Golf Equipment for Lower Golf Scores

pub-0851756398636176 Golf Equipment for Lower Golf Scores If you are a golfer in today’s world of high-tech swing improvement equipment, you should not have any problems lowering your golf score by at least 3 to 10 strokes just by re-stocking your golf bag. Let’s start with the most important item in your golf bag -- Your Golf Ball. It has been determined by the golf professionals and golf associations that 80% of today’s golfers are using the wrong golf ball for their swing speed. You should be carrying a ball that fits your swing and not the one that the top 100 players in the world use. Well, you might be asking how I determine my swing speed. It’s simple. You personally don’t have to do it. Find the nearest golf shop that has a golf simulator and let the salesperson assist you. Simply ask for a ball fitting using your own clubs that you practice and play with most of the time. He should be able to match your swing speed with the ball that is going to give you the accuracy and distance that you can achieve with your swing. Now that you have the correct ball to play with, let’s move on to the correct putter. The best putter is the one that allows you to place your eyes directly over the top of the ball comfortably and lets you make a straight back and forth putting stroke. Make that the grip is not too small or large so that the palms of both hands are aligned opposite of each other. A good putter should be balance, not too heavy and not too light. Ask the golf shop to let you practice with two or three putters on your home course. Hit ten putts with each putter for equal distances. You will immediately see the differences and make the right choice. Here’s where you must make the right decision - Choosing the right wedges. First of all you carry at least three wedges in your bag to post the best score for a given round. Find a 56 degree sand wedge, a 52 degree gap wedge, and 48 degree pitching wedge. The 48 degree pitching wedge usually comes with your iron set, but replace if it doesn’t fit your swing. The 56 degree wedge is good for sand shots and chipping around the green. You should also practice hitting 80 to 90 yards. The 52 degree gap wedge is great for high spinning shots from 95 to 110 yards to the flag. For the rest of your irons, carry only 9-iron through 6-iron. Here’s why. Today’s hybrid clubs out perform the 5 iron through 3 iron part of your set. They are more forgiving and flight the ball higher with greater distances. So make the move to a 5-hybrid, 4-hybrid, and a 3-hybrid. Now here come the set-up clubs - the 5-wood, 3-wood, and the driver. These clubs set the tone for the hole. A good 5 wood shot measuring 210 -220 yards from the tee box is much better than a 270-290 yard driver in the trees. For every fairway you miss adds at least a half stroke to your score. So, find a good 5 wood and make it your “go to” club to settle you down in the middle of a round. The 3- wood is going to be your best friend on the tee box. Always consider using a 3 wood first on par 4’s and 5’s where added distance is required. Hit more 3 woods and watch your scores go down simply because most golf courses lure you into hitting driver and then place hazards to penalized you if you don’t execute the shot as well as planned. Find a 3-wood with generous loft and a shaft flex that fits your swing. As for the driver, hit this club sparingly if you really won’t to post a good score. A well hit three wood will most likely find the fairway and you will sacrifice only 20-25 yards in distance. Remember - Fairways tromp Distance 70 to 80 percent of the time. Do like the pros, Don’t gamble, Play the Percentages! If just can’t fight the “Grip it and Rip it” temptation, find a good fitting driver and spend lots of time on the driving range. Find out you worst fault when using your driver and guard against it every time you use it. For instance, if you tend to hook your driver and the hole you are playing has out-of-bounds or water on the left , use a 3 wood or hybrid and wait for the hold that has plenty of room on the left side and unload with your driver. So let’s summarize. You have the right golf ball, a good putter, 3 fine wedges, 9-iron through 6-iron, 5-hybrid through 3-hybrid, 5-wood, 3-wood, and a driver that you can rip at the right time. But that’s only 13 clubs and you can carry 14 legally. Here’s a little less-know secret - carry a chipper for the 14th club. This club will make you a better chipper of the golf instantly. Try it and lower your scores!!!

Live Gluten Free!!!

How to Transition Into a Gluten Free Lifestyle Relatively Painlessly

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Discovering you are intolerant or allergic to gluten (a condition called celiac) can be devastating and frustrating. Doctors and dietitians often offer a laundry list of foods to avoid, but no strategies about how to live with this diet. Here's how you can transition into this culinary lifestyle with no problems.

