Do you need a golf fitness instructor

Do You Need A Golf Fitness Instructor?

It is sheer common sense that you have to have a certain level of physical fitness in order to participate in any sporting activities. Then playing a good game of enjoyable golf is certainly no exception. There is still this outdated thinking that you can play a good game of golf without being fit which is at best, uninformed history. You are at a great disadvantage if you are unfit and your opponent is and you can bet most likely that you will not be the one winning the beautiful game.

You see, times have changed and so do modern day golfers, especially the professional ones who are incorporating physical fitness training in their golf training program in order to power up their drives and swing. If you love the game of golf and do not have a golf fitness instructor or a fitness personal trainer, then you are missing out on a lot. If the professionals are doing it, there must be good reasons for that right?

So why do you have to be physically fit for a game of golf? Well, if you are a keen golfer, I am sure that you know you need powerful strength, endurance stamina and good physical fitness to play the game well. You need to power up your drives to cover long distances and take precise shots. Although not everybody is aware of it, having a good golf fitness instructor is an option that will help you to do just that. Even better, if your fitness instructor is also a golf player too who understands the dynamics and mechanics of the game and so can train you on the sport’s specific.

So are you playing golf to win or to lose. Dumb question to ask, isn’t it? Of course it is to win. However, you can’t be just relying on mere luck to win, especially when there are stakes involved, right? So you can be a cut above the other players when you have golf fitness as you will stronger, have more confidence and good balance to drive and swing your golf balls far and hard.

Using the services of a professional golf fitness instructor can transform your losing games into winning ones. The training programs and golf training instructions will help you to build lean muscles, gain stamina and strength which you will be using to power up your hits.

When you are in a golf game, you need stamina, concentration, focus, strength and flexibility. Your golf fitness instructor will devise sports specific fitness programs for you that will help you to achieve all this and in time, you will be improving on your hits, win more matches than you had ever thought of. Isn’t that why, most if not all world class professional golfers hire golf fitness personal trainers as part of their training program?

Of if you want to play better golf, then you will want to find the best and yet most affordable program. So choose your instructor wisely.

Coaching and competition

Coaching and Competition

For every player and every coach, there is a specific goal to playing the sport. At times this may be for physical fitness and at others it may just be for fun. No matter what the intentions of the team and the leaders, there comes a time when competition and tournaments will be a part of the agenda. If you are focused on reaching this goal, you want to make sure that everyone goes prepared.

When you begin to focus on a competition, you will want to begin by preparing your players for the level of success that they will be going to. This will need to happen both physically and mentally. In order to prepare players physically, you will want to drill them on the different basic techniques that will help them. This will especially be effective if you focus on the areas where the team is not as strong. By drilling the team this way, you will be able to add in different techniques and make adjustments to the lining of the team.

From here, you will want to make sure that your team is mentally prepared to meet the challenge of the competition and tournament. You can first do this by making sure everyone is focused on the same goal. Keeping them motivated, and allowing them to see the possibilities for success through determination will help them to go into the tournament with their eye on the trophy.

If you want to make sure that your team learns what challenges are about, then focusing on competitions and tournaments and how to win them is one way to give them this skill. After this, you will be able to prepare them mentally and physically for the level that they will be going to. The process of this will help to enhance their skills and abilities both in the sport and within their personal lives.

Fitness, nutrition and training for triathletes

Fitness, Nutrition and Training For Triathletes

How fit are you?

Fitness is transient and you’ll lose it if you’re not active for several months. There may be latent fitness below the surface, but it takes time to regain. If you’ve never done regular sports training, it can get pushed aside by other commitments. However, if you commit to being a triathlete, it will become central to your lifestyle and eventually a natural part of life.

Healthy goals

Being healthy is more than training regularly, getting a personal best (PB) or swimming a mile in less than 30 minutes. If losing weight has always been an elusive goal, make it a parallel one to completing a triathlon, so weight loss is a coincidental benefit rather than the sole reason for training. conquering past hurdles provides the motivation to succeed. Write down anything that may have prevented you achieving a goal and post this list somewhere prominent to remind yourself of past gremlins.

Diet or disaster

Is your past littered with failed diets, poor eating routines and a lack of knowledge on what to eat? There is so much information on diet, but few people are able to control what they eat, often due to the poor choices on offer. Your training is fuelled by your diet and you are rebuilt from the foods you eat. Quite literally, you are made of what you eat. If poor foods are coming in, the recovery, progress and potential of the human body are massively impaired. Like a formula one engine, you need high-octane fuel if you are to perform well.

