Golf Fitness For More Focused
And Frequent Play
Fatigue and 3 cold beers is why most players lose concentration.
Considering that a round of golf takes at least 4 hours to play or 6 if you get a weekend tee time (love those), it’s easy to see how fatigue and sharing 3 tall cool ones with your buddies might affect your focus.
Ya think?
A 10 handicap golfer will take about 50 hard swings and another 50 – 70 practice swings per round with a club that weights slightly less that a baseball bat. This doesn’t include all the walking or other energy sucking activities you may endure in a round. Like pretending you are in the hammer toss at the Olympics when you hurl your club into the golf course wilderness after a bad shot, or standing on the tee cursing like a sailor at the top of your lungs at the unseen and cruel golf Gods…and yes, screaming like a Banshee does consume energy.
A workout regimen that increases aerobic capacity will increase your endurance and will allow you to maintain focus throughout your entire 18 hole day. It will also allow you to play 3 or 4 days in a row…and all golfers want that, right!
Let me ask you some personal questions.
Have you found yourself selecting the wrong club on the 15th due to lack of focus?
Do you habitually “fade away” on the last few holes and just force yourself to finish?
Have you lost your competitive edge with your bad, back nine shot decisions?
It may well be you have poor cardiovascular endurance.
Every golfer needs some form of cardiovascular conditioning in order to maintain energy and keep their focus throughout the round.
With a little exercise, you can enjoy your full game of golf without having your game fall apart on the last few holes. Seriously, I see this happen all the time and I am sure you do too! How many times have you seen guys that just couldn’t finish strong?
They just need to bogey the last 3 holes to break 90 and they shoot 95 instead – happens all the time – right?
Think focus and conditioning may have a part in that?
Well, you’re right!
Mounting research shows that exercise is good for the brain.
While much of the research on the effects of exercise on the mind has focused on countering dementia in seniors, recent studies show that kids and adults can get a brain boost as well.
Better cardiovascular fitness can increase cognitive ability by 10 to 20 percent – way more than enough to notice a difference in concentration, focus, stress management and mood.
More than enough to make a difference on that important putt, that important par 3 or the back nine break downs. More than enough to break 90, or 80 – or whatever your dream score may be.
I have had many clients begin a program because they now have time to play golf 3 to 4 days a week, but their bodies are to stiff and sore and achy to play more than 1 day a week much less 2 days in a row.
Current scientific research points toward muscle damage as the culprit of muscle soreness. When you play a round of golf, you cause “microtrauma” to the muscle fibers — localized damage to the muscle fiber membranes and contractile elements.
Over the next 24 hours, the damaged muscle becomes swollen and sore. Chemical irritants are released from the damaged muscles and can irritate pain receptors. In addition to the injured fibers, there is increased blood flow from increased activity to the muscle, causing a swelling of the muscle tissues, which causes enough pressure to stimulate pain receptors. Instead of having free-moving muscle fibers the next morning, you have fibers that are fatigued, have microscopic tears and are swollen.
The cure for muscle soreness is relatively simple: If you gradually increase the strength and endurance of your muscles and you warm up properly before you play golf, you will not get as sore – make sense?
Remember that golfing uses muscles that are not used regularly in your daily life. It all comes down to something called specificity of training; where your muscles, tendons and ligaments adapt to a particular sport, activity or movement pattern over a period of time.
In addition, as we grow older, our muscles and surrounding tissues also have less elasticity, so we tend to feel soreness and tightness more quickly than we did in high school. A golfer who stays in shape — even golfers in their 50s and 60s — should be able to play a several rounds of golf a week with no or minimal muscular soreness.
How about you?
Do you want to play more golf and play it with more focus?
Do you finally want to break your dream score? Do you want to experience the energy that allows you to finish the round strong, even if you do toss 3 cold ones with your buds?
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