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Jet Fuel For Your Golf Swing
from: Sean CochranImproving your golf swing, golf game, and scores on the golf
course hinges upon a lot of factors. Obviously, improving your
golf swing, putting, short game, and golf course management will
help. Most golfers, not all golfers mind you, ignore their golf
fitness. Is your body strong, flexible, and powerful? Can your
body fuel your golf swing, and what about the fuel for your
body?
Are you giving your body the right fuel to play well on the golf
course? Yes, we are talking about nutrition, usually a topic
that is overlooked, ignored, and certainly not fun to talk
about, but an important part of improving your golf game.
Essentially, what you put into your body has a direct affect of
what you get out of it on the golf course, and in your golf
swing.
It is key on the golf course to provide your body with the right
fuel during the course of a round. The pros do it all the time.
You see them eating bananas, peanuts, and drinking water.
Can you imagine what happens if Tour players do not fuel their
body for a round of golf? They would go bonk! Bonk as in what
can happen to a marathon runner at mile 23. Running out of
energy is what we are talking about. If the Tour player does not
provide their bodies with good fuel during the round, the body
will begin to "fizzle". Once the body goes, mental focus can
slip, and a good score can go south very quickly.
The amateur can learn from what the pros do on the golf course.
Fueling their bodies with poor sources of fuel is the worse
thing you can do for your game, whether you are playing a casual
round or in the heat of competition. Grabbing that soda and
candy bar at the turn does not necessarily help you. Sodas and
candy bars with all their sugar is burned by the body very
quickly, leaving you out of energy and feeling sluggish on hole
number eleven.
Good fuel sources for athletics are foods such as nuts, fruits,
and water can keep you going strong for the entire round. We
should also not forget about what we eat before the round. Often
times an early morning tee time means skipping breakfast. We
just grab a cup of joe and head to the range. Not eating a good
meal before the round may not show up on the first tee, but once
you hit the middle of round. Your stomach and swing will be
telling you different.
Bottom line; eat a good meal before your round. If you have an
early tee time grab something quick, but something in the body.
If you are playing late in the day, make sure you have a good
lunch.
Looking at the bigger picture of fueling your golf swing and
golf game. It comes down to nutrition.
The "nitty gritty" of nutrition is pretty simple. We have fats,
proteins, and carbohydrates. There are good and bad fats,
proteins, and carbs. Eat the good ones your okay. Eat to much of
the bad ones your not.
A quick look at all three categories should help.
Fats:
Fats can be either "good" or "bad". Goof fats can used by the
body for fuel and are good to eat. Bad fats are exactly the
opposite. Good fats (olive oil and avocados) are used by the
body for fuel. Bad fats (butter and bacon) are not used
efficiently by the body.
Proteins:
Proteins are the "building blocks" of the body. They help repair
and build tissue. Good proteins: lean cuts of beef, chicken,
turkey, nuts and eggs are good. Bad proteins: proteins with high
levels of "bad fats" or cooked in "bad fats" are less beneficial
to the body.
Carbohydrates:
Carbohydrates are the main fuel source of the body. Every
carbohydrate is essentially sugar. What separates good
carbohydrates from bad ones is the rate at which they are
"burned" by the body. Bad carbohydrates consist mainly of simple
sugars, which are burned very quickly by the body. Good
carbohydrates consist of complex sugars that are burned slowly
by the body. Bottom line; eat good carbohydrate sources. Sources
of good carbohydrates are beans, apples, all-bran cereal, whole
grain bread. Bad carbohydrates to avoid are any food with a lot
of simple sugars like candy, jellybeans, doughnuts, white bread,
sodas, and white pastas.
Bottom line when it comes to improving your golf swing, golf
game, golf fitness, or health in general, you must provide your
body with good fuel sources. It is okay to eat a few bad fuel
sources once and awhile, but the key is moderation. Don't go
overboard with the bacon, doughnuts, and sodas.
Nutrition must be thought of as a long-term process, just like
improving your golf game. You must have a plan in place, be
patient, dedicated, and committed. Work hard on your nutrition
and it will pay dividends in your golf swing, golf game, and
life in general.
Sean Cochran
About the author:
Sean Cochran is one of the most recognized golf fitness
instructors in the world today. He travels the PGA Tour
regularly with 2005 PGA & 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. To contact Sean, you can
email him at support@bioforcegolf.com.
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