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Golf Resistance Training - Helping To Make
You A Better Player
by: Simon Ashton
Being a good golfer requires a good level of fitness. Remember,
there are 18 long holes you have to play! Thats a lot of walking,
and swinging and carrying of your bags. If you really want
to improve your score, enjoy the game more and in general
feel fitter and healthier, then you need to conside golf resistance
training. Regardless of your age, if you start to use resistance
traiing on a regular basis, this can help you get into better
shape and even help stave off disease.
For the golfers who want to add more power to their swing,
whilst also giving their stamina and endurance a boost to
complete all the 18 holes should consider resistance training,
also known as strength training. This is also a great way
to loosen up muscles, preventing injury whilst out there on
the golf course. Resistance training simply involves lifting
weights or working out with the resistance machines at a gym.
If you want to, you can also do the resistance training at
home, just by using everyday items that you already own.
To begin with, it is important that you speak with a doctor
before undergoing any form of extra excercise. Put simply,
resistance training, as previously described should be considered
as "strong medicine", if only because you could hurt yourself
if you are unsure of what you're doing or you aren't sure
of what level you should undertake when you are working out.
Providing your doctor, once you have been checked out, gives
you the go ahead, you have another important decision to make.
To join a gym or not to join a gym?
This problem can be solved very easily with a little leg
work, so to speak. Find out where the gyms in your local area
are situated, then try to visit each one of them. Most gyms
will offer a free tour, possibly even a free workout to make
sure that they offer the right facilities and equipment for
your needs. By taking advantage of the different offers that
each gym makes before you join, it will allow you to asses
which, if any, is the right gym for you.
If you decide that you don't feel comfortable joining a gym
and wouldn't like to be attending on a regular basis, or if
you don't want to be paying the monthly fees for the membership
then you could also consider working out at home by doing
the golf resistance training their instead.
You may want to make the initial one off investment of buying
dumbbells and gym equipment that you could set up in a spare
room, therefore eliminating the need for an ongoing monthly
payment to the gym. To begin with, though, you may not even
need to purchase any of these to do your resistance training.
One example of a great excercise for your legs involves just
squatting down. This particularly, will work the backs of
your legs. Using just the wall for support to lean against,
or do it in the middle of the room if you so wish, for a harder
work out. Start by placing your hands on your hips, your feet
slightly apart, lining up directly under your shoulders.Lower
your body down, as far as is comfortable or until your thighs
are at a 90 degree angle to the floor, bending you knees,
whilst keeping your back straight. Then push up slowly. Repeat
until you feel it is starting to work the muscles in your
legs.
Another resistance training excercise for golfers is to use
a chair. Sit on the chair, scoot the front seat whilst keeping
your back straight. Then with one foot firmly placed on the
floor, straighten your other leg until it is now horizontal,
stretched out, parallel to the ground. Now repeat this excercise
with the other leg, giving both legs a thorough resistance
training work out.
A simple resistance training excercise for your arms involves
using just 2 cans or beans or soup, or what ever you have
at home in your cupboards. Sitting on a chair, with your arms
resting relaxed at your sides, a can in each hand, slowly
raise your arms, in an arc like direction. Moving your arms
upwards and outwards, stretched away from you, until they
are now parallel with the ground, pointing away from your
shoulders. Now slowly lower them down and repeat.
If you wanted to work both legs and arms at the same time.
Simply do both squats and arm raises at the same time. Standing
in the middle of the room, with your arms by your sides and
a can in each arm, begin to squat as described earlier, whilst
lowering your body down, being to raise your arms. This should
result in your arms being parellel with the ground at the
same moment as you are squated down. Slowly raise your body
and lower your arms at the same time. This should also result
in increased focus, co-ordination, as well as increased muscle
strength.
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About The Author
Simon Ashton is the founder of www.golf-equipment-instruction-guides.com.
A website created to give advice on purchasing the right
Golf Equipment and Instruction Guides on how best to
improve your game of golf.
Golf Equipment Instruction Guides aims to be an informative,
unbiased site for your daily golfing needs and news.
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