Play Better Longer: Reducing Golf Related Injury

On the surface golf may look to be a slow paced low impact sport with little risk of injury. However, as many golfers have unfortunately discovered looks can be deceiving. The Physician and Sports Medicine Journal reports 57% to 67.5% of all golfers will sustain some type of golf related injury.

Scientifically speaking our body was not designed to swing a golf club. During the swing strong compression, shear, and torsion force is produced placing our spine, joints and muscles at a relatively high risk for injury. The golf swing is an explosive movement that demands precise coordination of muscle contraction and relaxation, postural stability, strength, balance and body awareness. That is not to say we cannot swing a golf club without these elements. The body does a great job in compensating for weakness and faulty movement. However, there is a downside to this compensation. The downside is inconsistency, loss of power, and overuse of certain muscles which often leads to muscle and joint pain and injury.

many golfers spend hours upon hours practicing their swing with little or no time devoted to training their bodies. this type of golf preparation usually results in two things: 1. Inconsistency 2. Aches and pains

So how does the golfer reduce their risk of injury? By establishing and maintaining core strength, muscle balance and flexibility by participating in a well developed integrated exercise program. Increased muscular efficiency and flexibility allow you to increase power and consistency while drastically reducing chances of pain and injury.

Beware; all golf fitness programs are not created equal. There are many programs out there that are merely body building or general strength training routines masquerading as golf fitness programs. These programs generally focus on training specific muscles or muscle groups with little attention paid to movement. Lying flat on a bench and pushing weight off your chest or doing biceps curls that isolate one single joint movement will hardly translate to improved performance on the golf course. In fact, many of the standard gym exercises found in such programs further disrupt muscle balance and postural stability and can increase risk of injry.

There are other golf fitness programs out there that claim to strengthen golf muscles by promoting exercises that mimic the golf swing. There are two problems with this approach to golf fitness. The first problem being; there are no specific golf muscles. It takes virtually every muscle in the body working in precise concert to complete a golf swing. The second problem is; due to the repetition necessary to master the golf swing those targeted golf muscles are often already over developed and over tight in relation to the rest of the body. Performing exercises that mimic the golf swing prior to establishing a strong foundation and good muscle balance will only strengthen the imbalance and lead to further inconsistency and greater chance of injury.

Look for a qualified strength and conditioning or fitness professional that has a solid understanding of not only exercise science and biomechanics, but also the physical demands of the golf swing. Increased muscular strength and efficiency will allow you to increase power and consistency while drastically reducing chances of pain and injury. Add a well developed integrated exercise routine into routine and you will not only be playing better, but you will feel better doing it.

Bill Scibetta, RN, NSCA-CPT

Bill is the founder and President of Precision Fitness Personal Training Centers in the Charlotte, NC area and co-author of the book play Better Longer! Peak performance and Injury Prevention for Golf. Bill is a licensed Registered Nurse as well as a national Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Personal Trainer. After spending years practicing in the specialty of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Bill has dedicated his career to helping individuals identify and overcome obstacles that stand in the way of optimal wellness and peak physical performance.

http://www.LakeNormanFitness.com

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The Power And Utility Of The 60-Gigahertz Wireless Band

Until very recently, wireless systems have largely operated within the standard 2.4 and 5.8 ghz frequency bands. With this ubiquity has come tremendous quality, speed and interference issues typically associated with overcrowding. Today, home networks, wireless cafes, office buildings and the like are suffering from pirated signals, spotty reception and challenges with signal interference. Although still relatively new in its adoption, the emergence of the 60 ghz wireless band is gaining prominence across much of the United States and canada. This license-free frequency is open for use by anyone with wireless receivers capable of transmitting the high-end frequency.

Furthermore, the 60 ghz frequency band has many unique characteristics that afford a multitude of benefits over traditional lower-end frequencies in use today. These include:

A.SECURITY: It is virtually impossible to pirate or highjack a signal because the beam itself is so extremely narrow (an average of one degree in width). In order to do so, someone would have to be directly in line with the one-degree beam and would also need to know the mac address of the receiving radio.

B.QUALITY: The 60 ghz signal range has a very high oxygen absorption rate, which keeps the signal closely contained and free from external interference. This also enables collocation of signals in close proximity to one another.

C.SPEED: This frequency offers very high data throughput levels at a fiber-performance rate up to 2.25 gps using a point-to-point link, covering almost five miles. This makes it a viable solution for businesses with large bandwidth needs such as engineering companies, design firms, advertising agencies, etc.

D.CONTROL: system management using SNMP allows an administrator to review real time statistics of the wireless radio and be quickly notified if a network problem arises.

E.RELIABILITY: The FCC allocated 7 ghz of spectrum at the 60 ghz range which is the most ever allotted and far greater in bandwidth than the 0.5 ghz of spectrum afforded between 2-6 ghz (used largely today for wifi, etc.)

