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By: Charles W. Boatright
BURPEE EXERCISE- Burn ab fat off using a yoga Burpee element during your workout program with a Medicine Ball. This exercise routine includes a Plyometrics component that amplifies your exercise routine with a jumping element. Another great way to incorporate Plyometrics into your normal exercise routine is the running-in-place tires course routine between your exercise elements for 20 seconds. Or, incorporate a kick boxing element during your boxing bag routine. Plyometrics is included in the CASPER workout that is in The ESPY Golf Swing Coach book in Section 20. I usually modify the Burpee exercise featured in this article with a 5- or 15-pound Medicine Ball. This increases the quad and ab muscle to strengthen your golf swing. The Medicine Ball Burpee exercise works the Low Threshold muscles responsible for providing the sudden burst of energy like is needed in your golf downswing through impact.
Also a great exercise that is apart of the CASPER Workout Program in my book is where the golfer trades in just for this exercise their golf bag and golf glove for a different type of round, bag and pair of gloves for either one or Three rounds with a punching bag using 10 oz., 12 oz, or 14 oz. boxing gloves. I have two (3-minutes) rounds I have included in my routine workout program. Working out with a punching bag also increases your ability to focus or what I like to call golfer’s meditation or ability to focus. The more you can meditate the more the golfer can focus on letting the subconscious mind execute three simple Elements of Synch, Preset, and Yaw in their golf swing. The Yaw element is important to the golfer, because it allows the golfer to coil those Low Threshold muscles in the upper and lower body they are strengthening during this Medicine Ball Burpee exercise.
Why call it this the Yaw element, because in aviation where I use to work before retiring with an utility as a grid engineer, Yaw is a term describing a horizontal rotation, the yellow sprocket in this illustration of my granddad, Hemi Q. Boatright, about a vertical axis, the spinal column in the golfer’s case. This is where the power is transferred to the forearms, elbows, smaller sprockets, and to the handle of the club in order to take advantage of the golfer’s natural Bio- sprocket mechanics. This mechanical advantage is essences of my book, The ESPY Golf Swing Coach, a self-coaching technique that will allow the amateur golfer or scratch golfer to improve their golf swing and handicap while lowering the golfer’s frustration level by enjoying their golf game with confidence! Golf is supposed to relieve STRESS not cause stress.
The letter “P” indicates the Plyometrics component of the CASPER Workout Program. The other letters represent the following components:
- C– Cardiovascular
- A– Aerobic
- S– Strength (weight training)
- P– Plyometrics (jumping)
- E– Exercise
- R– Regimen
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Another important part of your golf swing is figuring your proper swing plane. This allows the golfer to engage the Low Threshold muscles during the downswing to include the powerful Quad muscles and ab and torso muscles. The golfer on the proper swing plane is based on the ratio between their arm (upper arm) and forearm. The golfer can actually feel the lower body engaging toward the top of the golf swing. For more information on determining your correct swing plane please refer to my Blog: GOLF SWING PLANE MATTERS IN GOLF SWING MECHANICS! http://goo.gl/R73PRb
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