Golf Training Franchise

FlatBall Golf Swing Training Aid $6.99 When you get good at hitting the Flatball, you will never hit a real golf ball "Fat" or"Thin" again!

GolfJOC PivotPro Golf Training Aid $79.99 Pivot is the engine that drives the golf swing. Universal among all tour pro's - they all coil their chest against a braced back leg. PivotPro is guaranteed to place your body in a powerful and perfectly balanced position at the top of your golf swing every time, and is guaranteed to add distance and improve accuracy.

Karma Lady Training Grip $1.99 The Karma training grips place the hands in the correct position every time. Excellent for beginners or to put on training clubs. Click here for more information on the Karma Golf Grips.

Karma Training Grip $1.99 The Karma training grips place the hands in the correct position every time. Excellent for beginners or to put on training clubs. Click here for more information on the Karma Golf Grips.

Karma Training Grip (LH) $1.99 The Karma training grips place the hands in the correct position every time. Excellent for beginners or to put on training clubs. Click here for more information on the Karma Golf Grips.

Momentus Golf Men's Speed Whoosh Training Club $69.99 Increase your club head speed with the Momentus Golf Speed Whoosh Training Club. Set the magnetic timing ball at the shaft of the club and swing at a high speed several times in a row, you'll hear the "whoosh" of the club and your fast twitch muscles fibers are activated. When you pick up your driver and hit a tee shot, you can expect to add 7 to 10 MPH in club head speed instantly, translating into a tee shot flying 21 to 30 yards farther.

Callaway Basic Training Bundle $34.99 This bundle provides three great training aids in one box and is great for both adult-beginners and juniors.

Golf Pride David Leadbetter Training Grips $11.69 Helps golfers learn the mechanics and feel of proper hand placement through repetition and muscle memory.

FootJoy Men's Contour Casual Golf Shoe - White/Taupe $99.99 The FootJoy Men's Contour Casual Golf Shoe is an extension of FJ's very successful Contour Series franchise, the best selling golf shoe category in the world. The versatile spikeless LoPro Casual golf shoe for women utilizes super-soft, premium leathers, lightweight underfoot comfort and waterproof protection.

GolfGym Balance Ball Training DVD $19.99 The Balance Ball Training DVD features PGA Tour Coach Joey D with "Bonus" video from the PGA Tour Fitness Trailer. The GolfGym Balance Balls are being used in the Fitness Trailers of the PGA, Nationwide and the Champions Tours.

Athletes Can Benefit Greatly From Adding Yoga To Training

For more and more sports stars, from the collegiate to semi-professional to professional levels, yoga is becoming a common part of their preparation and workout routines. Confronting the long-held principle that yoga holds no advantage for performers involved in "hardy" sports such as football, basketball, hockey and even boxing, many institutions are including yoga into their training programs, while some of today's leading sports stars separately have made yoga part of their off-season training as well.

For many decades, athletes have put their faith in weight conditioning and vigorous cardio programs to keep them in top form for the rigors of their particular activity. The gentle stretching of yoga (as no doubt observed on television) seemed to lack the work they assumed their body required to get them prepared for the demands of their sport.

But that misconception has been altered as teams and sports performers have began investigating yoga more closely and have realized the discipline of body and mind that is required to perform some of the more difficult yoga positions.

Numerous famous sports stars have used yoga to help in their conditioning, from NBA legends Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Robert Parris, Maurice Lucas and Bill Walton; tennis greats Guillermo Vilas, Yannick Noah and John McEnroe; ex-NFL star Dan Marino and golf legend Gary Player were among the first to practice yoga in the '70s and '80s. And that movement continues today as stars such as tennis' Serena and Venus Williams, pro basketball's Shaquille O'Neal, pro football's Shannon Sharp and Jon Kitna, boxer Evander Holyfield and entire franchises such as the Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Cubs have tapped into the knowledge of yoga trainers to add a different and much-desired facet to their regimen.

So what is the benefit of adding yoga to your workout?

Most likely of most interest to athletes is the evidence that yoga can improve overall strength. For a lot of athletes, increasing strength and power is the key to performing better at their sports, regardless of whether it's baseball, swimming, track and field or football. But weight lifting, which a vast majority of athletes swear by, can only work one or two groups of muscles during each exercise, which means they must spend many hours in the gym to get the results they want. Yoga and its connected poses incorporate all of the muscles in the body to attain stability and strengthen the relationship between the muscles as well. The result? A body that is stronger and works as one cohesive unit.

Secondly, yoga works to build a stronger core, from most of the power the body needs in sports originates. In sports like baseball and tennis, the power to hit or throw begins in the torso. In football, the core helps the body make the sudden turns and twists that are needed in the sport. Getting this section of the body in condition is one of the main advantages to adding yoga to your athletic routine. The movements and stances of yoga served to improve the posture, help align the body and assists in the overall operation of the body, which can make athletes faster, more powerful and toned.

By adding muscle and balance, yoga also helps increase responsiveness in athletes, another major point. By combining enhanced strength, mobility and balance, yoga can increase agility that can be useful in virtually all sports.  And as an added benefit, athletes who improve their mobility through yoga can reduce the possibility of injury by conditioning the body to the repetitive motions that can have harmful effects (think carpal tunnel syndrome).

And finally, yoga can enhance the relationship between the mind and the body. For many sports performers, there are "head games" involved in athletics: psyching out an opponent, visualizing success, predicting an opponent's moves before he or she makes them. These decisions, sometimes made in mere seconds, depend upon a clear mind, a state that can be achieved through the meditative exercises of yoga. Through the breathing routines, meditation and mannered postures of yoga, athletes can learn to keep their mind and body working in unison even during the most intense moments of the game, when an emotional state can result in tight muscles, lost flexibility and inferior performance.

Thanks to their discovery of the benefit of yoga, it has now become a welcome part of the training program of many athletes on all skill levels. By exploring the diverse forms of yoga and their unique characteristics, athletes can find the perfect style of yoga to fit the needs of their specific sport.

About the Author

Linda Adams enjoys all things health related.

One of the most excellent yoga websites Linda has found is Yoga Fitness Kamloops, which is a exceptional mix of yoga and exercise.

For more information, have a look at Slowly, More Men Coming Around to Embrace Yoga's Benefits one of the finest Yoga blogs.

Aegis Investment Management Opening the Bell on the TSX

Tagged with: and • business • exercises, • golf • sport

Filed under: Uncategorized

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!