Workout Program

[progolf4life]

For the past two months now I have been working out on a solid schedule and have been in clean. I've put on 20lbs in this time. I went from eating two meals a day to five with a snack or two. The program I was on was about gaining size and strength. I've gained a lot of strength so far in this time and look pretty good aswell. Now I'm looking into specific golf related programs. Is it more effectice to stay on this size and strength training program or go to a program more suited to explosive power, strength, and flexibility? I'm looking to increase my SS as my main goal but to also gain more control.

[logan91201]

For the past two months now I have been working out on a solid schedule and have been in clean. I've put on 20lbs in this time. I went from eating two meals a day to five with a snack or two. The program I was on was about gaining size and strength. I've gained a lot of strength so far in this time and look pretty good aswell. Now I'm looking into specific golf related programs. Is it more effectice to stay on this size and strength training program or go to a program more suited to explosive power, strength, and flexibility? I'm looking to increase my SS as my main goal but to also gain more control.

 

20 pounds in 2 months is a HUGE gain. Congrats. I don't know what kind of frame your working with but you can't keep that rate of gain forever. Without actual golf specific direction I would tell you to just incorporate some major stretching routines into your program. I do yoga to keep me loose because I like to lift a lot. "Real men do yoga" is the book I use. It has Eddie George on the cover and lots of athletes in the book. Also an excerpt about Ty Tryon.

 

Some people here are going to come in and tell you to stop lifting and just do core work and plyometrics. While I agree those are great for golf, so is strengthening the rest of your muscles. Maybe design a golf workout working on your explosiveness and core muscles and replace one or two of your lifting days with that. But keep the lifting going too. While incorporating yoga or some other effective stretching program. Haha its a lot and you have to find what is good for you, but all I'm really saying is keep getting stronger and stretch those muscles!

[progolf4life]

Thanks for the reply. I know that it's a huge gain in that time period but a lot of people get 'noob' gains when starting out. The process has already started to slow. Plus, I went from eating 2-3 small meals a day to 5 meals which is a substantial difference in calories. I may have gained a little to fast to start with but it's nothing to worry about. Better than gaining too little and I'm still growing.

[tigerphan]

*Starbuck - you'll never make it, there are already millions coffee shops and major manufacturers of coffee; no place for you.

**Microsoft - MSDOS? who would use it, even the inventor does not think it'll fly. PC? IBM did not think it'll be significant, only main frame counts.

*** Boo Weekly, Ryan Moore, Mike weir, Vijay Sign.......no way they could have survived on the PGA, who are they??????

 

That is until they started making headline, until they had proved they could live their dream.

 

 

What about the guy who was found to have been marking his ball way closer to the hole in Open Qualifying and was subsequently DQ'd and banned from Pro golf for life??

I'm sure Mat has the details!....Think Robertson was his name?

 

I do remember it mate. David Robertson was the lad's name I think and it was the year of Sandy Lyle's win I think in 1985. I think it was in final qualifying.

 

As I remember he was taking the mickey a bit and moving the thing about 15 feet at a time and had previously been caught fudging - hence the harsh punishment presumably. His technique was to dash up to the green ahead of his playing partners and pick up his ball before hiding the coin in the back of his Ping Anser so he could plonk it down a bit nearer without being caught bang to rights.

 

Sadly, his playing partners weren't completely stupid and he got hammered.

 

 

For the past two months now I have been working out on a solid schedule and have been in clean. I've put on 20lbs in this time. I went from eating two meals a day to five with a snack or two. The program I was on was about gaining size and strength. I've gained a lot of strength so far in this time and look pretty good aswell. Now I'm looking into specific golf related programs. Is it more effectice to stay on this size and strength training program or go to a program more suited to explosive power, strength, and flexibility? I'm looking to increase my SS as my main goal but to also gain more control.

 

Just curious what was your workout program

Thx