If you wish to prolong your life, you should play golf all your life. If you wish to play golf all your life, you should learn what adjustments to make in order to extend the life of your golf game. It is that simple!

How do you play golf all your life?

In golf, as with everything in life, you need to make adjustments as time goes on, if you wish to continue to do it well. This adaptability is the art of living well, and golfing well. And it’s the key to happily playing golf all your life.

As you age, you body undergoes many physical changes, and you need to make adjustments to roll with these changes in order to continue your golf success.

Many senior golfers are unrealistic: they expect to stay at their current level of play without making the appropriate adjustments. They end up in frustration and even encounter injuries that eventually shorten or even end their golf life-span. A wiser approach is to make realistic adjustments to keep the game fun, and playable, for many more years.

Like many senior golfers, you may find a decline in your muscle strength and flexibility as you continue to age. Unfortunately, flexibility is a major factor in creating an effortless golf swing, which is the key to golf success. Therefore, you need to make adjustments to your golf swing speed. You need to create a lower and slower takeaway when you swing your golf club back. The objective is to maintain your accuracy, rather than rely on strength and distance.

To compensate for the decline in your flexibility, strength and endurance, you need to increase your golf fitness through exercise away from the course, in particular stretching exercise to promote flexibility.

Pay particular attention to the muscle groups involved in the golf swing: thigh and hip muscles (during your downswing); lower back muscles (during your coil); and shoulder rotator cuff muscles (during your backswing). Flexibility not only reduces the risk of injury due to less tissue resistance, but also enhances your overall performance through relieving muscular stress and improving postural balance and awareness during your golf swing.

Another step you need to consider is weight training, to provide muscular strength to make up for the loss of muscle mass due to aging. Cardio-respiratory activities, such as jogging, walking, or even ballroom dancing, may improve your physical endurance, which is the ability of your muscles to perform without fatigue – an important factor in golf success in senior golfers.

Another adjustment you need is the use of eye exercises to improve depth perception, as well as to prevent eye fatigue.

Finally, as you continue to age, you have to adjust your lifestyle to keep you physically and mentally fit to play golf all your life. Adjustments in lifestyle include keeping a regular sleep pattern, healthy eating, and avoiding stimulants, such as alcohol or tobacco.

Live long, prosper and play golf all your life – this is the art of living well!

Stephen Lau

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Many golfers, however, seem to remain skeptical. Some might have visions of gyms full of big, intimidating guys they’d rather not train with. Some simply don’t know where to start, or whether all the effort they’d put in would be worth it. It hasn’t helped that several myths have existed for years about the alleged downsides of physical conditioning or strength training, and the impact these might have on the smooth, easy swing most golfers desire. Let’s take a look at 3 of these myths, and the reality hiding behind them as well.

1. If I lift weights, I’ll get too ‘bulky’ and ruin my swing

An exercise program specific to golf and golfers will not hinder your swing mechanics, it will enhance them! There are sport-specific programs for virtually any sport you can think of; the one thing they have in common is their purpose. That is, to strengthen and condition the muscles and muscle groups most used in that game. Makes sense, right?

A typical golf conditioning program will use moderate weight, with medium (12-15) repetitions, it will be relatively brief and it won’t include the massive caloric intake required to build mass. At least, it shouldn’t! Of course, some exercises won’t involve weights at all, they’ll just be…well, exercises. This type of program is designed to improve your strength and endurance while golfing, nothing more. You might burn some calories and end up looking better in a t-shirt, but you will not be building ‘bulky’ muscle.

2. I’d be sacrificing flexibility for strength if I lift weights

In fact, the opposite is true! Untrained muscles are also tight muscles. Through resistance training you’ll increase blood flow, work your limbs through a range of motion that imitates those you’ll use in your golf game, and strengthen your joints’ tendons and ligaments. In conjunction with a stretching program, strength training will improve flexibility, not hinder it.

3. Weight training will cause me to lose the feel in my golf game

Wrong again! By strengthening the muscles specific to playing golf, you will have better control of your body’s motions. A sport-specific program trains your body for better physical performance in your golf game, as mentioned earlier. When you improve functional strength, you have more control and balance, which will improve your feel. Strength training improves body awareness, muscular control, and coordination. These are all key elements for the smooth, flowing golf swing you’re after.

Golf conditioning programs can be incorporated into your training whether you’re in your teens or your 80’s. It is never too late to start. Search out a fitness professional or golf conditioning specialist to design a golf specific program and you will play better than you ever imagined! Start now on your golf conditioning program!

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