Steps

1. Have a pity party. Get a party hat or tiara, a CD that makes you feel sad, a box of your favorite "now off limits" treats, and tissues. Eat yourself sick while you glare at your restricted list and really wallow in how sad you feel about this life change. You may have many times in the future where you'll feel sorry for yourself, but this initial wallow takes the edge off.
2. Do not replace a single thing with a gluten-free alternative! Gluten-free (GF) alternatives, such as pastas, flours, bakery goods, breads, waffles, etc., are an acquired taste and trying to replace familiar foods with them may only make you feel discouraged. Your mouth needs time to adjust to different flavors so, unless you were raised with a widely varied diet, steer clear of alternatives for awhile.
3. Look at your current diet and through your pantry and refrigerator to find the foods and meals you already eat that are gluten-free. You may need to keep a food journal for a week or two if you haven't already. Be sure to list condiments, ice creams, produce, snacks, and other foods. This list will be helpful as you create menus around your new restrictions and give you encouragement that you're already on the right track!
4. Give yourself permission to eat things that you may have restricted from your diet before your diagnosis. Potato chips may not be appropriate for other people, but they are a staple in a GF diet. You will need to find treats for yourself as you adjust to this diet. Count calories after you are comfortable with your new way of eating, manage your portions instead. It's all about taking baby steps!
5. Look at your current menus and meals and find ways to eliminate gluten from your diet.
   • Replace bread in sandwiches with green leaf lettuce and add your favorite fixings and condiments. Have breakfast burritos with corn tortillas instead of toast and eggs; to up the "yummy" factor in otherwise dry corn tortillas, spray with non-stick spray, salt if desired, and warm in a frying pay until pliable.
   • Look for GF hot and cold cereals(must not have barley malt) and have those handy for a snack or meal. Replace bread and crackers with potato chips, tortilla or corn chips, rice cakes or popcorn. For example, chicken or tuna salad on rice cakes or scooped onto potato chips is delicious. Fondue dips well with popcorn or tortilla chips and Fritos make excellent croutons in salads. Popcorn is a filling side dish with soup.
   • Drop bakery goods for awhile, and find other gluten-free treats instead. Treat yourself to exotic chocolates, ice creams, or candies that are GF. Have pasta toppings on rice, polenta, or baked potatoes (to make easy baked potatoes just wash and scrub the potatoes, wrap individually in foil, and bake in a crockpot for about 7 hours on low - perfect every time!).
   • Be on the lookout for meals on your current menus or the menus of friends and family that are naturally gluten-free (roasted chicken, mashed potatoes and steamed veggies, for example) and make them a staple on your new menus.
   • Surf the internet, watch cooking shows and browse magazines for ideas and adapt them as you see fit. Bento boxes (Japanese lunches) are excellent and leaves room for creative and enjoyable meals often leaving others envious! A good example of a Bento Box is cubed or sliced luncheon meat or salami, cubed cheese, mixed olives, cucumber/tomato/bell pepper salad vinaigrette, chips and chocolates.
6. Really consider what are your favorite parts of your current meals. Also, make sure your presentation is enticing, which makes the food more enjoyable and makes you feel spoiled.
7. Clear out any and all foods that have gluten, wheat, wheat flour, oats, oat flour, rye, semolina, or modified food starch from your pantry. This will allow you to see how close you are to living gluten-free already. If you have family members living with you who are not gluten-free, you might consider giving the "offending edibles" to them to be put in another part of the house while you learn to live and think gluten-free.
8. Plan and prepare your meals ahead of time. Being caught hungry without a plan is a recipe for disaster! Keep a few GF soups in your larder in case of extreme hunger and no plan. It helps to outline and pack any meals you're eating at home and away from home, including snacks. An example could be:
   • Breakfast: corn tortilla breakfast burritos, sliced apples, and coffee. #*Lunch: "lettucewich" with turkey, cheese, avocado slices, tomato, mayo and mustard, 1 oz. chips, and 2 chocolates.
   • Dinner: BBQ chicken on potatoes, coleslaw, and chocolate sundaes.
   • Snacks: 1 oz. almonds and popcorn.
9. When you feel courageous, add a gluten-free alternative to a meal. Celebrate your courage even if you didn't care for the item - you stepped outside your comfort zone! Well done! Your mouth may not be ready for it now, but try it again in a few months to see if your mouth has adjusted to flavor alternatives. You may have to find ways to make GF alternatives more enticing. For example, rice bread is not delicious unless it has been toasted - and even then it's best open-faced as it doesn't lend itself to "sandwich style" eating(rice bread doesn't have the same "give" that wheat bread has).

