Archive for February, 2008

A Valuable Golf Exercise In Your Office When You Have A Moment

Golf exercise is not necessarily in a gym. Getting creative with what you have can make all the difference and have a very positive impact on your game.

Even extremely busy executives can get 15 seconds at a time while seated at their computer or work station in the office, for some golf exercise.

There are actually many different stretch golf exercises you can get done in your office, here is one.

I call it the seated twist golf exercise. Sit upright in your chair with your chest high and back straight. Reach behind you with one arm, which will rotate your upper body. While staying erect, twist as far as you can go and hold. You can then twist the other way and repeat.

Go both sides 2-3 times, holding for 10 seconds. This is a very effective golf exercise for eliminating or even reducing back pain and at the same time tremendously

Bass Fishing - Recreation or Obsession

First of all, we need to look at the word … recreation. When I break it down, it comes out re-creation.

What this means to me is a re-creating of myself; a way to get away from it all and do some soul searching and some thinking and … re-create my ideas, inspirations and motivations; a break in the pattern that allows me to reconsider things in my life and make adjustments.

But the term is large. Typically, recreation means activity. What do you do for recreation? Watch TV? Garden? Go out to restaurants or bars? What?

It implies relaxation. It implies a way to get away from the normal grind and have an element of divergence; have some fun and forget it all.

Not so for the bass fisherman.

I know I have mentioned to people that I went fishing and they said, “Oh, that sounds relaxing.”

What is relaxing about bass fishing? Probably nothing.

There

Bass Fishing Watch Out For the Gators!

Lakes in certain parts of the country contain more than something you want in your livewell. Alligators. They can be no more obvious than a rock or a log, so be careful. You want to get a bite, not get bit.

Let me share one of my bass fishing experiences with you.

This is bayou country. When I go to the lakes south of Houston, I have to watch for gators. So I’m always keeping an eyeball peeled for ‘em. But sometimes …

So last night I look and everything is clear so I walk down to the water and start bass fishing. After a few minutes, while I’m looking around I see this big log. This big log that gets oddly thinner at the end up on the shore and thicker in the water, and has odd bumps on it. Hold on .. that doesn’t look right. I look further up

How A Female Golfer Can Quickly And Easily Improve Distance And Accuracy

Female golfers, like their male counter parts are looking for quick and easy ways to improve their distance and accuracy. I wish I had the “magic bullet” to accomplish this overnight, but that’s not possibleeven if you see it in an advertisement.

I want to ask you a question.

What swings your club? This isn’t a trick question, but the answer is one you need to realize in order to improve your current golf game.

What was your answer? I’ll cut to the chase and tell you it’s your BODY!

Your body swings the clubnothing else!

Do you agree? If so, are you currently working on your body? What I mean isare you focusing on improving your strength and flexibility specific to golf?

If not, you may be frustrated with your golf game for a LONG time to come. It’s unfortunate, but most golfers (male, female and juniors) don’t take this approach.

Realizing golf is a physical

Martial Arts

Traditionally, people trained in Martial Arts in order to utilized their skills as
a form of attack and defense in both armed and unarmed combat. Today,
people train in Martial Arts in order to keep fit, as a form of meditation, to
learn self-discipline and as a competitive sport.

Although Western culture associates Martial Arts with Asian countries,
many countries developed their own Martial Arts as a form of military
defense, prior to modern technology. There are many different styles of
Marital Arts, such as Ju Jitsu, Tai Chi and Karate.

All styles of Martial Arts follow a system of teaching. During teaching, a
student is taught a series of forms. These forms, once learnt, help the
student to develop a technique that they can then utilize when needed.
There are also different levels of training that a student can progress
through, once they have mastered the first level.

All students

Fitness For Golf Is The Key To Rejuvenating Your Golf Game

Fitness for golf is prevalent at every level. You hear about it all the time on the television and even teaching pros are talking more about the importance of fitness for golf.

The reason being is the belief that your ‘physical limitations’ are keeping you from optimal swing mechanics, power, distance and accuracy.

For the aging golfer this is most prevalent.

Without a golf-specific exercise program, it is virtually impossible to maintain and/or improve swing mechanics. The human body declines rapidly without stress being put on it.

What I meanis muscles and bones need stress and pressure on them to remain strong, stable and injury-free. Without this stressthe body weakens and breaks down quicklyresulting in a rapid decline in strength and flexibility.

This is death to your golf swing!

The old adage - “use it or lose it” is very true. Haven’t you experienced a time when you were too busy with family obligations, work commitments

How To Select A Unique Golf Gift

To select a truly unique golf gift for somebody, it will help a great deal if you know their golf game intimately.

There are numerous golf products in the market these days and many of them have been promoted very cleverly and aggressively in the market. The result is that many golfers will show you garages that are full of products that did not work for them. Sadly these products have hardly improved their games. In some cases some aspects of their golf game even get worse.

To select a unique golf gift that will help the recipient and end up being the sort of unique golf gift that they never forget, you may need some help from a golf conditioning and exercise expert.

In selecting your unique golf gift, you will need to be very specific about the particular area of the person’s game that needs to be improved.

The golf swing alone

Local Bass Fishing

If you are like me, you love to fish at the drop of a hat. While I do plan fishing trips, I also like to go on a whim.

Sometimes the urge strikes out of nowhere and I get up and go right now. Or, maybe I want to stop on the way home from work (or go instead of work like any bass fisherman worth his salt would do).

But then again, living in the city, there are not many places I can get to quickly enough to accommodate this habit. Most of the lakes in my area are over an hour’s drive away, which is reasonable unless you are in a hurry.

After being frustrated by this, I decided to start a campaign to help scratch the itch a little bit. Talking to people didn’t help much because very few of them were privy to any local fishing holes. So I

Womens Golf Performance Is Directly Related To Strength

Womens golf is not much different than mens golf, but there is one issue that comes to mind with women golfers.

Strength!

This is not always the case, but more times than not it is. The reason isthat women golfers don’t focus on improving their strength when it comes to playing better golf. They’ll hit more balls, take more lessons and even buy an instructional video or two.

Does this sound like you?

When you think of the golf swing; it takes a great amount of upper body strength to control the clubhead during the swing. Especially as you get to the longer irons and the driver.

The KEY to hitting longer drives, that go straighter more often is consistent swing mechanics. The ONLY way to duplicate optimal golf swing mechanics is to have a higher level of upper body strength ; especially in the shoulders and upper back muscles.

If you’re weak in the above

Before Purchasing A Gift For A Golfer…Ask Yourself These 3 Questions

It should be rather clear to everybody that the gift a golfer will ordinarily appreciate the most, is the one that improves their game. Most golfers are constantly looking for ways to improve on their game. It usually dominates their every thought when they are on the course and many times when they are off it.

Before selecting a gift for a golfer, it is useful to ask yourself the following 3 questions and to get adequate answers for them. Remember that this is a task that is much more complicated than it may seem at first sight.

A) What is their particular golf weakness?

What is the particular weakness of the golfer who you are seeking a gift for? The fact that they have a problem with their golf swing is not goof enough. What particular aspect of the swing? Do they tend to slice the ball or does their swing weakness

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