F.LICENSE-FREE: Since the 60 ghz range is unlicensed, companies dont have to purchase an expensive federal license to be able to deploy wireless links.

While there arent any home-based or wifi-compliant products available in the 60 ghz band for the consumer market today, there are many equipment providers offering 60 ghz wireless equipment for the business sector. Like wifi and 802.11, the 60 ghz band is already becoming the next big thing in wireless networking.

If you are considering a 60 ghz wireless solution, be sure to select an equipment provider and system installer that has a history of providing quality products and services at an affordable price.

Steve White
Senior Engineer
WirelessGuys
http://www.wirelessguys.com

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Personalize Your Golf Balls

Every year, for a special family member, we try to find a special gift that represents our appreciation and that is something they will find useful. If that person plays golf you may have already purchased that special golf sweater, shoes or golf cap. Something that fits the bill, something they will use,something that they will show off proudly.

Personalized golf balls may just be the ticket. The golfer's name, motivational sayings, a company's logo, or other individualized messaging can be inscribed, you decide how to make them unique for your special golfer.

Golfer's Name

You can't go wrong when you give personalized golf balls to your golf fanatic! The smile that they get when they see what you have done to make this gift of golf balls personal for them is priceless.

Not only can you have initials graphically imprinted on personalized golf balls, but this can also be done in various ways. For an example you can choose the style of lettering to be used or the color that you prefer.You could even add a monogram if you like.

Sayings that Motivate

To make great progress in any endeavor,success in that endeavor starts with a positive thought.this motivation can be accomplished by repeating positive affirmations in ones mind to be successful. Positive affirmations that could possibly influence ones game could be "drive for success" or "putt with purpose."

These personalized golf balls not only make great gifts, but can be used to inspire the golfer.

company Logo

A company's logo, slogan and other pertinent information can be displayed on personalized golf balls. this information could include the company's address and phone number.

These personalized golf balls, offered by companies or corporations could be an excellent way of advertising the company's product. In addition, these personalized golf balls could be excellent gifts that could be given to customers or prospective customers. this type of marketing will bring to the individual's mind your company when they are in need of your service.

One More Idea

Another useful idea of personalized golf balls is for example special events.Having a wedding photo portrayed on a golf ball.Rather than use this golf ball out on the course it can be displayed on an individual's desk or other place of prominence.

One other special event that could be captured on a personalized golf ball could be a baby's photograph. this event could be reflected through the use of an actual photograph of a pair of baby booties.

Considering purchasing a training aid to help your game! see what golf enthusiast and writer Bob Green says in an article titled golf swing training aids and golf lessons this and other unique content golf articles are available with free reprint rights.

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Plant Spirit Shamanism - What's Up With The Weather?

Plant spirit shamans - natural healers who work with herbs, ritual, and the elements - have long known that the world is not made up of discrete and separate parts, but that we are all one: that the butterfly effect of a single extra drop of water released from a cloud into a Gloucestershire river could eventually lead to flooding in the distant streets of london.

Through Gaia Theory and a more informed understanding in recent years of how the natural world, the environment, and the climate really works, some scientists are also coming round to the shamans age-old view of the connections between all things.

How might these scientists and the shamans counter some of the current scepticism about carbon footprints and climate change, and what might they say about the freak weather conditions many of us have been experiencing lately? What are the objections of the sceptics, what are the facts, and what are scientists and modern-day shamans saying?

DOES CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) cause GLOBAL WARMING?
The sceptics say there is no proof of this. But proof is not the job of science, which deals, in fact, with the art of probabilities. Scientists, that is, make hypotheses (best guesses) which are there not to be proved, but to be disproved - if possible.

The current best guess that CO2 does create a Greenhouse Effect by trapping solar radiation in the atmosphere and causing temperatures rises on Earth has been around since 1829, when Joseph Fourier first put forward this hypothesis and no-ones proved him wrong yet.

Indeed, a recent survey of almost 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific articles could not find one which disagreed that climate change is a man-made phenomenon and that our output of CO2 plays a large part in this.

Even those with a vested interest in proving the scientists wrong like oil companies Exxon-Mobil, Shell, and BP have all issued statements recently agreeing with the evidence: that climate change is taking place, that is happening as a result of our activities, and that CO2 is a factor.

One place you can work out your own carbon footprint is direct.gov.uk/ActOnCO2. You might be surprised at just how much you contribute.

If youd then like the chance to something positive and practical to reduce it, another site to check is http://www.thefourgates.com/villagefundraisers.html#earth thefourgates.com then follow the link from The Village page to the fundraisers page and click on the Earth C.O.S.T. link: Carbon Offset to Save Trees).

