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Is Golf a Sport?

Many people take up golf thinking of it as a fairly relaxing "easy on the body" activity. The truth is that swinging a golf club is a highly physical and neurologically taxing event.  In fact, research has shown that hitting a golf shot is the same exertion on your body as lifting a weight that you could only lift four times before having to rest.  Think about that for a second . .   A full golf swing takes the same physical effort as lifting the most amount of weight you can lift four times and then you have to rest.

 . . . And how many strokes do you take per round?

Research shows even amateur golfers can swing the club at over 100 mph and use 90% of all their muscular strength. This level of exertion is similar to what football or hockey players face, yet athletes in those sports make training and conditioning a key part of preparing their bodies to handle the physical demands required to play. If you're serious about your golf game, shouldn't you?

There are dozens of books and programs out there to train you for golf, yet most are based on training you like a body builder, which is all about isolating muscles to make them bigger.  Golf requires flexibility and precision timing.  Body building does not.  Golf requires static and dynamic stabilization as well as inter-muscular coordination.  Body building does not.

Training on machines and isolating your muscles might help you walk from hole to hole with less effort, but it will not take strokes off your score or reduce your handicap.

Since every joint in the body must rotate during the golf swing, increasing your flexibility and then improving your static and dynamic stability are the keys to improving your golf game!  Is your current training program doing that? 

Train with a C.H.E.K. Certified Golf Biomechanic and condition your body to play the game, not survive it.

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