*HEALTH AND FITNESS*
" 4 REASONS WHY GOLFING IS MORE EXERCISE THAN YOU THINK "
By: Fitday
Golfing is often thought of as a passive sport that does not require any real degree of fitness. In reality, golf incorporates cardiovascular exercise, strength training, and even balance and coordination. With all of these benefits, it's hard to say no to a game of golf.
1. Walking
One of the best parts of golf, from a fitness standpoint, is the high amount of cardiovascular activity that is involved in the sport. Think about it—most golf courses are spread over multiple acres of hilly ground. Therefore, walking across a golf course is a great way to improve your cardiovascular system. Cardiovascular exercise is thought of as biking, swimming or jogging. However, when you walk (and not ride in a golf cart) during your golf game, you are sure to get the same kinds of cardiovascular benefits.
2. Strength Training
Another reason why golfing consists of more exercise than you think is because of the high amounts of strength training that goes on during the game. Swinging a golf club, in and of itself, is not very difficult from a strength training point of view. However, as discussed above, golf courses typically have lots of hills and valleys. Walking up these hills is sure to work the quadriceps and hamstrings, which help to make up the muscles of the lower body. In addition, lifting your golf bag from the car to the course, and carrying it around the course with you all day, is a great way to get your upper body strength training in for the week.
3. Balance
One of the best types of exercise that you can get from golfing is an increase in your ability tobalance your body. A high degree of balance is not only difficult to achieve, but is very important for a number of reasons. First, individuals who exhibit a great sense of balance often have a very strong core. Your core includes the abdominal muscles, as well as the muscles of the lower back and even the buttocks. These muscles work together to help prevent back pain, falls and a number of other dangerous occurrences. Whenever you get a chance to work on improving your balance, you should take it.
4. Concentration
Golf is a great way to exercise your body. However, as recent research has found, this is not the only type of exercise that your body needs. Exercising your brain is also very important not only for long life, but also for the prevention of brain degradation, which can result in memory loss. Golfing forces you to remember numbers, images, and even specific tips and techniques. Therefore, it is a great all-around way to exercise both body and mind.
SUMMARY:
The informative news made by the Fitday website entitled, "4 Reasons why Golfing is more Exercise than You think", clearly defends how playing golf does not only applicable as a sport but also beneficial as an exercise too. The first two pictures shows two of the best pro golfers in the world, Tiger Woods and Rory Mcilroy, which pursue everyone especially the young ones to play this sport and they can achieve more. Golfing is just more than just a sport and winning, but it is also considered as an exercise. According to Fitday, the four reasons why golfing is more exercise are walking, strength training, balance, and concentration, which clearly explains the fact that golf has a lot of benefits to our health and body build up. As seen on the video, the pros show how golf exercises can develop one's swing and shot position. This example only shows that the body is stretched and reflexed when you play golf. All in all, golfing as we see it is not only a passive sport and does not require fitness, but in reality, it is more than just a sport, it is a good exercise and fitness to maintain a healthy lifestyle and a good body shape.
REFLECTION:
The media news was created by Fitday. The technique used to attract my attention was through the use of media and the very interesting news article. Personally, I myself, also plays golf since my childhood and I never get tired of all the benefits that golfing has. From the heat of the sun, to the walking on long greens, I consider it as more than just a sport and about this media, I feel overwhelmed and relaxed considering since playing golf is one of my hobbies and sports, and knowing that most people playing this sport are old people, I feel happy for them for they also get good health condition benefits playing this sport even at a young age. Other people with other sport favourites or dislikes golf, may view this message as an uninteresting one, but I view it as a beneficial and helpful one not only to golf players but also to other sport lovers. The lifestyle omitted by the message is having a good health condition for the golfers around there. The main reason why this message is being sent to us is because mostly view golf as an old-man sport, but more than we think, this sport definitely has more benefits and more exercise that helps to achieve a healthy and fit body and good health condition.
References
Fitday. 4 Reasons Why Golfing is More Exercise Than You Think. (n.d.). Retrieved July 8, 2013, from http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/fitness/exercises/4-reasons-why-golfing-is-more-exercise-than-you-think.html#b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOqGQfe3_IY
Media Log by: SHANON CHRISTOPHER A. GAERLAN
