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Seven Easy Steps To Cure A Golf Addict

• March 31st, 2009

Do you have a friend who is an avid golfer? Most of us can’t understand what the big deal is about smacking a white ball around a field for hours and hours, let alone spending hundreds of dollars each year on golf equipment. So how do you cure this addiction? Here are seven easy to follow steps for someone troubled by this horrible addiction.

Step One: The only known cure for the avid golfer is found in a single place, the golf course. Firstly, it’s the most likely place you’ll find your golfing friend and therefore the best place to start. So, grab a set of clubs and hit the links.

Step Two: Once you’re on the course, the best thing to do is relax and try to enter the mind of your addict. Don’t worry about the world outside, your problems at home, or anything other that enjoying the beautiful outdoors and your golf game. Soon, you will start to understand why your friend is drawn to the course, day after day, week after week.

Step Three: Be sure to take advantage of the refreshment cart, also know as the beer cart. The beer cart is usually staffed by young, attractive females who are noted for serving you with a smile. Most of them sell cigars which help you celebrate your successful intervention with your golf addict.

Step Four: As your finish your round, you will most likely be surprised by how quickly 4 or 5 hours has passed. You will notice that your partner’s clubs were nicer than yours and if you were lucky, you may have even had the chance to try their driver while you played. This step involves a visit to the Pro Shop to get a decent driver for yourself.

Step Five: A visit to the 19th Hole. No golf outing is complete until you’ve socialized for at least one drink at the 19th Hole.

Step Six: You now have a good idea of what is fueling this addiction. You vow to no longer let your friend suffer through their disease on their own. You make plans to tee off tomorrow, same time, same place.

Step Seven: Admit you now are hooked and it’s not so much a disease as it is a passion you share with your friends. This is the easiest step of all but of course requires the first 6 steps to get here. Welcome to the club!

Mike Wyman is co-owner of http://www.DateAGolfer.com and http://www.PuttingForPar.com

My Golf Buddies Belly Laugh Watching My Stiff and Choppy Golf Swing – How Can I Fix It?

• March 31st, 2009

We would all like to have a fluid, beautiful swing like Adam Scott, power off the tee like Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, and the ability to repeat that swing round after round, day after day.

But what is holding back most amateurs from that silky smooth and powerful swing?

Most likely, it’s your hamstrings and your low back.

We are going to explore the connection between your hammies, your low back and that less than PGA pro, Golf Magazine type golf swing.

Let’s start with your hamstrings. Most of us think we know where our hamstrings are located and what they do, but do we really? We’re always hearing about baseball players, football players and basketball players coming down with hamstring injuries. It’s a common problem in a lot of sports, including golf.

What are they and what do they do?

The hamstrings are a group of muscles located on the back part of your upper leg. The hamstring group consists of three individual muscles: the semimembrinosus, semitendinosus, and the biceps femoris. To make it easier on my typing and to your eyes we’ll just keep it simple and call them your hamstrings. The function of the hamstrings in your body is pretty complex.

I’ll try to simplify it for you. First off, your hamstrings bend your knee. Also, your hamstrings help stabilize your hip area. So when you are performing almost any activity the hamstrings are essentially helping to hold your hips in place. They are great stabilizers. So the next time you are on the dance floor trying to do your best impression of Fred Astaire or John Travolta, think about how hard those hammies are working!

In addition to bending the knee and stabilizing the hips, your hamstrings help with your rotation of your leg internally and externally. Let’s try something. Right now, stand up and turn your foot inward (pigeon toed) and then rotate your foot out (duck toed). These two foot/leg movements use the hamstrings to make the inward and outward movements happen. This is certainly not a complete list, but it should give you insight to how involved the hamstrings are when it comes to the human body.

What about my aching low back!

I think we all know where the low back is located, especially if you are a golfer. If you experience low back issues like half of the golfers in the world, you intimately know where the low back is and how it affects your daily life.

