Archive for October, 2008

Places to Buy Golf Carts

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

One of the most frequent queries about buying golf carts is how to get them on the cheap. If you are in this category – you are in luck as there are many places to buy golf carts at a low price. Some of the best places places to purchase them are listed below:

1. Internet Auctions – Auction sites such as eBay are good places to purchase golf carts at the lowest prices . You should be able to find new and used golf carts here but be aware of the condition of the vehicle.

2. Classified Ads – Classified ads sites are a good way to find what you are looking for in your local area. One of the most popular classified ads sites is Craigslist. Used golf carts are usually sold there but, again, be wary of the condition of them as they may be faulty.

3. Dealerships – For brand new golf carts many people go to dealerships. The downside of buying from these places are the price – they are often more expensive.

4. BuyerZone – BuyerZone is an easy way to buy golf carts online. All you have to do is answer a few questions and it will find the best golf cart for your needs in your local area.

If you are thinking of buying a used golf cart, be sure to read Buying Golf Carts for advice and tips on purchasing at the lowest price.

5 Simple Steps to a “Perfectly Fitted Putter”

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Ever wonder why putting is so difficult for you? Want to know how to fix it? I’ll bet you’re using improperly fitted equipment without realizing it? If so, consider yourself lucky. We’ve come to save your putting game. These 5 key points will get you that perfectly fitted putter so you can shave off all those unwanted strokes on the greens. Let’s learn how.

The First Key:

A quality fitting can’t be done without you knowing your proper measurements. To calculate your best putter length you must base it on your height. You will do what’s known as a wrist-to-floor measurement. Measure form the inside of your wrist at the top of your hand all the way down to the floor. Keep this measurement ready for future reference.

The Second Key:

Figure out what your posture is when you’re putting. Do you stand more upright like a Vijay Singh? If so you will be better suited to longer putters that have more upright angles. Or do you have more of a crouched posture like the great Jack Nicklaus? If you fall into this category you will need a shorter putter that has flatter angles with it.

The Third Key:

Look at your hand position when you address the ball for a putt. There are a number of factors that will affect the proper loft at impact you need. These include offset putters, ball position, and hand position. Are you a player with pronounced forward press? This will create negative loft at the point of impact; therefore you will need additional loft to counteract this preference. If you have a conventional hand position then you will benefit from a standard lofted putter.

The Fourth Key:

What’s your putting stroke like? You must consider this because depending on your wrist action, it will dictate what type of grips you need. Players with more of a pendulum action will choose wider or fatter grips to inhibit any unwanted wrist action. A golfer who has more wrist action in their stroke will prefer the smaller, thinner, more traditional sized grips. As these are believed to promote a smoother release of the ball.

The Fifth Key:

Look at your stroke path. Do you have an inside-square-inside (small arc) path to your stroke? If so you probably have a tendency to pull your putts and will benefit from what’s known as heel shafted model putter. If you’re more of straight-back-straight-through stroke you will have more of a tendency to push your putts. You would then benefit more from a face balanced putter with the weight dispersed evenly in the putter head.

With that being said, go get yourself a properly fitted putter. Every golfer knows good putting is essential and you’re leaving yourself at a huge disadvantage by not using the proper equipment!

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5 Myths About Sports Conditioning That Are Holding You Back:

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

In life we are surrounded by numerous myths and half-truths, the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, UFOs in Roswell, and Crop Circles just to name a few. No one quite knows if any of these things really exists or if they are just stories told by people for purposes only they know. Sports conditioning has much in common with these mythological occurrences.

Over the past several months, I have answered a gamut of questions from numerous Revolution players with topics ranging from pre-competition nutrition to exercise performance questions. All have been valid and good questions. However, I have also had to dispel more than a few myths about strength training and sports conditioning as well. All of which has led to the development of this article in an effort to dismiss as many of the common myths as possible with one fell-stroke of the keyboard. So, without further ado, here are the top five myths related to strength training and sports conditioning:

1.Myth: Strength Training Will Make Me Bulky
At the heart of this common misconception is the way men and women who perform strength training are depicted in many well known “fitness” magazines. You must understand that the individuals in those magazines are not only genetically pre-disposed to gain outrageous amounts of muscle, they also are using very large doses of anabolic and androgenic drugs.
Not getting “bulky” is a concern that I have often heard from both ordinary trainees and athletes. First, “bulky” needs to be defined. I assume that the reference to not wanting to be “bulky” is the desire not to look like the people in the “fitness” magazines. Fortunately, for those of you concerned with the “bulky factor”, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. It is entirely possible to be strong, very strong, without gaining significant amounts of lean body mass (muscle). As matter of fact, that is exactly how the majority of elite athletes train. Adding extra lean mass is not necessarily conducive to improved performance. However, being stronger and more powerful definitely are.
If you still think that you can’t be strong without being bulky, below is a picture of former USA Olympic Weightlifting Champion Tara Cunningham:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletebios/5004740/detail.html

Stats:
Ht: 5′1″
Wt: 106 lbs
Performance
Snatch: 177.5 lbs
Clean and Jerk: 209 lbs
She looks pretty athletic, definitely strong, and very “non-bulky”.

Truth: Strength Training Will Not Make You “Bulky”!

2.Myth: Trash Doesn’t Stink
Often when working with athletes, I find it necessary to “dial” them back on their training a little bit as it seems they judge the effectiveness of a training session on whether or not they walk away absolutely “wasted”. This is a faulty method of quantifying a productive session. Usually by the time you reach the “heavy breathing, sweat drenched” end of a program, you have long since surpassed the productive portion of your training. This type of training is what I call “Trash Training”. You are basically “trashing” your body, your ability to recover, and, most importantly, your PROGRESS.
The best way to avoid “trash training” is to keep an accurate training log. That way you can refer back to previous performance, get into your session, and make progress toward becoming a better footy player. Progress can be measured as lifting 2.5 more pounds on a barbell squat, running .1 second faster in a 50 meter run, or performing one more pull-up. None of this quantifiable information will be available to you, however, if you do not keep a training log. Continuous progress is the only way strength and conditioning training is going to positively impact your performance. Otherwise, you are just wasting energy that could be spent elsewhere.
If you think of training in the following terms, it might help you to understand the point I am making. When you go into work every day, you don’t contemplate how to make the work you are going to do that day as difficult as humanly possible, do you? Of course not. You think of ways to make your work more efficient and productive. Well, the same goes for your strength and conditioning work.
Truth: Trash Does Stink!

3.Myth: More Is Always Better
One of the primary concerns I hear from footy players is they don’t have the ability to perform longer bouts of running, in the range of 2-4 miles. Although I do understand how this common misconception can be fostered by watching AFL level players routinely log 16-24 miles per game, what must be understood, and thus prioritized, is that sports training should as closely mimic the sporting activity as is possible. Even if you are in top condition, the pace at which 2-4 miles is run is nowhere near the pace at which a game of footy is played. In footy, the majority of activity is composed of relatively short, intense bouts of work followed by some sort of recovery movement. Hence, it makes sense for a footy player’s conditioning to mimic that process. Performing interval running, fartlek drills, and running multiple 50-400 meter sprints would all be very applicable components of a footy conditioning program. If the goal is for your training to have a profound effect on your game performance, then run fast for short to moderate distances. You will develop more than adequate conditioning for footy.
Truth: More Is Not Always Better!

4.Myth: “Insanity Training” Gets Results
A commonly accepted definition of insanity is: to repeat the same activity over and over while expecting a different result each time. Many athletes take this same approach with their sports conditioning as well. Once upon a time, they found a program that worked awesomely for them. They have used it for years and are very comfortable with it because they’re good at it. I call this “Insanity Training”.
There are two very specific problems with “insanity training”:
1.There is NO perfect program. Just because it worked well for you at one point in time, does not mean that it will continue to work well for you if you perform it consistently for a long period of time. Here’s a thought. If a perfect program had been discovered, don’t you think that everyone would be using it?
2.People do not like to change. They like to stick with what they know. The same goes for exercise programs. We tend to stick to protocols and exercises that we enjoy and are good at doing. When in reality, we should be doing exercises that address our “weak” areas.
Three quick ways to keep your training out of the “Nut House”:
1.Change your program every 4 weeks regardless of how successfully things are going. It’s only a matter of time until the benefits of the program start to fade.
2.When you change your program, select exercises that you dislike and add them to your new program. Chances are these are the areas that you need to work the most. Also, just so you don’t end up hating the entire program, superset a “hated” movement with a movement that you love. For example, combine Romanian Deadlifts and Bicep Curls.
3.Lastly, get a coach, or at the very least an objective observer, to analyze your program, and even better, write a program for you. There are two benefits to this. The coach/observer won’t have the same exercise biases that you do, and you are more likely to comply with a program that someone else has written due to the actual or perceived obligation to not disappoint that person.
These are just a couple of quick ways to insure that your training doesn’t end up like a fat person on a stationary bike: going nowhere!
Truth: “Insanity Training” Does Not Get Results!