Tips

• If you're desperate for a bakery good, try this one.
  • Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake: 3 c. GF flour (try Bob's Red Mill GF All Purpose Flour Mix or make your own using 2 c. white rice flour, 2/3 c. potato starch and 1/3 c. tapioca flour), 1 1/2 t. xanthan gum (this is a MUST - it's pricey, but makes all the difference in GF baking), 2 1/4 t. baking powder, 1 1/2 t. baking soda, 1/3 c. unsweetened baking cocoa, 2 c. sugar, 1 1/2 t. vanilla, 1 1/2 c. mayonnaise (can be egg-free), 1 1/2 c. hot water, Chocolate chips - optional (you can use this option instead of frosting, then dust the cake with powdered sugar). Mix everything but the hot water (and chocolate chips if using) together. Gradually mix in the hot water and mix until smooth. Stir in the chocolate chips. Pour into your favorite prepared cake pan (bundt, sheet or layer) and bake at 350 until the cake pulls from the sides of the pan (when you can smell the cake, start checking it). Frost with your favorite GF frosting (you'll probably have to make your own). For a different twist, add 1 t. cinnamon to batter and dust with a powdered sugar/cinnamon mix.
• Be patient with yourself. You'll have days when being gluten-free is really horrendous and you'll feel sorry for yourself (maybe even "fall off the wagon"). This is normal. Relax on yourself and ride the discouragement wave.
• Carry snacks with you wherever you go. It's often difficult to find an appropriate snack when you get hungry.
• Arrange with the hosts of gatherings you may attend to bring your own sides or complete meals. Most people are very supportive of restricted diets.
• Buy an electronic food scale to keep your portions in check. An ounce of chips is just about enough at a meal, but it's easy to eat the whole bag.
• Consider avoiding restaurants during your transition phase as you learn how to eat and think gluten-free. Grilled meats (over a flame), baked potatoes and salads (sans croutons) are usually safe bets. But keep a log of places you eat, what you ate and how you felt afterward. Gluten is insidious and can turn up in the oddest places (french fries, for example).
• Get your hands on cookbooks by Bette Hagman or Carol Fenster, if you can, for background knowledge into this culinary lifestyle.
• Carry digestive aids with you in case of accidental ingestion.
• Consider taking a multi-vitamin to make up for vitamins and minerals you may lack with your new diet (ask your doctor if necessary).
• Consider making one particular item your "out to dinner treat".
• Find a mentor if you can.

Warnings

• Well meaning people may not understand why you can't "just have it this once" or will present you with a dish they think is acceptable, but upon scrutiny, is not. Thank them profusely and succinctly explain why you can't eat the item (I have included graphic details of my symptoms to the heavy gluten pushers so they get a clear picture of the misery I'll have later). Most people are understanding, and may ask questions about your condition. Answer as honestly as you feel comfortable.
• Never assume you'll find something to eat anywhere you go. Bring along something just in case.
• Nobody wants to hear you complain about your restricted diet. It will be hard in the beginning to not stay in a constant pity party, but finding and celebrating treats and successes is more fun to be around.

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Get your Abs Fit to Play Golf

How to Get a Flat Stomach

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Stomach feeling flabby or just want to do a little toning up to get it looking good? Let these tips be your guide.

Ingredients

It is advised to take food as raw food in order to avoid the loss of enzymes that get lost when the food is cooked to temperatures greater than 118°F (48°C). Moreover, if the food is consumed in raw state, it contains more natural fat which is healthy. It has also been proved that cooking food decreases its nutritive value. Some of the best raw foods are

• Apple
• Avocado
• Cabbage
• Carrot
• Cauliflower
• Celery
• Cucumber
• Zucchini
• Lettuce
• Onion
• Pear
• Tomato
• Watercress
• Beaten Wheat