The low back is essentially a group of small muscles. All these little muscles together comprise the lower back region of the body. The lower back muscles have a lot of functions. To start off, the lower back muscles help stabilize your spine at all times, especially during movement. In addition, the lower back muscles are used extensively to rotate the torso and to bend your hips forward/backward. Keep in mind that the lower back muscles of your body are probably active and functioning 99% of the time. They are worked a ton! Every day. When’s the last time you pulled weeds in the backyard for hours? How did your low back and hammies feel the next day?

Alright now, what about that choppy swing my golf buddies give me a hard time about?

Now, onto the golf swing. The golf swing is essentially a total body movement that requires the body to move through multiple planes of motion. The body has to stabilize your moving body, accelerate aggressively on the downswing, rotate quickly, and decelerate in a very short order during the golf swing. This causes enormous stress on the body and results in fatigue all over. For some of us that fatigue sets in on the range, and for others it’s after a weekend of 72 holes and a few hands of poker with the guys. For the PGA Tour pros, hopefully it’s after walking up the 18th on Sunday in front of TV cameras and thousands of spectators.

The connection is that hamstrings and the low back are working extremely hard during the golf swing, and quite often either one or the other (low back or hamstrings or even both) gets “tight.” The tightness we talk about is something most all of you have felt at one time or another. And I think it would be safe to say that in addition to feeling these muscles getting tight you know what effect it has on your game.

So, knowing that these two body parts are connected to the swing, now what?

Here’s why the Golf Channel is not going to be calling you anytime soon to exclaim about your beautiful swing….until you fix a few things.

Both the low back and hamstrings become “tight” from swinging a club. When you are actively using both of these muscle groups in the golf swing, these muscles get “tired”. What do I mean when I say “tired?” Exactly that! They get tired, meaning the muscles get fatigued. They have no more gas left in the tank. And when muscles get fatigued they don’t function properly or efficiently, and they shorten and become restricted. This is essentially the body’s way of telling you that your muscles are tired and they need a rest. It is also a “defense mechanism” of sorts by the body to prevent injury. If you continue to “work” muscles that are tired they will eventually become injured. So when you are performing the golf swing for an extended amount of time, say, for instance, 18 holes or a long practice session, your low back and hamstrings are going to get tired. If they get tired enough, they will become “tight.” And that is the point where these muscles start to affect your swing. Your swing looks stiff and choppy.

So it’s the fatigue that really makes my swing look stiff?

The golf swing requires your body to move through a pretty complex range of motion. This range of motion is essentially the back swing to the follow through. This large range of motion allows the golfer to swing the club on the correct path, create club head speed, and swing the club with the correct timing. Ultimately, it provides the golfer with the correct golf swing. In order for all these movements to occur in the right sequence, all the muscles of the body must be “loose” and have their normal ranges of motion available to them. It’s like someone taking most of your clubs away before a match. No putter. No driver (probably a benefit for most golfers). No wedges. You are probably not going to score as well without all your critical clubs available to you.

Without your hammies and your low back working with a full tank of gas, you’ve got your stiff and choppy golf swing. This results in reduced club head speed and less likelihood of swinging the club on the correct swing plane or with the correct timing. Amazing when you think how these two muscles groups that are associated to the golf swing can hinder your performance if they are “tight.”

So that’s why I haven’t gotten much better after all those lessons!

We all need a coach or a trainer. Phil Mickelson certainly has a swing coach, a short game coach, and I help him with his physical training.

What I’m saying is that without training your body to match your swing, your improvement in your swing will be limited by the strength, flexibility and endurance of your hamstrings and low back area.

I would suggest the implementation of a golf-specific training program that assists in getting the body ready to swing a golf club. This type of program focuses on developing the proper ranges of motion in these muscle groups for the golf swing. This type of program assists in developing the needed strength, endurance, and power required of the golf swing. In addition, a program like this can assist in the prevention of injuries to the lower back and other parts of the body. Finding a quality, golf-specific, PGA Tour-proven program can be difficult.

