JCrane

yes, you usually do not have to travel far to find good courses

Good topic. Let me add to it. Pre hydration. This is something I have been doing for years. I got into it because of the hot Yoga that I started doing many years ago. I would lose so much moisture in such a short amount of time, I had a hard time replacing it. Once I got into the habit of hydrating all day long, it became second nature. I keep a canister of tea in my car and sip it all day if I am driving, I drink kombucha while I am at home, but water would work. The result was that I no longer go into thirst mode. I do not need to bring any water to hot yoga. Of course this may mean more trips to the bathroom, but that is a small price to pay

I agree with you 100% It is what we value most. Personally I have always put my overall health over my golf game or any other sport. I have been doing Yoga for over 20 years and teaching for 12 and it has allowed me to keep playing golf, volleyball, and Pickle ball at a high level. I was a power lifter for 30 years and those days are long gone. I now have dynamic strength instead of the isolated strength I got from weights. My muscles are strong and mobile and connected instead of just being large. Strength, flexibility, and balance all go together. to create a safe, strong healthy body at any age. Sure you can figure it all out on your own, but a good instructor can make the journey much more streamlined and effective and time is money.. in my opinion live instruction is essential at least in the beginning. The first few months can be challenging as you move your body past the stretch reflex. This is the body's resistance to change as a way of protecting itself. If you over stretch you can strain the muscle. If you do not stretch it enough you will not grow. You want to get off on the right foot, then maybe videos in my opinion

The poses themselves are just tools to train the body. If you do the exercises slow and controlled, you will build very strong connective muscles that will give you much more control over your swing. It takes a couple of months for the body to adjust to the new demands that is being placed on it, then the real progress begins. Many people quit before that and never realize the great benefits. A good instructor will notice how your body is getting stronger and encourage you to take on more challenges when you are ready.

see if you can find a hot power Yoga class. Do it slow and controlled. The heat and the challenging poses will cause your heart rate to rise and your breath to be deep and long and that will give you the cardio benefits you are looking for.

what style of Yoga are you doing. Cardio is many times seen as getting on a treadmill and forcing breath into the lungs to raise our heart rate. The truth is that all that is unnecessary. if you do the right kind of Yoga, you will get your cardio from the Yoga. My resting heart rate is between 38 and 45.

That is a matter of being uninformed. It is true that some people who are hyper-flexible and type A people can over stretch the ligaments, but those people are anomalies. I have been doing Yoga for 20 years and have taught thousands of people and many golfers and Yoga can do nothing but help your game. another misconception is that Yoga is just stretching. Yoga is a full body transformation. It is a tool that can build strength in the entire body, especially the core while at the same time adding balance. This gives the golf body everything it needs to perform the best swing possible

I recommend starting a Yoga program all year round. That relatively small investment in time will give you huge rewards that the weights will not. When we do things like swinging golf clubs with tight muscles we are traumatizing the muscles. I am never sore from playing golf

what other reason would anyone want to do Yoga ? LOL

Hi Chris : Depending on how you lost the weight there is no question you can lose strength along with it and the other side to that is can you keep it off Hi Chris : first of all there is no doubt you can lose strength from weight loss if it is not done right and the other problem is keeping it off. I recommend something called Intermittent fasting. Google it and study it. I have been using it for the last 6 months. It is a schedule of eating where you eat in a window . This along with better choices in food creates the opportunity for the body to shift from burning Glucose to burning fat as energy. As far as exercise goes I would recommend Power Yoga. It builds strength and mobility in the body dynamically and that is how the body works. Weights isolate the muscles as it becomes way too easy to over train certain muscle groups over others. Hope this helps Jim

I can guarantee you will feel the difference over time. Just be patient and consistent

good for you ! great post ! I have a friend who named his dog Five Miles, just so he can say he walks five miles every day LOL

