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Mike Pedersen
helps to educate golfers of all ages and all
walks of life. Author of the four GolfTrainer
on-line books and has designed all the customized
golf-specific strength training, flexibility
training, and cardiovascular exercise programs.
He has trained and educated people in exercise
and nutrition for more than 17 years.
Mike will be here every
month exclusively for you - providing golf
fitness recommendations, over 90 exercise
instructions and video demonstrations, customized
programs, golf fit tips, golf fitness profile and
assessment, and much more!
JUNE, 2001
Fitness becoming more important
in golf training
Injuries have
always been part of golf, but only recently have
health and fitness professionals have addressed
treatment and prevention issues specifically for
golf.
As many as 62
percent of golfers suffer some kind of injury
during a given year, said Paine, the sports
medicine director for HealthSouth in Houston. The
most common injuries involve the back, left wrist
and left elbow.
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PREVIOUS MONTH TIPS:
Effects of Strength and
Flexibility Training on Golf Performance
Twenty-two
golfers were involved in the study: 17 people
went through the program and 5 were control
subjects. Nobody played golf during the 8-week
period. To assess golf performance, everyone was
tested for club head speed before and after the
conditioning program. Other assessment included
body composition, muscle strength, and joint
flexibility.
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The Missing Link
To improve
your golf performance and longevity, not only is
it important to have the right equipment and a
good teaching professional, but also an improved
level of fitness. Regardless of your age, gender,
or skill level, participating consistently in a
golf-specific exercise program can greatly
improve your golf game, as well as your quality
of life off the course.
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Stretch your way to Better Golf
Flexibility
is the buzzword in the golf world! The more
flexible a golfer is the better chance he/or she
has at making an optimal backswing, and producing
maximum clubhead speed. There is still some
controversy over which flexibility exercises are
the best for golf and how often you should
stretch.
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Mike's
athletic career spans more than 30 years and
culminated in Track and Field where he was
regionally (Pac 10) and nationally ranked in the
javelin from 1982 to 1987; Mike made All Pac 10
in 1983. After graduating from Oregon
State University with a Bachelor
of Science in Exercise Physiology,
he moved on to decathlon competition and was a
nationally-ranked decathlete for Canada from 1987
to 1989. Mike has been certified by the American
Council on Exercise since 1986. He worked as
fitness director of a major health club chain and
has had his own private fitness business for 13
years.
When his
track-and-field career wound down, Mike picked up
golf recreationally, then became obsessed with
the game. "I bought every video, took every
lesson I could, and read books to understand the
golf swing." Mike's passion for the sport,
plus his ongoing interest in fitness, brought him
to his career as a Golf Fitness Professional.
At first,
Mike began studying the golf swing just to
improve his own game (he plays to a single-digit
handicap and can consistently drive the ball over
300 yards!). Then he began applying his knowledge
of anatomy and biomechanics of the swing to the
individual golfers he works with. He has run the
Golf Fitness program at Desert Mountain Golf
Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, one of the
premier private golf clubs in the United States
with five golf courses and a sixth in the works
as well as a state-of-the-art fitness facility.
Golf
Fitness Author, Teacher, and Coach
Mike has
given many seminars on Fitness for Golf to
golfers at all levels and of all ages as well as
to teaching golf pros. He has written extensively
on this subject, and published articles include
"Get Fit To Play Better Golf" (Sun
Golf Magazine) "Golf Fitness: The
Missing Link" (Arizona Golf Association
Magazine) "Play Consistently for 18
Holes" (Sun Golf Magazine), and
"Hit It Longer And Straighter" (Arizona
Golfer).
"My
goal is to educate golfers of all levels,
including teaching pros, about the benefits of
having a more flexible, fit body for playing
optimal golf through golf-specific strength and
flexibility training. Spending hundreds of
dollars on equipment and lessons will provide
minimal improvement unless the physical
limitations of the golfer are addressed."
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