Fitness Tips for Golf Seniors

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(Free-Press-Release.com) October 4, 2011 -- There is no getting away from the fact that your body changes with age - accept that fact and you will be better placed to make the changess a golf senior needs, not to grow old gracefully, but to grow old with a good handicap! Your joints stiffen up due to a lack of lubrication by the synovial fluid within them and inflammatory conditions are permitted to develop. That's why many golf seniors get bad backs and find standing up and sitting down such a chore.（Taylormade R9 460 type E）

Here are some fitness tips for golf seniors that if followed will enable you to more easily maintain a good accurate length and get you around 18 holes without falling over! That last part intended to be taken jovially, but for some it is all too accurate.

Eat a Snack Beforehand

Always eat a sandwich, or even better, a banana, before your round to give you the blood sugar you need for the extra energy golf seniors like you will have to generate.（Taylormade R9 460 type E）

Warming Up

Golf seniors should make a point of warming up before every round. A good 20 minutes or so stretching will keep you supple and trouble-free during your golf round. Golf-related injuries are also very common in older golf players and many golf seniors warm up with stretching exercises before teeing off simply to avoid injury during their round.

A simple exercise for golf seniors is to stand erect with a club held in your arms behind your neck. Lean to the left side as far as you can go and hold it for 3 seconds. Now do the same in the other direction, and repeat this about 5 times or whatever seems comfortable. You could also sit erect, hold an apple or orange in both hands (and even better - a medicine ball) and twist first to one side, hold it a couple of seconds, and then to the other side and repeat 4-5 times.（Taylormade R9 460 type E）

You could try these once or twice just before your round as a warm-up exercise.

Walk the Course

Give up the buggy - keep the trolley, but walk the course, and if you haven't resorted to a buggy yet then keep away from it until you can walk no more. Walking the course rather than riding it will keep you fit and give you the stamina to hit as long a drive on the 18th as on the first. The great golf players always walk the course when they play.

Taylormade R9 460 type E