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5 Simple Steps to a “Perfectly Fitted Putter”
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Golf improvement techniques abound. This article will cover some golf improvement techniques that may help your game. Golf improvement techniques #1: Learn how to play the game whether you are relaxed or not. You do not need to be relaxed to play...
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We have all heard the word tempo in relation to the golf swing.
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Tempo...
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Pilates - Uncovered After 80 Years of Dormancy, Pilates is Far From Dead.
In a way, he's a lot like Edgar Allen Poe.
The famous writer had been deceased for many years before he
miraculously cracked super-stardom, his once-buried work
revamped from the ashes to be relished by millions and millions
of literature fans.
Well, Joseph Pilates is not Edgar Allen Poe. The German
immigrant is hardly a household name in 1999, but just like Poe,
some thirty-two years after his death, his lost treasures are
now being discovered as genius works of art.
You've seen the countless infomercials in the middle of the
night, boasting this piece of exercise equipment and that toning
apparatus. They usually get a famous retired athlete like Joe
Montana to endorse it and swear by it. You'll actually watch for
a minute and a half before realizing that you just wasted 90
seconds of your life.
But the word is out that the Pilates Method is different. This
one actually works.
That's why, if you look around, Pilates studios are cropping
everywhere throughout the United States. Many health clubs are
offering Pilates classes on a regular basis and more and more
Pilates machines are filling household closets where those dusty
sets of golf clubs used to rest.
Upon arriving in New York City from Germany, Mr. Pilates
primarily created his method of fitness to benefit the dance
community, as it was a success along Broadway in the 1920's. The
exercises provided dancers with that much-needed agility and
grace.
Now, in New York City alone, there are about 40 different
studios where the Pilates Method is taught with more cropping up
every day.
But the Pilates Method has not been restricted to just exercise
outlets. All kinds of hospitals, clinics, and health centers are
pulling in these machines to treat patients with spinal
injuries, back ailments, and shoulder cuff problems, just to
name a few.
The Pilates Method is essentially an exercise that combines
toning and stretching, utilizing a series of rhythmic movements
to achieve balance
and grace. It does not have the effects of
heavy free weights or Nautilus machines. The exercises you
perform are very smooth and controlled and require specific
movements from isolated muscle groups.
The common Pilates apparatus, called the Universal Reformer,
looks almost like a magic carpet. Depending on the exercise,
your body weight will rest on the padded platform, which moves
along the base of the machine through a series of pulleys. The
motions are performed with cables and a series of different
handles, depending on what motion you're performing.
These exercises are not performed in sets, really. It is a long,
continual motion that will target balance and flexibility, every
bit as much as it targets strength and conditioning. You can do
an exercise for nearly a half-hour, if you'd like.
What's interesting about Pilates is that there are no weights
involved. No adjusting the resistance, no sliding that pin down
a couple of plates. The resistance is you! When your pulling the
cables in toward your chest, the weight that your pulling is
simply your own body weight. And the magic carpet takes away the
use of gravity during the exercise; only your specific muscles
being worked is what creates any sort of movement and stability.
Aside from toning up the torso, the Pilates Method also helps
you achieve healthy breathing and relaxation while vastly
increasing stamina.
With the benefits seemingly unlimited, perhaps the Pilates
Method is a wise choice for an alternate route if you're
becoming worn out from those pounding aerobics classes or
squeaky Nautilus machines. Or perhaps you're always one to jump
on the latest fitness craze, and for thousands of Americans and
patrons worldwide, Pilates is certainly that.
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