The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Golf: Amazon.ca: Robert G. Price, Maryanne Haselow-Dulin: Books

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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Golf is the most comprehensive and up-to-date golf-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round golf-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other golf book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book enables golfers of all skill levels to add extra yardage to their drives and irons without having to buy the latest technology in golf! By following this program you can develop the flexibility and strength required to eliminate fatigue and increase distance with every club in your bag. With stronger and more flexible muscles, you will not only hit the ball farther but you will have better control over all of your shots throughout the round. Most importantly, you will reduce your chances of injury and be able to play 18 holes without any problems! Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too! --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder. He has helped thousands of athletes all over the world achieve their goals. Rob is also a contributing author to OnFitness magazine and is the founder of the No.1 Sports-Training website on the Internet. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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1.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Golf, Feb 11 2004

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Fist of all from the front cover to the back cover of this 64 page book on weight lifting and golf, the word GOLF/GOLFER is only mentioned 27 times plus or minus one or two times and "continuing to swing your racquet during the off-season" once (all in the introduction chapter). Also in the introduction, the book mentions "performing exercises that can be detrimental to your game", but never tells you what they are or expounds on that important bit of information at all. The book gives you what it thinks are the important body parts to be trained for a more balanced and powerful swing (Hips, Mid-section, Shoulders, Hand/Wrists/Forearms and Hamstrings). The book does a fair job at explaining Off-Season, Pre-Season and In-Season training and the exercises to be preformed. However, here is the kicker, nowhere in any of the exercise programs is there a mention of a chest exercise, but in Part III of the book, (Recommended Exercises) it devotes four pages to chest exercises. Now, I know that lifting and increasing the size and muscularity of your chest is detrimental to your golf swing. Johnny Miller proved that, he was lifting long before Tiger and Dave Duval made it a popular thing to do. However, what Johnny fail to calculate during his chest training is the changes it would cause in his swing, although he got stronger, the muscularity in his chest changed his almost flawless swing and all but ran him off the PGA tour (I know, he had putting problems too). This book quadruple bogeys here by not including this very important information and by including chest exercises in the recommended section of the book, which tends to be contradictory if not just confusing.
Conclusion: This book is a weak attempt at cutting and pasting the exercises from any general weightlifting manual that gives information on full body workouts. By adding the word GOLF 27 times and Off-Season, Pre-Season, and In-Season training to the manuscript does not make it a weightlifting guide for golfers. What a sham!!!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Just a basic workout book, Jun 12 2004

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As a personal trainer, I am interested in finding a niche and thought that golfers might be a good idea and was disappointed to see this book (a pamplet really) seemed to be just basic strength training. The workouts do not have any chest exercises but in a later section there is a full chest workout (bench press etc.) in the visual examples. Very confusing. It does not explain why the pectoral muscles might hinder the golf swing or why it is not included in the workouts. It stressed rotator cuffs, and shoulder but only had 2 rotator exercises...
So, I am back to the driving range! Don't waste you dollars on this!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Golf Fitness and Conditioning Guide..., Feb 9 2004

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After using the Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Golf, my hanicap went from 18 to 7....I am longer, straighter, and better.....I consistently drive the ball 275 yds and am hitting each iron 10 yds longer....I owe it all the the Ultimate Guide....Thanks to Robert Price I am now one of the top golfers at my club....You can't go wrong with the Ultimate Guide people, see for yourself..

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5.0 out of 5 stars Improved my golf game!
This book has been excellent for my game. Now that I am following Mr. Price's workout, my level of play has really improved. I highly recommend it to any golfer!

Published on Jan 26 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars boy did this book help me...
First let me start out by saying that my handicap dropped at least 5 shots as a result of this book. Lisez davantage

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