If golfers knew how much Yoga could help their golf game, they would all be doing it. First of all lengthening the muscles allow easier and greater rotation in the swing. secondly it builds dynamic strength in the body by forcing the various muscle groups to work together, especially if you do a slow version which is what I do and recommend. Next it builds balance which we tend to lose as we age and need to keep it in check. Now we it improve your golf score ? I do not know. How do you put. ? LOL It should but more importantly you will be able to play golf pain free which is well worth the effort

why don't you try doing some Yoga. It is low impact and will produce the same benefits that exercise produces. I have been doing it for 20 years and it beats any other form of exercise I had done before. It is not necessary to beat ourselves up to get into shape in regards to food, It is a proven fact food manufactures put chemicals into our food supply that cause us to feel hungry after we have eaten enough. Since 1970 the rise in sugar in all it's forms in foods has risen exponentially along with diabetes. I have never heard of anyone gaining weight from eating too many salads.

I think the idea of exercising for the purpose of losing weight can lead one to stop once the weight is attained. It is easy to lose the overall goal which should be health. One would assume that would be the reason to lose weight. There is no doubt that keeping our weight down is part our desired health goal. I believe the calorie thing is way over done and will eventually give way to more informed way of eating and losing weight. The new Paradigm will be to move away from processed foods that are laced with chemicals, riding ourselves of our sugar addiction and moving toward nutrient dense foods such as plant based foods so our bodies are receiving the fuel it needs to energize itself. If we commit to a regular exercise program as part of an overall heath goal and educate ourselves on how healthy foods fuel the body and move in that direction and away from foods that detract from that goal, we will not have to count calories and weight lose will become a result instead of a goal. Just some thoughts

There is a gas station in town here where they pump the gas for you. That used to be the way it was until someone decided it would be cheaper for everyone to pump their own gas. There are times when passing the work onto the customer does make sense, but there are other times when providing that service makes more sense. These posts tell me it makes more sense to provide the service of course management and take it out of the hands of the golfers

They are probably using the government model. LOL Customer service should rate at the top to increase profits. Most golfers do not mind paying a little more to increase their enjoyment of the round. I am a bit surprised this model has not caught on, but judging from the posts many golfers are not even aware of this and continue to blame each other.

you make some great points. I have played on courses that require carts and have field Marshalls not only on the front tees but travel the course keeping their eye on how things are going and decide if groups need to play through. Of course those courses require reservations well in advance because they are so popular. and well managed. good post

I have been guilty of the second one. I am hitting the ball pretty good that day and so I let them putt out and then hit my next ball 50 yds short,but I would bet money if I hit the ball while they were on the green, it would have rolled up along side them.

you should have said No I only play holes I can par or eagle LOL

I agree it probably was a bad analogy especially in these hyper sensitive times we are living in.where everything is taken seriously, and yes they have the right to send 10 carts out there at a time and yes,people have the right to play somewhere else and that is usually what ends up happening. No need to defend your course. If you are alright with it that is great, It just would not be on my list of preferred golf courses, no matter how cheap it was. Thanks for sharing

I do not think you got off topic and I understand your willingness to look the other way, but that does not excuse the way they are running their course. Because they do not charge a lot does not give them the right to abuse the people who support the course. You are obviously a very tolerant person and should be given credit for that, but others are not and it only takes a few to bad mouth the course and create a bad reputation for the course and they should consider that when allowing fivesomes on the course. It is like the old saying from the abused wife who says " he does not always beat me. " Food for thought Thanks for sharing

that is just greedy and it ends up working against them as people will get frustrated and go somewhere else

Did I understand you said a fivesome. ? Where ever I have played they never allowed fivesomes for obvious reasons and even if they did you would think they would have the common sense to let a twosome go through. Amazing !

I feel better when someone tells me to play through. I try to be careful with judging slow play. Sometimes a group has a bad hole or loses a ball, but picks up the pace on the next hole or two, but I have found if they are consistently slow they usual realize this and offer to let you play through. At least that way if you have a bad hole or two you do not have to feel bad. I like playing through on the tea box myself rather than trying to find balls on or near the green, but for the most part I have found most golfers are pretty easy to work with on this issue and the ones who are not should probably choose a time that is less popular like midnight LOL