WHAT ABOUT SOLAR RADIATION? DOESNT THAT CAUSE climate CHANGE?
The current counter-theory to CO2 as the cause of global warming and climate change is one which seeks to lay the blame on solar radiation. It seems at best, however, to be a no-theory. It has been known for many years, that is - and commonsense should tell us in any case! - that solar radiation plays a part in keeping the planet warm, because when the Sun shines we all get a tan!

The science, however, shows that the Sun plays a much smaller role than greenhouse gasses in the situation now facing us.

WHAT ABOUT OTHER NATURAL CAUSES LIKE ANIMALS AND WATER VAPOR?
Water vapour is a known part of the Greenhouse Effect but it reacts to changes in climate rather than causing climate change. Evaporation and precipitation is a cycle and any water in the atmosphere doesnt stay there for more than a few weeks.

Nature itself, in its widest to its narrowest forms, is also cyclical: the cycle of life and death. Animals and plants live, die, and become food for others, and the CO2 they create gets used up elsewhere as a result of this natural cycle.

Humans meanwhile, pump six gigatonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year and take little if any out. Nor do we put any fresh air back. We could do through activities like tree planting, since every tree naturally offsets 650 kg of CO2, transforming pollution, offsetting carbon, and giving us back fresh air. The problem is that few people are planting trees and, in fact, deforestation the reverse of what we should be doing is a major issue.

In 1600, for example, over 12% of ireland was covered by broadleaf forests. By 1800, the figure was down to 2%. Since then, the country has been working to restore its forests but, by 2000, only 7% of woodlands had been returned. And, in the urgency to put trees back, the bulk of planting has been non-native trees. Many of these like the iroko, from West africa - are being logged in such an unsustainable way that if the present rate of depletion continues the forests there will be gone in five years. The outcome is stalemate (at best).

It is for these reasons that The Village has introduced the Earth C.O.S.T. Programme to plant a new forest of indigenous trees at its Centre for environmental and personal healing.

As it is, the Earth absorbs about half of our current CO2 but the rest hangs around as a greenhouse gas. Cutting back on energy usage and planting more trees would help. We know this because levels of CO2 have been stable for thousands of years until the Industrial Revolution began 150 years ago and deforestation also became rife.

ISNT climate CHANGE JUST PART OF A NATURAL CYCLE?
It is true that every 100,000 years or so the Earth is subject to climate changes due to its orbit around the Sun. This is known as Milankovitch Cycle and its effects as well as its timeline are all fairly predictable.

In the 1970s, for example, scientists were already warning of a coming Ice Age as a result of this Cycle, so nothings changed there - except the timing. We should be able to predict about 50,000 years of natural warming as a result of the Milankovitch Cycle, that is; the problem, however, is that current warming is off the scale by a factor of well, a lot! if only the Milankovitch Cycle was the cause.

climate change and global warming is speeding the process up.

WE CANT PREDICT THE weather EVEN A FEW DAYS AHEAD SO HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT THE climate OF THE FUTURE HOLDS?
Firstly, weather isnt climate. Weather refers to individual instances of sun or rain in specific geographical areas; climate is the average of all these instances over a bigger area and a longer period of time. weather changes rapidly (which is why it can be so hard to predict) but climate is relatively stable.

An analogy, if youre a gambling man, is the form of a particular horse. Of course you cant predict (i.e. know) if hell win the race youve just bet the house on, but if you look back over his form, his performance on certain fields, and his fitness levels now, then average out his wins against losses, you can get an idea of his potential in this coming race enough to make an informed decision, at least, on where to place your bet.

Which brings us back to our first point, since this is also how science works: through educated best guesses. And the current best guess, after studying past form and looking at the health of the planet now, is that man-made CO2 is leading to raised temperatures and to climate change.

WHAT DO THE SHAMANS SAY?
The Sioux medicine man Black Elk spoke early last century of the sacred hoop of life, that all things are one and that everything is part of a great circle of existence. Visionaries like Black Elk, and plant spirit shamans today, know that life on our planet amounts to far more than the discrete boxes, capable of control and intervention, that we have taken it to be until now.

James Lovelock a visionary scientist rather than a shaman has also shown, in our century, through his Gaia Hypothesis, that the world is alive, aware, and intelligent; a self-regulating organism that seeks balance, like our own bodies.

The job of human beings, says Lovelock, is through our intelligence and communication [to act as] the nervous system of the planet. Through us, Gaia has seen herself from space and begins to know her place in the universe. We should be the heart and mind of the Earth, not its malady.

A humble plea that we might start taking our rightful place by simply planting a few more trees.

Ross Heaven is a therapist, workshop leader, and the author of several books on shamanism and healing, including Darkness Visible, the best-selling Plant Spirit Shamanism, The Way of The Lover, The Journey to You, and Loves Simple Truths. His website is http://www.thefourgates.com where you can also read more about The Village and how to join his sacred journeys to the plant spirit shamans and healers of the Amazon.

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