Golf Fitness: Something To Ponder and The DO!

After several days of cold and ice, it's easy to jump at the opportunity to rush to the golf course with a turn in the weather. But hold on, not so fast, Jack! Think of what you have been doing; more to the point, think of what you have not been doing. Like using those golfing muscles. So, before you come down with pulls and tears and aches and pains, take some time to think about your golf fitness. And to help us do that, this little reminder from about.com on some exercising you can do right there in your own living room. Or out in the garage or down in the workshop if loving spouse (it is Valentin's Day!) prefers that.

The exercises: Backswing with a dumbbell; and lunge with a club twisting. Go take a look and get yourself ready for the much warmer weather just down the road a piece.

Getting the body ready for the golf season

With warmer weather coming, would be a good idea to get the old body ready for the rigors of the upcoming golf season. This is especially true if one has done an inordinate amount of sitting around over the winter reading books or watching movies or chit chatting with friends down at the local coffee house (that would be The Cabin or Dairy Master or Dairy Queen or Uncle Bucks around here), or even working and not playing. Personally, I have done a lot of resting-of-the-back-side activities over the past several months and find myself more than a little out of shape. And that is with a daily regimen of half hour walks.

What especially brought this to mind is a current backache that screams and yells at me when I'm trying to putt a little in the living room. It's one of those recurrent problems that pops up every now and then or when I over do any one particular thing. Don't like it; is restrictive; need something to do away with it.

Conveniently, an email from about.com lead me to 'Fitness and Health for Golfers', a good place to go to find something to get my back back in shape. Or at least more ready for the warmer weather coming our way and the surge in physical activity that will no doubt follow.

First up for me, the Cats up and cats down exercise to stretch and strengthen the lower back. Seems easy, is easy. Now to build it into a part of my exercise routine, that will be the hard part.

Or will it? If my back continues to give me problems, then I will have a pretty good reminder that it's time to get back to the stretch and strengthen exercise, the cats up and cats down. So, this is the mind imprint I'm looking for: back pain > stop current activity > stretch > strengthen. Got it.

There's more in the days to come. Check out the link and see if you can stay one step ahead of the aches and pains of too much of a good thing after months of too much of another good thing.