Off Season Golf Part 2: Distance = Strength
& Flex
Read
other Parts from the
Technology & Distance
series and Short Game
series here, Archives.
Email
me if you'd if there's anything you'd like to see discussed
or analyzed in
the next or future
newsletters. Now
on to this week's
topic.
I.
Which determines
how far you hit
it: Strength, Flexibility
or Both?
As
outlined in my last
newsletter, the "facts" of
aging are:
1.
strength and flexibility
decrease with age
2. endurance
and stamina decrease with
age
3. score increases with
age
4. distance decreases with
age
5. golfers peak in their
early 30s
So
in a fitness
program,
what is the most important:
Strength or Flexibility?
C.J. Thompson of the
University of Kansas
conducted a study in
2001 entitled, "Effect
of
Muscle Strength and Flexibility
on Club-Head Speed in
Older Golfer." Almost
half of North America's
golfers are over 50.
Thompson's study focused
on this group with an
average age of 65 years.
All the subjects of the
study
were given performance
measures of muscle strength,
range of motion and club
head speed testing.
From
his study, Thompson
concluded the following:
1. 46%
of the variance in
club head speed can
be explained
by fitness thus older
golfers cannot expect
fitness improvement
alone to hit it farther.
2. Strength
parameters such as
chest press, leg press,
lat pulldown, shoulder
press, bicep curl &
seated row all demonstrated
a significant relationship
with club head speed.
3. Trunk
rotation was the only
significantly related
flexibility parameter
to club head speed.
4. Muscle
strength may be more
important than flexibility
to increase club head
speed.
If you'd
like some more details
about this study, send
me an email.
The study was published
in Science
and Golf IV. View it here.
It is
clear from this study
and many others that
physical fitness is
an important aspect
to one playing golf
well.
If you are looking to improve
your game and feel you
need to improve your flexibility
and strength specific to
golf, I strongly recommend
Mike Pedersen's Golf Trainer
'Power Performance Progam'.
Mike has helped thousands
of golfers all over the
world improve their games
with his online golf fitness
program. It is like having
your own Golf Fitness Trainer,
but at a fraction of the
price. Click
here to go there now.
I highly recommend it.
Mike
has also just recently
made available an e-book,
called Ultimate
Golf Fitness Ebook, dedicated
to guiding you on your
own golf
fitness program. So,
if you are more of a
do-it-your-selfer, take
a look at his book. It
explains what to work
on and how to monitor
your progress.
A list of resources that have been used to produce this newsletter
can be found on my
website here.
The focus
of my site
is to utilize science
and math to lower
your score. New technology
is one
way to achieve this,
but to be honest,
the technology is
one small piece of
the puzzle.
To actually improve significantly,
we all need to:
1. Improve our swings using CD
Interactive, Hit
Down Dammit!
2. Learn how to swing simpler
like the Iron Byron
with the great coffee
table book, Swing
Machine Golf!
3. Improve our physical fitness
and strength.
The
Golf Trainer Power
Performance Program™ and Ultimate
Golf Fitness Ebook
4. Improve our mental games.
Golf
Mind Software
5. Improve our Probable
Golf games.
Learn how to make better
choices on the course
through knowing how
shot patterns and reading
the elements and course
better.
Click on the links above to
take a look at
ways that I personally
use myself and
recommend you try
as well.
Hope
I provided some useful
ways for to become
better prepared for
you best golf season
ever.
Ken Tannar
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