That’s where we come in. Our programs have helped golfers from amateurs to a Masters Champion. They are available to you at www.bioforcegolf.com. Programs at our site are geared towards developing your body around the golf swing. They essentially are swing tools working on the piece of machinery that swings that 450 cc driver you just bought! The programs are “tour proven” and work for both the professional and the amateur. They do not take long to perform (15 minutes a day). And I think it is safe to say anyone serious about their golf game will spend fifteen minutes a day with a program that could lower their handicap by 30%. Don’t you think? Thirty percent!

Check it out and I am sure you will agree.

Sean Cochran is one of the most recognized golf fitness instructors in the world today. He travels the PGA Tour regularly with 2004 Masters Champion Phil Mickelson. He has made many of his golf tips, golf instruction and golf swing improvement techniques available to amateur golfers on the website http://www.bioforcegolf.com Check out his manual and DVD, Your Body & Your Swing, (http://www.bioforcegolf.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=93) on BioForceGolf.com. To contact Sean, you can email him at support@bioforcegolf.com.

Create a Fresh Atmosphere in Your Bedroom with a White Bed

• March 31st, 2009

White is a super colour, although some people do disfavor it. It can get messy very easy, which does mean more time cleaning it. Nevertheless if you are thinking of getting a new bed then you would be mad not to consider a white bed. Not only does it make the perfect centre piece in any bedroom but it will brighten up your morning

Recent we setup the only UK website catering to people who are specifically looking for white bed frames. We believe that if you want to create a restful & peaceful atmosphere in your bedchamber the white is the only colour of bed you should consider. We have many different kinds of white beds for you to choose from, whether it’s a cabin or bunk bed for the kids or even a double leather bed for yourself

So whatever kind of bed you are considering of going for then might we advise you take a look at some of our white bed frames. So whether you are searching for a bunk bed for the kids sharing or a fancy leather bed for your room we have it in white. With prices beginning at just £100 can you really afford not to at least take a look at what we have to offer? White leather beds under £300, you won’t find that anywhere else

Changing Hockey Before It’s Too Late

• March 30th, 2009

The latest buzz in the sports world is the agreement in the National Hockey League that will bring hockey back to the ice next season after a one-year absence of the sport. Since the moment I first heard the news, I have been trying hard to care about this return, as have the millions of people worldwide who failed to realize that hockey ever left. I don’t mean to imply that I don’t enjoy watching hockey. Rather, I mean to state it directly: I don’t enjoy watching hockey…

This is not to say that there is no hope for the sport. Anytime an activity involves ice and sticks, the potential exists for something fun and exciting, as proven on a regular basis by popsicles. Plus, now is the time when negotiations are still in progress, which means opportunities exist to change the sport. As a non-fan, I would suggest the following:

- Currently, squids are thrown onto the ice when there is a hat trick, or three goals scored by the same player in one game. I propose that squids instead be thrown onto the ice sporadically throughout each game. Thus, hockey would no longer be a team versus team sport. Rather, it would be team versus team versus squid. Not since the Winter Olympics — or maybe the NBA All-Star Game — has there been such global competition…

- The zamboni, which is used to refresh the ice between periods, should also be moving on the ice at all times, driven by NHL legends such as Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe. Watching this slow-moving device would be a lot more exciting to some people than the actual game. In special games, like those shown on national television, the zamboni should shoot lasers…

- The goalie should no longer wear pads, nor should he have a stick. Come on, tough guys, let’s see what you can do with your own hands. If “Smurfs on Ice” can do it, why not the NHL?

- If a player breaks his stick during a game, he should have to use a broom for the rest of it. If the broom breaks, a Twizzler will serve as replacement. And what if the Twizzler breaks? Well, come on, this is a Twizzler: it won’t break…

- Fights should be encouraged more by referees, who should use wireless microphones to yell such remarks as “Did you hear what he said about your mom?” and “It sounded like he called you a baseball player!”

