Burning Calories

[Sandpiper3]

Trust me! this has to do with golf!

Well, ive been searchin around for golf specific workouts and have had already wat sorta ideas id be looking at, came across one on bally total fitness.com... Good excercises, so ill probly use some of that with some of the other things im already doing.

An interesting thing they have on the site is a "calorie burn calculator" with ideal activities. Has three different golf categories - carrying, pulling and carting

Apparently at my weight, carrying my bag for 280 mins (just over 4 1/2 hours which is the avg round up here usually...) I burn 2695 calories! Hmm... interesting.

[Sandpiper3]

Forgot the link;

http://www.ballyfitness.com/ebns/cal...r/index_js.asp

[Pa Jayhawk]

Interesting that you will burn 2/3 of those calories using a power cart as opposed to carrying your bags. Sorry, had to mention it, couldn't pass it up.

edit 1 - Just think, I could likely play 3 rounds in a cart during the day, where I am usually reasonbly tired after 1 where I carry my bag. Wonder which is the smarter choice

[Crossfire]

I tottally believe it, I lost more weight and got in better cardiovascular health this summer by walking 18-36 holes a day then all my summer 2 a days and conditioning...

[ol-crank]

think that would be walking for 280 minutes carrying a golf bag.(not stopping and starting for 280 minutes) Even the longer courses in B.C. don't make you walk that far. I bet it is about an hour or less to walk the 6000 or so yards. As a cyclist, I think that I am lucky to burn 600 calories an hour, racing on MTB trails.

[Poe4soul]

IMO the workout they have online for golf is poor. Weights are not dynamic and do little for coordination or flexibility. They isolate muscles into major groups and do little to balance the body for fluid activities like golf. While lifting with weights will increase your strength and help w/ overall physical fitness it certainly is not the best exercise out there for golf. I would recommend exercises that use lower weights on unstable surfaces like a gym ball, slant boards, etc. This will help with balance by working out your propreoceptors and the brains response which is dynamic and not sitting on a bench pushing weights up into the air.

The question to me comes down to "Do you want to look fit or be fit?" Weight lifting makes great looking bodies but does little to help the body perform.

[Sandpiper3]

Ive walked my course and it took about just over an hour and a half to walk. (7000 yard course). Just staright walking it, not meandering about trying to find balls or walking around greens etc. Being out there walking about and that its not stop go really. I feel it is a little much, but its fairly accurate, obv playing a round has a few more variables in it then doing a MTB trail.

[Sandpiper3]

Originally Posted by Poe4soul

IMO the workout they have online for golf is poor. Weights are not dynamic and do little for coordination or flexibility. They isolate muscles into major groups and do little to balance the body for fluid activities like golf. While lifting with weights will increase your strength and help w/ overall physical fitness it certainly is not the best exercise out there for golf. I would recommend exercises that use lower weights on unstable surfaces like a gym ball, slant boards, etc. This will help with balance by working out your propreoceptors and the brains response which is dynamic and not sitting on a bench pushing weights up into the air.

The question to me comes down to "Do you want to look fit or be fit?" Weight lifting makes great looking bodies but does little to help the body perform.

My coach actually used that golf workout to base off of. I do some of it on stability balls to work on like you said the coordination and flexibility. I dont use very heavy weights, im lifting for endurance, not bulk.

(Also lifting to work off xmas)

[ol-crank]

whatever you are doing. I just wanted to point out that it takes a lot of hard work to burn off calories. That chart doesn't agree with what I've learned over the past 30 years. Here's another one.
http://www.coolnurse.com/calories_burned.htm

[VtDivot]

I am currently training for a half marathon and I run 6 miles in under 1 hour and only burn ~700 calories. There is no way you could burn 2700 walking a course even with 30 lbs on your back

[solarbear88]

Was dieting, lifting wieghts, trying to lose some weight. Weight loss was pretty slow, less than 1lb per week. Started hitting balls for an hour a night as well and weight started falling off at about 3lb a week. It must have been burning alot more energy than I would have suspected.

[mont86]

Originally Posted by Sandpiper3

Apparently at my weight, carrying my bag for 280 mins (just over 4 1/2 hours which is the avg round up here usually...) I burn 2695 calories! Hmm... interesting.

that is alot of cal. ?????

[JEFF4i]

Originally Posted by ol-crank

think that would be walking for 280 minutes carrying a golf bag.(not stopping and starting for 280 minutes) Even the longer courses in B.C. don't make you walk that far. I bet it is about an hour or less to walk the 6000 or so yards. As a cyclist, I think that I am lucky to burn 600 calories an hour, racing on MTB trails.

I wouldn't be so sure. I've seen it in a couple fitness magazines and a golf one, the golfer averages 2000-2200 calories burned in one round walking. It's not 100% true, but the more sources I seem to find it, the more it validates it.

[VtDivot]

Originally Posted by JEFF4i

I wouldn't be so sure. I've seen it in a couple fitness magazines and a golf one, the golfer averages 2000-2200 calories burned in one round walking. It's not 100% true, but the more sources I seem to find it, the more it validates it.

impossible

[Sandpiper3]

impossible

........Prove it