I am not a trainer but have worked out since college. The best trainer I ever had incorporated plyometrics into my workout. In fact, many trainers I have spoken with suggest a golfer should work out like a sprinter, not a distance runner, becuase of the explosiveness of the sport.
Yoga is wonderful but it will not develop explosive power.
you must understand 1 thing. sprinters want to minimize downtime but create as much power off the ground hence plyrometrics will train and address this action. olympic lifts would be far more superior and less taxing in corporation to plyros for a golferthe problem i have with introducing plyros into golf is that it aint sports specific. people will always try and intertwine this sport with this sport but at the end of the day there are more safe and productive actions that canbe used and plyros are not the way
lastly as a former sprinter myself with a pb of 10.61 at 18, plyros were used but they have there place in sprinting due to the action i have described. yoga woudl be more range of motion which is crucial in golf and would enhance a players golf-life and is safe just as weight training if done properly.
lastly again- sprinting is based on stride lenght,stride frequency and anorobic endurance BUT sprinters have high amounts of fast twitch fibres. you can convert slow twitch to fast but for the effort involved whats the point? you are better addressing mechanics as this will progress an athlete alot faster than trying to convert fibres.
** also i must point out- do you guys realise the amount of force you must apply to the ground to propell yourself back up! and do not forget the pressures that are going up fom your feet, shins,knees,hips and spine when doing plyros. you fall or make a mistake and your out for weeks if not months so why take a risk! just because sprinters work at it dosent mean you will have an explosive golf swing
look at lynn......elegant flowing swing. would plyros help a lynn blake 20years younger! maybe but he may develope back problems etc etc etc do you guys see what im saying! in the weight room focus on imbalances and work evenly
wasnt fast enough but i had fun and got to train with my idol. learnt alot but got out of the sport due to my reasons.
Of course 9,90 is better and 9,70 even better - just like 72 is better than most of us can achieve on a golf course, but 65, 60 (59) is even better....
Your 10,61 is like a 18 year old shooting 70/69 or something like that? Very good, but there's always somebody better...
sorry to say this guys but usian is filthy and so is track and feild overall. where you have a sport which involves large amounys of $$ you will always get cheating. its natural! usian bolt was running 10flat 3-4 years ago and a year later he went from 10flat to 9.7 then to 9.5 hhmmmmm nearly a half a secong improvement! carl lewis went from 9.9 in 84 to 9.86 in 91 tokyo- nearly 15years for a .15 improvement. also im not saying carl was clean but his improvements justified themselves. these guys are pushing 12/13 metres per second at top speed which is crazy but i know of alot of stories which would really make you open your eyes and at the end of the day it just aint worth it! money is one thing but your health is #1
in golf im sure you will get guys pushing the boundaries in terms of enhancers and i have no doubt that its happening.
Hey x-man, a friend over the summer showed me one legged squats, they are very difficult but I have been doing them all the way to the ground as well as some boxing exercises that I noticed really seem to give stability to everything, just doing several jabs, straight rights and a few uppercuts will wake up muscles all over your back you had no idea were there. And the one legged squats seriously improve balance and work your legs to the max. Plus one for the one legged squats. Boxing is very similar to golf because with the straight right you use serious pivot around a stationary post and a balanced body to deliver the extending right arm (#1 accumulator) you will guaranteed increase turning speed by doing hundreds of correctly performed straight rights, amp them up by putting small weights in your fists. I also agree bands and resistance training are actually very risky for golf it seems to put tons of strain on the muscles and golfers especially must be very careful not to strain the rotator cuff muscles and the knee and back muscles.
Hey x-man, a friend over the summer showed me one legged squats, they are very difficult but I have been doing them all the way to the ground as well as some boxing exercises that I noticed really seem to give stability to everything, just doing several jabs, straight rights and a few uppercuts will wake up muscles all over your back you had no idea were there. And the one legged squats seriously improve balance and work your legs to the max. Plus one for the one legged squats. Boxing is very similar to golf because with the straight right you use serious pivot around a stationary post and a balanced body to deliver the extending right arm (#1 accumulator) you will guaranteed increase turning speed by doing hundreds of correctly performed straight rights, amp them up by putting small weights in your fists. I also agree bands and resistance training are actually very risky for golf it seems to put tons of strain on the muscles and golfers especially must be very careful not to strain the rotator cuff muscles and the knee and back muscles.
Whip, i speak from experience and its amazing when you try anything like a 1 legged squat- you realise very quick what imbalances you have. dont use a barbell unless your doing lunges or step ups into a bench etc. for upper body exercises use dumbells and just like the lower body you can address imbalances immediatley.
strenght trainers nowdays use the lastest fads when they are useless.....strenght training hasnt progressed in terms of structure but has so due to guys trying to hype it up
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