Preparing for Next Years Golf Season (cardio kickboxing)
No commentsBy Rob Siclair
It has begun. In my area of the country the golf season is starting to wind down with the weather getting colder and the days getting shorter. Another sign is the number of patients I have seen recently with back pain from golfing.
Hopefully you had a great season and made it through without any nagging injuries. Now is the time to start preparing for next year. Like any great athlete knows, it is a lot easier to maintain a good fitness level then try to build one.
So where do we start? If you have any nagging injuries you need to address them before they become too serious. The most common areas I see injured in golfers are the back and the shoulders. Often just having a few weeks off from golfing is enough to recover from these nagging overuse injuries. If after three weeks off you still have not improved then it is time to seek medical help.
Training wise the first thing we need to do is stop any rotational training for three to four weeks to rest the tissues. If you have not been training during the season then now is the time to get a jump start on your competition for next year.
I am a big fan of circuit training so I am going to go through an example of a program you can use to get started. The next three months are ideal for preparing for the more intense training you will do the few months before the season kicks off.
Getting started. Here is a good basic program for the first 2-3 weeks.
Squats. 3-4 sets of 10-20 times. Keep your back flat and try to get low enough so your upper thigh is parallel to the floor without letting your spine flex at all.
Push-ups. 3-4 sets of as many as you can. Keep your body flat. Lower slowly then explode up.
Pull-up, Lat pull or row. Essential for shoulder health. 3-4 sets of 10-15 times. Do not bend your spine and keep your stomach lightly braced.
Bird Dog. Start on your hands and knees with your stomach lightly tensed. Kick one leg out straight while reaching the other arm out in front of you. You must not let your spine bend. Hold the position for six seconds and repeat ten times. Do both side for 3 sets of 10.
Side Bridge. Lay on your side with your legs straight but your top foot resting on the floor just in front of your bottom foot. Your upper body is resting on your forearm. Tighten your stomach lightly as if someone is going to punch you. Lift your hips off the floor so your body is straight and all your weight is on your forearm and feet. Hold 6 seconds and try to do 10 times. Do both sides for 3 sets.
Ultimate Performance for Golf has recently been released by Rob Siclair. Rob is a physical therapist with a degree in Movement & Sports Science and works training and rehabilitating athletes of all levels.
Finding Cheap Home Gym Exercise Equipment
By Samuel Zipursky
Most people really want to get in shape and always dream about having a healthy body like the ones they see in movies and on TV. Well the hardest part of getting that body is actually getting your self to exercise on a regular basis at home or in a workout fitness gym or club.
Well for many people when you mention going to the gym they not only say they don’t have time but they also tend to argue that the prices are just not reasonable enough so they don’t end up bothering. Well let’s put the excuses aside and think about setting up a home gym. You don’t actually need much money because it is not too hard these days to find cheap or discount exercise equipment either brand new or even used.
These days we are lucky if we are thinking about trying to set up a little home exercise gym or studio. The internet gives us so many cheap options of getting equipment with no stress. It also won’t break your bank account either if you look around properly for the right deals.
The first place that I have had luck finding great deals on home gym equipment is on Craigslist. This is one of the world’s biggest online classified services and you can always seem to find great deals on gym equipment and it’s usually right in your own neighborhood if you search the website properly and call around.
You can also check around local garage or yard sales to find equipment like barbells or stair masters. The great thing is that fitness equipment is big usually so if somebody is doing some moving or reorganizing of their house their health equipment is usually the first thing to go. It’s a sad priority but true that most people will push their health to the back of what needs to get done.
It’s not uncommon to find a treadmill or an old set of weights for next to nothing just because the previous owners just want to get rid of the bulky equipment quickly. Another great thing about buying this stuff used at a yard or garage sale is you can try it out for a few minutes usually first just to make sure it’s not broken.
So before you just give up on the idea of getting healthy just because it’s too expensive consider looking around for some great deals on cheap exercise equipment. You can find it all over the place but especially on auction sites on the internet and also back yard sales of neighbors who simply don’t use their home gym any longer.
Sam is the author of a website on how to find home gym fitness equipment
. He also talks all about different types of cheap exercise equipment and much more.
Get Fit With Kickboxing Cardio Workouts
Tap dancing at your feet now
By Eli Newsom
Are you the one who wishes to learn tap dancing but are not having enough time to attend the tap dance lessons from a professional dancing and fitness institute? Shed all your worries now as there are instructional fitness video and dance video DVD series available that serves as a great guide to learn tap dance and that too in the comforts of ones own house. These dance video DVDs are specially created for both the dancers and the non dancers so that they can learn the basic steps and points that are needed to know while becoming a mater in the field of tap dancing.
The tap steps in dance video DVDs are:
Slowly and clearly broken down and completely explained with main emphasis on the correct forms
Explained in a accurate musical beat form, even including the counts subdivision
Can be conveniently seen from 2 different angles at the same moment
From the back side (like standing behind the instructor)
From the side position (including the tap shoes of the instructor)
Using both the angles in order to make the dance learning process easy and fast
Contains visual display of musical beats with the usage of subtitle feature on the Level 1 DVD player
Special feature of music only in order to dance on your favorite soundtrack without the background talking and sounds
Are repeated over and over again with due attention paid to both the angles
The steps and instructions of tap dancing are clearly instructed in these dance video DVDs so that people can learn this special type of dance with ease and enjoyment. These fitness videos offer the people with great chances of learning the popular American dance culture in a manner never before seen in any dance video. The on screen musical beats and split screen angles of the camera are the most astonishing features of the fitness video.
Learn to tap dance with these videos are mainly for all those people including:
The ones who have been always interested in knowing the tap dance but were either too busy or too shy to attend the live tap dance classes
People looking forward to lose those extra pounds along with having some enjoyment at the very same moment
Actors/ performers and dancers who wish to develop some powerful foundation of the Basic tap dance skills or enhancing the existing dancing skills
People who have ever imagined that they cant dance
These dance video and fitness video are great for people of all ages so that even the old ones can learn the American style of dancing and keep themselves fit in their elderly days. The fitness video is also beneficial for all those who are trying hard to lose weight. With these DVDs and tap dancing lessons, the interested person will be busy taking pleasure in the tap dancing along with not even realizing that they are also losing that ugly looking flesh. The DVDs that are provided for dancing lessons are shot using the state-of-the-art equipment so that top notch video as well as audio can be provided to the learners. So, get these fitness video and dance video DVDs today and say hello to tap dancing.
http://www.tapdancemadeeasy.com
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