- Players who score a hat trick should be required to do a trick with a hat. Then — and only then — I would root for this to occur…

I have now come full circle with my agenda, beginning and ending with hat tricks. Not even a magician could make a plan like this…

But I digress.

Greg Gagliardi is a teacher and writer. His stream-of-consciousness weekly humor column, “Progressive Revelations,” has been ongoing since 1998. (http://www.ProgressiveRevelations.com)

Core Exercise For Golf Will Improve Your Driving Distance The Quickest

• March 28th, 2009

Core exercise for golf. You’ve probably heard this phrase mentioned on the television a time or to. This is the area that Vijay works on the most with his golf trainer and it seems to be working for him. He’s driving it longer and straighter and winning tournaments.

When we talk about core exercise for golf the key term that needs to be thrown in there is rotational. You see…the golf swing is a turn (or rotate) back and a turn (or rotate) through. So any core exercise for golf you do should incorporate rotational strength and flexibility.

One of the most difficult things for golfers to do is take a step back from their game and examine what they can do to improve performance. Strength training is a perfect example. What almost all golfers overlook is developing the strength and awareness fo the region of their body that can lead them to their best level no matter what the age or ability.

That area is the CORE!

This area starts roughly at your belly button and goes up to the bottom of your sternum. It is the engine of your body and awareness of your core affects golf the most. Think of it as the link in the chain that needs to be the strongest, not the weakest.

Greg Norman use to say when he wanted to hit it long he would get his belly button or belt buckle turning faster; which in other words is his or your core.

Two simple core exercises for golf that will quickly strengthen your core is ab crunches and back extensions. These would be your initial exercises since I mentioned early on in this article you need to work from a rotational standpoint to strengthen your core specific to golf.

Once you’ve accomplished the above exercises, you can move on to a crunch with a twist and a back extension with a twist. This will hit your rotational strength right away.

You can then progress up to standing on your feet doing several different variations of rotational movements with a single dumbbell, standing upright and also in your golf posture.

When you approach your golf improvement program with a core exercise for golf, you will see your driving distance sky rocket past your playing partners!

About The Author: Mike Pedersen is the featured expert for Golf Magazine’s GolfOnline.com site, one of the top golf fitness experts in the country, author and founder of several cutting-edge online golf fitness sites. Take a look at his just released golf fitness dvds and manual at his golf swing trainer site – Perform Better Golf.

DrFloras Cleanse – an Exceptional Product

• March 28th, 2009

Order DrFloras Cleanse And Confidently Clean Out The Colon

Having a toxic colon can be extremely hazardous to your health. Be this as it may, obtaining toxins are inevitable. When your colon is filled with toxic waste build up, your body produces excess gas. By having a toxic waste build up in your intestines, your body is more susceptible to becoming bloated. A toxic colon often leads to constipation and thorough discomfort. By using drfloras cleanse, toxins can be removed from the body easily.

The act of colon cleansing has been occurring since the beginning of time, or at least since the beginning of recorded history. In fact, the practice of colon cleansing has been documented as having been going on from as early as 1500 B.C. in Egypt. This practice of colon cleansing has been going on since the beginning of our time, or at least since the beginning of recorded history as has been documented. The benefits of colon cleansing are simply just too hard to ignore. Colon cleansing truly can be a life saver, as well as a body purifier, which is why we still practice colon cleansing now, so many years, centuries, even a millennium later. One great colon cleansing system that many doctors would recommend would be drfloras cleanse. It is merely because colon cleansing is so important to your health, for the benefits of colon cleansing are simply too hard to ignore.

