my experience, most times these balls sit all alone in the corner unless they were being used in a special core or ball class, or… Continue reading For a Stronger Core Stay on the Floor
Preshot Visualization Routine
A Preshot Visualization Routineis an absolutely essential component to making a good swing. Not integrating a visualization process into your preshot routine leaves your mind unfocused and open to many lapses of attention. Not what you want before making your swing. What do you do while you prepare to shoot? Does your preshot routine include… Continue reading Preshot Visualization Routine
Oh My Aching Back!
The pre round cocktail is routine. Tee time 8:15am, the power rub of ultra strength vanishing scent ointment, two over the counter muscle relaxers in by 7:30am. Are you an individual who is suffering from lower back pain? Is your lower back stiff and sore when you get out of bed and head off to… Continue reading Oh My Aching Back!
Meet Bob
A business executive, who enjoys the game of golf. Bob financially, is in the position to play more golf, but found himself 10 to 15 lbs overweight and physically starting to break down. Bob realized that one of the first parts of his game to go was his drives. Once he turned 50 years old,his… Continue reading Meet Bob
Hit The Ball Straighter With Greater Flexibility
Stretching is performed for the specific purpose of increasing the functional range of motion around the joints affecting the golf swing. Flexibility is a key component for a powerful swing. Limited range of motion contributes to improper mechanics, fatigue, and injury. Without flexibility training your muscles will shorten over time and so will your swing.… Continue reading Hit The Ball Straighter With Greater Flexibility
You Need More Flexibility…Period
Golf-specific workout exercises produce greater flexibility. Greater flexibility for middle-aged and seasoned golfers will improve their games, and offer a host of additional benefits. The top five benefits are: Turn – proper coiling of the body and the ability to make a complete turn will produce your maximum distance. Flexibility exercises as a part of… Continue reading You Need More Flexibility…Period
Performance Anxiety in Golf
A typical day on the golf course…. A few beads of sweat rolled off his brow as he lined up his 6 footer for par on the first hole. With a half committed putt, the result equaled the quality of his stroke: weak and short. “Geez, I’m shakin’ inside. I’m frickin’ nervous” he says to… Continue reading Performance Anxiety in Golf
Developing Proper Technique Through Golf Fitness
Millions of dollars are spent each year on golf lessons in the United States alone. Even with this large investment, the average North American handicap has not changed in the past 30 years. We must consider the fact that teaching of the golf swing has concentrated on changing only the aesthetic product (movement) without developing… Continue reading Developing Proper Technique Through Golf Fitness