Are You Too Old For Golf Fitness Workouts

Many a senior golfer would not resist the temptation to skip golf fitness workouts, using their age as an excuse. And at first glance age would seem to be a genuine excuse to avoid golf fitness workouts.

After all golf fitness workouts, as most people seem to believe, are supposed to be very strenuous programs where even dumb bells are used.

So how do you tell that you are too old for golf fitness workouts?

The answer to that question is really simple. If you are too old to play golf then you are probably too old for golf fitness workouts.

I regularly work with 80 year old golfers who comfortably go through golf fitness workouts, dumb bells and all. It is also probably appropriate to add here at this juncture that I also regularly work with youngsters barely in their teens.

Both groups of persons are able to dramatically improve on their game with the help of golf fitness workouts.

Golf fitness workouts are not any more rigorous and punishing than the game of golf is. Remember that the work outs are golf specific, meaning that they are specifically designed to help strengthen and condition the very muscles used in golf.

It is definitely not a boxing or body building fitness workout. Workouts for those sports reflect the rigorous and physically demanding aspects of those sports. In the very same way that golf fitness workouts reflect the requirements of the game of golf.

The dumbbells are usually used for strength training because this is the most efficient equipment anywhere for building strength quickly hence their inclusion in the best golf fitness workout routines.

The idea is never to lift heavy weights over long periods of time. Rather the objective to condition and strengthen golf muscles using lighter weights lifted over very short periods of time.

If you are not too old or too young for golf, golf fitness workouts are for you.

About The Author: Mike Pedersen is one of the top golf performance experts in the country. He is Golf Magazines golf performance expert; author, and founder of several cutting-edge online golf performance membership sites. You can see more golf fitness tips at his Golf Trainer site.

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What Causes a Golf Slice?

Everybody has sliced a golf ball at some time, even Tiger woods, but if you understand what causes a golf slice, then you will be better prepared to deal with it when it happens to you.

The effect of a golf slice is that the ball starts off in the right direction after you hit it, but then starts to turn right. This right hand curve then gets more and more severe until the ball lands a long way right of the target. If you are left handed, the effect is the opposite, and the ball curves to the left. The rest of this article will apply in the opposite way for those of you who are left handed golfers.

Thats the effect, but what does it mean in numbers? By how much will my ball land away to the right? In order to understand that you also have to understand why the ball moves as it does, and what causes it to do it. Lets look at the last one first. What causes your slice?

You will slice a ball because you impart a clockwise spin on it when you hit it. When the ball leaves the tee, or the lie, and it is spinning in a clockwise direction, then it will slice it will curve out to the right. There is only one geometric condition in which that can happen, but there are two basic ways in which you can create that condition. To understand that, you have to envisage in your mind the plane of the club face in relation to the direction of your drive. Write a diagram down on a piece of paper if it helps. It might be easier to understand that way.

The direction of your shot is the direction in which your club is going when it hits the ball and follows through. This might or might not be towards the intended target that is irrelevant to the slice. The plane of your clubface is a straight line drawn across the face of your club at the moment of strike. Ideally, that line should be straight across the ball, or dead square to it. A perfect shot is when the direction of your shot is straight at the target, and the clubface is square to that direction.

The ball then goes straight to the target with no sidespin. There will be a backspin, since golf clubs are designed to impart a backspin to the golf ball in order to make it travel farther (more on that later).

You spin the ball if your clubface is not square to the direction of your shot at the moment of strike. This will happen whether or not your shot is in the right direction. It is the angle between your clubface and the direction your shot that matters. If your shot is straight to the target, but your clubface is open when you hit that ball, that is if the clubface has not quite straightened up, and is pointing backwards, when it hits the ball, then you will impart that clockwise spin. The clubface will swipe the ball rather than hit it straight on.

The second way to spin the ball clockwise is if your clubface is straight on to the target when it strikes the golf ball, but you are driving across the ball, from right to left. In that case, there is still an angle between the clubface and the direction of your drive, slicing the ball, and putting that clockwise spin on.

When a golf ball is spinning through the air, the dimples are designed to accentuate the effect of air pressure. That is the reason for the backspin that your clubs put on the ball. The dimples increase the effect of air pressure between the top and bottom of the ball so that there is more pressure on the side that is spinning towards the direction of flow: the bottom of the ball that is spinning forward. The top is spinning back (hence backspin). This forces the ball upwards and so extends its period in the air, and thus increases the length of the drive.

However, if you spin the ball sideways, the same principles apply. In the clockwise spin imparted by a slice the left hand side of the ball is spinning in the direction of travel, and the right hand side away from it. Just as there is more pressure on the bottom of a backspun ball, there is then more pressure on the left hand side of a sliced ball, and the ball is pushed to the right. It doesnt happen right away since it takes time to happen.

Have you ever seen a drive in slow motion? The ball travels slightly upward for a while and then starts to increase in elevation. The same happens with a slice. It travels almost straight for the first 80 100 yards, and then heads off right. Over 200 yards it moves 7-8 yards for every degree that the clubface is out of line with the direction of your swing, so if you are four degrees off (not a lot!) your ball will land 28 32 yards right of target. How many greens or fairways will you hit then?

Thats what causes your slice, so now you should be able to work out ways to get your clubface closed quicker, or to be more accurate with the line of your drive. That, however, is another subject.

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Soccer Goalkeeper's Skill, Techniques and Goalie Training

Soccer Goalkeeper training is a world of its own. Since it is the only position on the field that allows the ball to be touched by the hands and arms.
The individual soccer goalie skills gives an advantage over all the other players on the field.
This makes training goalkeepers for soccer not only unique but challenging.

Soccer Goalkeepers are the last line of defence, and often the first line of the offense, depending on the style of play.
They will put their bodies in harms way to stop or block a shot on goal. They will dive in any direction to get the ball.
Training goalkeepers techniques is also a very physically and demanding challenge.
The most important thing to remember is the goalies mental state.
The only other player on the team who can be compared to the goalkeeper is a goal hungry striker. In fact some of the best goalies were also strikers.
There are often great one on one battles at all levels of competition between forwards and goalies.

Staying balanced and knowing the center of gravity of the body is vital to the goalkeeper.
This will improve the activity of the goalie and the state of readiness of the individual to make impressive gains in a game setting.

Most successful soccer goalkeepers are tall and thus have long arms and big hands. If a goalkeeper is short, they will usualy make up for the lack of height with good verticle and lateral mobility.
Remember that goalies have a great sense of self worth but still need to be motivated on a regular basis.
Soccer Goalkeepers need to do their general warm ups with the team, but then branch out and get worked on with the specific drills that will prepare them for the practice or game.

Goalkeepers are also the leaders of the teams and usually have dominant personalities. These individuals must be helped to fulfill this role by being placed in a vocal and demonstrative capacity.
They are definitly leaders in the 18 yard box, and should be allowed to gain respect from their team.
The ball can only be handled by the goalie in the 18 yard box, anyone else who is unfortunate to let the ball touch an arm, a free kick is given against. In the case of the goalkeepers team mate it is a penalty shot from "the spot".

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