Demolish Parasites From Colon With DrFloras Cleanse

The drfloras system is a gentle, oral, dietary supplement that cleanses your colon. This colon cleanser has completely all natural ingredients, which ensures its safety. It also makes you feel much less tired and fatigued. Parasites can cause loss of appetite, poor vision, sleep problems and irritability. Many people have used this great colon cleanser to not only cleanse their colon, but to also lose weight and to decrease feelings of tiredness and fatigue.

Great Books to Listen to: a Perfect Way to Fit them into Your Life

• March 27th, 2009

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Pimsleur Greek (Modern) I Part 1 by Dr. Paul Pimsleur might be a gratifying book, however busy lives make that difficult to do. Long journeys to the office and other activities might take up enormous portions of time everyday. Your favorite hobbies get set to the side for other more urgent projects. You could simply use the hours spent doing housework to get up to date on novels you can’t get around to reading. With user-friendly downloads, it’s simple to indulge in Mary Mary by James Patterson by Download Audio Book Online, or audiobooks brought to life by Lois P. Frankel without ever picking up a book. Nowadays multi-tasking has become the norm. Audio books such as Pimsleur Albanian Compact by Dr. Paul Pimsleur for sale from Download Audio Book Online take advantage of the dead minutes in our daily routine, whether it’s minutes passed waiting at the dentist’s surgery or driving the kids to music lessons. Audio books are now for sale to download as mp3 data files for instance Pimsleur English for Korean Speakers I Part 1 by Dr. Paul Pimsleur, so grab your mp3 player and take the opportunity to hear a best seller or a fantastic novel, like audio-books by Jerry Stearns & Brian Price without dragging cumbersome books around. Audiobooks provide various benefits like the ability to rent or buy many titles and peruse them at your leisure. Do you wish to study French? Try audio-books! It’s easy to catch up on the very latest business practises, or you can enjoy mulling over current thoughts in religious belief. Audio-books exist in a massive variety of titles and genres. Whether you like history, or you are crazy over love stories or even if your interested in self-help, most can be downloaded immediately. Choices are wide open; you can easily take a subscription to a rental program or buy them outright.

Reading will always have its place, however a more convenient way could be the myriad of audio titles now available. A author or actor can enhance the enjoyment of many novels. Simply reading a novel is not the same as enjoying audio titles recounted by Janette Oke, with nuances presented during a rendidtion. Your reading experience will be increased by listening to an audio book like Murder on the Run: A Ronnie Ventana Mystery by Gloria White and can convey more than words on a page.

So the next time in future should you are thinking of buying the hard copy of a book you might not get around to reading, think of an audio-book as a better option.

7 Ways To Slash Your Golf Score

• March 27th, 2009

There’s a lot to learn for new golfers, and those who are looking to improve their game. Some of the areas you’ll receive instruction on, are:

1 Approaching the tee: It sounds simple, but if you watch the professionals, they do it the same every time. Consistency in preparation gives you a solid beginning to the game. A professional will teach you the basics, but you’ll develop the style that gives you the most comfort and best mental attitude.

2 Preparation: Everything from lining up the shot, to grip, stance and breathing. How to tee up, using a club to align your shot, and tuning out the distractions around you. Then how and where to make contact with the ball for the furthest and most accurate drive.

3 The swing: The drive off the tee is going to set up your progression for the entire hole. Getting power behind it can be one of the most important aspects to your swing. You’ll learn how to use your body to “wind up”, facing the tee at a 90 degree angle to the direction of your drive, then swinging back with your right arm until the left is straight, and the upper body only is turning slightly to the right. The downswing puts the power behind the ball as you make contact with the wood, and continue on through with your body, until your abdomen faces the direction of the hole.

4 Putting it on the fairway: Blowing the first shot isn’t the end of your game. But it can make recovery a lot harder. You’ll be taught how to visualize your shot going where you want, and how to maintain your balance on the follow through, so that a last minute bobble, doesn’t make a dog leg out of your drive.