Steps

1. Eat healthier and cut down junk food, such as replacing potato chips and chocolates with fruits. You'll see a world of difference.
2. Watch how many soft drinks you consume. Drink water instead of soda. Consider flavored water as an alternative if you must.
3. Do aerobic exercises daily at 30 minutes minimum and include 1-2 days of rest break each week. Anything that brings your heart rate up. Take up dancing, running, tae-bo, swimming, and walking at a good pace.
4. Eat lots of lean protein (like beans and nuts - have some meat, it is rather good for you as long as you do not eat the fat!), fruits and dark vegetables, and whole grain breads and grains. If you eat "whole wheat" it's like the same as eating white bread; except with white bread all the good fibers have been stripped away. These "whole grains" keep you fuller longer than white breads like cakes, cookies, and sweets. Also, stay away from high-fat dairy products (low-fat dairy products are a great source of protein and calcium).
5. To better work the entire abdominal region, vary your exercises: Crunches work the upper abdomen, leg raises work the lower abdomen, side bends work the obliques (also known as love handles). Sure, you can do 100 daily crunches. But if you've got a layer of fat covering up your ab work then what's the point? You need to burn the top layer of stomach fat to see the changes.
6. Consider some form of anaerobic exercise as well. Some simple resistance training or light weight lifting will not only help you burn fat more efficiently but tone up the rest of your body as well.
7. Raising your metabolic rate is crucial. The higher your metabolic rate, the more energy (and thus fat) you'll burn even when you aren't doing anything. Try compound exercises like deadlifts with heavier weights. See "How to Do a Deadlift" for more information.
8. To increase your metabolic rate, increase the frequency of your meals to 6-8 times a day. Every 2 to 3 hours, ingest a small meal. This increased frequency will put your metabolisim into overdrive. WARNING: Do not over-eat! Small meals only. For greatest effect, only eat carbohydrates before 2:00 p.m, from then on only proteins.
9. Do a lot of cardio.
10. Make sure you don't eat anything 2 hours before you sleep. Your body slows down when you sleep so you can't digest food properly. And if you go to bed really late, don't eat past 9:30 pm, because food eaten after 9:30 pm are normally stored as fat.
11. Some of the best exercise for achieving flat stomach are Abdominal Crunches, Vaccum Pose and Belly Rubs, Stomach Twisting, Belly Resting Exercise, Russian Twist, Hip Raise Exercise, Dumbbell Side Bends, Leg Lift Exercise, Air Cycling, Knees In and Out, Sit Ups, Inclined Sit Ups, Front Squat, Reverse Crunches, Ball Crunches, Log Roll, Ab Tuck, The Crab Ab Workout, Side Crunches, V Crunches, Chin Up Crunches, Hanging Leg Raise and Hanging Knee Raise.

Video

This video shows instructions slightly different than that described in the text steps above.

Tips

• Going to see a personal trainer or a doctor can help greatly as they can give you a dietary/work-out plan that will help you keep at your desired weight rather than going over it alone.
• Get someone to work out with you so you'll inspire each other. If you can't find anyone, try imagining you are with someone you know, a celebrity or an athlete with abs you admire (this usually works better than actually working out with the said athlete). Pretend they're with you as you work out.
• Music will also do wonders to get a workout moving along! Make sure it's upbeat and motivating.
• While crunches are good for your abdominal muscles, make sure that you have a well-rounded weight loss program. Millions of crunches won't help if you eat buckets of ice cream every day!
• Be patient! Some people find it harder to obtain a flat stomach than others, as this is dependent on your own personal fitness level.
• Doing crunches on an exercise ball will specifically target your abdominal muscles, while doing them on the floor strengthens mostly hip muscle. Just the act of balancing on the ball alone will help tone abdominal muscles.
• Find something that you enjoy doing that involves a lot of movement, for example jogging, biking, wiifit, etc.
• Drinking more water can help flush out toxins from your body.
• Cut out refined carbs. Foods such as white bread, pastas, potatoes, and white rice are rich in refined carbs and should be taken out of your diet. They have less nutrients and vitamins then the non refined kinds. Eat brown rice and whole wheat bread instead.
• Drink more herbal tea, such as green tea, as this will help you lose the saturated fats in your body. Drinking without the addition of milk, sugar, or honey is best.

Warnings

• Do NOT starve yourself! If you do, your results will be temporary and you will feel frustrated sooner (and will give up quicker). When you starve yourself, your body goes into something called "starvation mode" and it causes your body to slow down your metabolism (the thing that digests your food) and causes minimal weight loss. While you might think that by not eating completely is most effective, in essence, it could do permanent harm to your body as well as make it hard to keep off the weight.
• Don't go overboard with the crunches. Your body will tell you when you need to rest. Take a quick break, deep breaths, and then continue until your workout is complete.

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• How to Get Six Pack Abs
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Hi Everyoner,  This is my first Blog.  So many of my Golf buddies are getting hurt just playing golf.  I wanted to find ways to prevent golf related injuries and continue to play golf for a life-time.  Any ideas, suggestions, remedies, or cures?