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
In response to golf specific exercises, what do you think of Mr Bertholy's deltoid lifts? He said that he knew of practitioners gaining up to 30 yards...
In response to golf specific exercises, what do you think of Mr Bertholy's deltoid lifts? He said that he knew of practitioners gaining up to 30 yards...
The left hand and its fingers need to be strong enough to control the club, especially during the Loading from the Top and at Impact. However, in Pivot Strokes, the left arm is essentially inert and is transported to Release by the Pivot. It is being pulled -- transported -- by the Pivot (Hogan's "Free ride" in Five Lessons). It is not pulling itself.
Hence, in my opinion, Mr. Bertholy's emphasis on the bent-over left arm deltoid raises are 'overkill'. (As I recall, he claimed to have the Guinness World record on reps with his iron bar.) No matter how many you do, the left arm will always remain considerably smaller than either of the legs.
Simply Practicing your golf swing at various stages and monitoring all the components, will build stabilizing muscles in your back. It seems to me that the back of this machine should be strong enough to handle the outward force instead of being thrown around by it. So the machine should be stabilized, feet bolted to the ground, stationary post and strong stabilizing leg and back muscles on the back of the machine. When practicing always practice 'proud posture' and your back muscles will build swing after swing. Soon proud posture will be automatic as the muscles have built up enough in the upper and lower back that the spine is pulled back straight enough without consciously doing it.
+1 to lynn's comments, the true swing does not use muscular effort, getting stronger can help to control the motion better but the speed and thrust are not created by muscular effort and so one should not concern himself with building arm muscle for power in a true swing. In fact be very careful of any amount of stress being put on the deltoids and rotator cuffs, the tour is filled with guys who've gone through career stalling shoulder surgeries.
My friend who is a true hitter and has tremendous distance, attributes all his power to this one exercise he has done thousands of times. It's a straight right arm extension with a cable pulley machine, with a turning body like the straight right in boxing only with both feet shoulder width apart and facing forward this builds his tricep muscles and stabilizing right shoulder muscles while stabilizing the core as well.
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