5 Making mid-distance shots: How to use your irons for the best chance of getting on the green and closer to the cup. Recovering from a bad position on the fairway, and getting back into position for making a birdie shot.

6 The tough shots: Instructors will show you how to deal with the shots that go wrong, and land you in the rough, or a sand trap. Good sand shots are possible when you learn how to adjust swing speed, and the angle at which your club face connects to the ball. Roughing it out of a tough spot can also be a matter of consistency in how you approach the shot, including standing closer so there is less chance of contacting grass on the downswing, opening up the club face for more loft, and remembering that hitting off a rough is going to take away your backspin.

7 Putting it in the cup: A putting primer that will teach you how to approach a shot on the green, no matter what the angle, rise, or grass that’s between you and the flag.

Do You Prefer the Spanish National Lottery or the Euro Millions

• March 21st, 2009

On December 2008 e-lottery added the Spanish National lottery to its product range, affording participants globally a immensely bettered chance of sharing in this immense Spanish lotto prize fund.

If its the first time you have come across the Spanish Lottery, allow me to highlight simply how crucial this lotto is to the vast majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lottery has been a national obsession in Spain for a very long time with immense involvement generated by the Christmas draw every year. Believe it or not ninety-eight% of the population play this Spanish National lottery every Christmas.

There are a couple of great reasons why so many Spanish subjects join in the Christmas El Gordo draw.

First Off, on that point is the inducement of the largest lottery prize fund of any international lotto game – 2.20 Billion Euros! Second, there are more than 13,000 money prizes to be won. Lastly, the probability of picking up a money prize on the Christmas lottery draw is a extremely attainable – 1 : 6.

With the amount of interest thats given to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, a good deal of people are oblivious that there is five additional Spanish Lottery draws each year as well. These lotto games happen in January, March, May, July and November. Even though these five games do not boast the huge prize fund of the Christmas draw, they are big all the same, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros. Plus, these games offer virtually three times as many prizes as the Christmas lotto draw plus odds of collecting a money prize of an staggering one in three.

The Christmas Spanish lottery works in a different way to virtually all other worldwide drawings. A whole lotto ticket ‘billete’ is very costly, costing two hundred Euros. However, these lottery tickets are broken up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing 20 Euros each.

When purchasing your lottery tickets you have the choice of buying one decimo, a complete lotto ticket, or a part of a lotto ticket. If you do not purchase the full lottery ticket, somebody else will buy the remainder of your ticket. For Instance, if you purchase two decimos, somebody else purchases three decimos and someone else purchases five and your lotto ticket wins 1000 Euros, then you will receive 200 Euros, three hundred Euros and 500 Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of buying an entire lottery ticket, it is not unusual for families and friends to mix their lottery money and each purchase a separate ‘decimo’ 10th.

Clinton Supporters Not Switching to Obama

• March 20th, 2009

Hitherto contenders for the US presidency, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have recently put on a show of unity at a New Hampshire rally. For now though, amidst quite dissent among her sulking flock, there is little in the way the New York senator could get them to follow her lead. Wounds don’t just close four weeks since the longest primary campaign in modern American history drew to a close — after 17 months. It was no surprise then that a survey conducted in the first week of July showed that supporting Obama is still a tall order for Hillary fans. Conducted by Opinion Research Corp. for CNN, the poll disclosed that merely 54% of Clinton backers would cast their ballot for Obama. The same survey showed in early June that 60% percent had wanted to support the Illinois senator’s bid to become the first black US president. Rather than voting for anyone, the surveyed Clinton supporters opined they would just stay home in November. Denial mode, it is. Around 43% of Democrats polled still want Hillary to be the presidential nominee. Her supporters are entitled to go through these motions. But if this phase turns into a full-blown grudge by November, then Obama better watch this sector. For Obama to make inroads into Clinton’s camp now, he’s got to choose her as running mate. However, opposite a woman with sixteen years of experience in Washington, he runs the risk of tainting his promise of “change.”

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