5.Myth: It’s A Beauty Contest
I know many of you have heard the saying “all show and no go”. I am also sure that each and every one of you has observed this type of player. You know, the body of Adonis coupled with the performance of a 1981 Yugo. There are many factors that contribute to this phenomenon, but one of the main ones is the prevalence of athletes using bodybuilding training programs. Don’t get me wrong here. In some instances, muscle hypertrophy (growth) is very beneficial, but there is a distinct difference between effective sports conditioning programs and bodybuilding programs. The main difference is that strength and conditioning routines for sports are primarily focused on improving the athlete’s performance in his/her chosen sport. Bodybuilding programs are designed to do just that – build the body, primarily the muscles.
Now, let’s shift the focus to footy. Some things required by a footy player are hip and leg strength and power and strength in the trunk and upper body. Strength in the hips and legs allows the player to kick the ball and move about the ground at an effective pace. Strength in the trunk and upper body gives the player stability when confronted with an awkward body position and allows the player to perform tackles and shepherds with brutal efficiency. Did you notice any mention of beautiful, bulging biceps and triceps or pumped up pecs? Nope. Nada. None. Not a single mention. Do you know why? Two reasons really:
1. Those areas get effective training from performing exercises such as squats, deadlifts, pull-ups, over-head presses, etc. As a matter of fact, the above exercises provide more than enough of a training effect to keep those muscle groups plenty strong for the demands placed on them during the sport.
2. Performing specific exercises for those body parts falls lower on the priority list than those exercises that are going to more readily assist you in becoming a better footy player.
And that’s what it’s all about really — becoming a better footy player, right? Which brings us to what may be the biggest sports conditioning myth of all: Bruno Got Kick-Ass Results, So Will You. You know the story. A friend of a friend’s brother’s sister’s boyfriend Bruno did this particular program and got kick-ass results, so, of course, it will work the same magic for you. The problems with these types of stories/myths are that they may or may not be true, people may be telling them simply to sell a particular program, and you don’t personally know Bruno. For all you know, Bruno’s kick-ass results may be due to the fact that he was a stereotypical 90 lb weakling before starting the program or maybe he was training to be Mr. Olympia. What is probably true is that Bruno is not a footy player, and despite results of mythological proportions, his program is totally inappropriate for footy conditioning. Truth: Bruno Got Kick-Ass Results, You Are Not Bruno.
The first thing you must ask yourself before you start a sports conditioning program is whether or not this program will make you better at your sport, and if so, how. If the answer is YES, then by all means proceed. If, however, the answer is NO, then you should seriously assess why you would want to undertake such a program. The next question to ask is whether the program is going to help you strengthen or eliminate weaknesses in your footy game or simply further develop areas in which you are already very proficient. Finally, you have to determine if you have the resources available to accomplish your goals. Resources can be anything from training equipment to time to physical stature. They all play a role in how productive and successful a player you will become. If you are going to perform a strength and conditioning program to assist you in becoming a better footy player, why not perform it using the most effective protocols and techniques available for your sport?
Hopefully, this article has helped dispel some of the more commonly held myths about strength and conditioning for sports and that you will soon be well on your way to your own kick-ass results as a footy player.
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Troy M. Anderson is the owner of Integrated Evolution, LLC, of Tempe, AZ. For more great tips about strength training conditioning, and other fitness information, be sure to head on over to Coach Anderson’s website www.integratedevolution.org and check out all the information available. Also, to subscribe to my newsletter The Blue Collar Fitness Report at www.integratedevolution.org

5 Essential Walking Tips

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Walking exercise is one of the easiest ways to get in shape and burn fat. In fact, mile for mile, you can burn as many calories walking as you would jogging. It’s also one of the best stress relieving exercises that anyone can do, regardless of fitness level.

Want to start a walking exercise program? Here are 5 tips to help you get the most walking bang for your buck:

1) Get your arms pumping.