Make a list of foods that you have over-consumed or relied upon, then another list of foods that are healthy and you love eating – diet is as much an emotional element as a functional one. To become a triathlete you need to eat well, and this aide memoire can help you to develop new healthier eating habits.

Fitness spikes and troughs

If you have been active in one sport you already make time to train, probably know how your body works and can reduce your single-sport time commitment as your two new sports provide training variety. If you have had ups and downs in your fitness and lack consistency, it’s vital to find out what causes your enthusiasm to wane to inactivity. Master your inactivity gremlins and you can keep the training going long after previous get-fit campaigns failed. Common causes include lacking a goal, doing too much too soon, having unrealistic expectations and Impatience. Keep it varied, enjoy your training and you will stay enthusiastic.

Carrot or stick?

You probably have reasons why you do most things but you never really put too much thought into them – if we over-analyzed every action it would paralyse us. So look back and see if your actions have been based on reward (carrot) or possible reprimand (stick). Do you need to be pushed to do something or reined in when you get going due to over-enthusiasm?

How about a proper golf swing

How About a Proper Golf Swing

My golfing buddies have been saying lately that they do not think that I have a proper golf swing. I have not been playing that long and so just felt pleased that I was having a go and enjoying it and had not really thought that much about my actual swing and even about improving any aspects of my game really. One of them explained to me how important the swing is to the game as a whole and it really made a lot of sense.

I now understand that if there is one area of my game that I have time to work extra hard on, then this is the one. It has really got me thinking about whether I should be spending some time practicing my golf. I play fairly regularly but have not really thought about doing any specific golf exercises as part of my daily exercise routine.

I feel like my general fitness is good and that helps me with the stamina I need to get round the course and I do warm up and down with them when we play and they have showed me which muscles it is important to work on, but I have not been doing any other golf exercises.

My buddies all do some specific golf stretches and suggested that by strengthening my core muscles and improving my flexibility I should be able to improve and get the proper golf swing that I am now striving for. I have asked them about the exercises that they do and they all do different ones, so I was a bit confused as to what to do myself.

I have therefore been reading quite a lot of different websites to get some idea of what types of exercises I should be doing and trying to work out which will be the best for me. It can be quite tricky as they do not always have similar exercises and some of them look quite complicated.

Also it is not always easy to tell who has written the website and what expertise they have in the area of golf exercises. I do not want to be taking advice from someone who is not an expert in their field as I am aware of how important it is to exercise safely and properly.

I decided, therefore, to choose a small selection and try them for a few weeks and see if there is any noticeable improvement. I will then try to work out whether certain exercises have been more effective than other and concentrate on doing those and try some others in place of the ineffective ones.

This will take some time, but I assume that because each of us is different we will all need slightly different exercises to help us. I am hoping that by doing this, I can get together a personal exercise plan which will not only help with my overall fitness but will also help me to achieve a proper golf swing. Why don’t you give it a try and see if it helps you too?

Triathlon basics – getting started

Triathlon Basics – Getting Started

The majority of first time triathletes will ofter start with one of the short sprint type events, such as a half mile swing, a 12 to 16 km bike ride and a 5 km run to finish. There certainly are shorter events, but this one is good to set as a goal to get yourself into good shape. After completing a short event, the world is your oyster. Consider training for an Olympic, Half -Iron or full Ironman event.

It’s worth finding an event that is fairly local, and far enough in the distance to give you time to put in a good training effort. The worst thing can be leaving it to late before starting your training. Some people can ‘wing it’ if they’re already fairly fit, but you’ll get far more satisfaction knowing that you trained properly and that your results demonstrate that. Choose a race that is set up with first timers considered.

Setting your Goals

Depending on how your training went and your fitness levels on the day, you goal may be to just finish the event, or to complete it within a certain time. You need to stay positive and focus on what you will achieve, NOT what you may not. A positive outlook will make the event fun, and help with your performance too.

Make the goals about you, not about anyone else. Forget the other competitors, treat the whole event as your own personal challenge. What anybody else does or doesn’t do is irrelevant in these formative stages of your triathlon career.

If you do want to start setting time goals, it’s a good idea to set these for your training days, not for the actual event. There are a multitude of factors that will effect your performance on the day, and if you fail to achieve some lofty goal, your confidence will be dented. The idea is to succeed on the day, giving you confidence to move on with your training and to set high goals for next time. It’s amazing that the power of your mind really can make or break you, set yourself up for success, not failure.

I hope this article has given you a little background on how to become a triathlete. In the next article I will be looking at the equipment needs for successful triathlon competition. Shoes, bikes, clothing etc. It’s certainly possible to do all of this on a budget, so don’t panic, it’ll all become clear very soon.