Bring your upper body into your workout by pumping your arms. This is an easy way to burn more calories while walking. If you want to tone up and use more arm muscle during your workout, try carrying 2 – 5 pound handweights.

Bonus Benefit: pumping your arms propels you forward and helps you move faster – which means more distance covered and more calories burned!

2) Build in incline intervals.

Walking on an incline is one of the fastest ways to drastically skyrocket your calorie burn. But you don’t have to spend your whole workout on an incline. Try building in 30 – 60 second intervals of incline walking on your treadmill every 5 to 10 minutes.

If you’re walking outside and can’t control your incline, try stopping every few minutes and doing 10 – 15 squats or lunges to tone your lower body.

Bonus Benefit: Building in intervals will also help your body continue to burn calories post-workout.

3) Increase your pace, not your stride

Got short legs? No problem! Instead of increasing your stride (and possibly pulling something), increase the number of steps you take. This also increases your speed which means more distance covered and more calories burned.

4) Invest in a pair of excellent walking shoes

Walking in poor shoes can cause damage to your feet, knees, hips, joints and back. Wear poor shoes and you may not be walking for a long time!

If you want to feel great after a walking workout (and be ready for the next one tomorrow), make sure you have the best possible walking shoes you can afford.

Bonus Benefit: A solid pair of walking shoes can actually help you lengthen the time that you walk, which again means more calories burned.

5) Take plenty of time to warm up and stretch to avoid injury.

Walking is one of the best exercises you can do for stress relief and long term fat loss. However there’s this little thing called shinsplints that can threaten to put you out of walking commission for a while.

Many walkers and runners struggle with this problem. This constant repetitive flexing of the shin muscle can create soreness when a walker increases their speed or distance.

To help ward off shin splints or other muscle injury, take plenty of time to warm up before you really get into your workout.

Also, make sure you stretch. Pointing and flexing your foot helps stretch and build the shin muscle. Ankle rotations also help with this. Stretching properly will definitely keep you happy and walking for a long time to come!

So there you have it – 5 essential walking exercise tips. Keep these in mind and you’re guaranteed to enjoy many stress-relieving, fat burning walks!

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Kathryn O’Neill is a nutrition specialist and contributing writer for Buying A Treadmill

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On-Line Sports Results Laying for Novices

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Join both of man’s first interests and you’re bound to uncover something that’s titled a sportsbook gambling Web property. Can you think of anything that could be more imaginative… If you fancy a cluster of sports enthusiasts clapping for any favored team, and almost always bets are assured to be reckoned right along with the ruckus. So keen to get their share of the action, bystanders will frequently aspire to figure who will make it in the upcoming tournament. Put together, all of this will develop into a charming little tournament titled sportsbook gambling Web property.

Alright, it might appear compulsive though sportsbook wagers is actually solely an amusement and of teaming up with one’s friends. Here, you’ll be able to wager a a little quantity of cash and nonetheless enjoy yourself. Looking further, here are sundry leads to help everyone get started sportsbook wagers. If you want to bet, you’ll want to check out a sportsbook gambling Web property, i.e. a place that admits sportsbook gambling Web property. In the US, there’s a total of no less than four states to do sportsbook wagers legitimately, but informally you can attempt it practically anywhere providing you hunt out a bookie and you are legally an adult. The track-and-field events you’ll have a choice of risking some money on are pro alongside college football + basketball, professional hockey and baseball, alongside betting on both dog and horse racing. Clients can choose to risk money on the entire results of a contest, at which point any given contestant will be vanquished, and even whether a given coin toss in a contest will come out heads or tails.

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The sportsbook provider will bank on pure statistics to help you out arrive at a conclusion which team you think will make it. First we have the likelihood, or points advantage given to a the losing contestor presumed to go under by a defined number points. Evidently, this describes the betting outfit’s proven procedure of making unprejudiced wagers possible for a sportsbook. To take a practical example you could choose to risk some money on a club presumed to go under and and nonetheless make money on that wager providing the contestor is actually defeated by a defined number of points. People can go for miscellaneous brands of antes– straight, parlays i.e. combined antes on multiple sports competitions, teaser antes and more, the straight bets being the dominating one in sportsbook wagers.

So why don’t you just try it out and relax at one fell swoop… But determine that you won’t get overpowered and expend your complete retirement pension capriciously. Otherwise you’re likely to be caught feeling sorry about it for life.

VoIP Explained

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Debating whether to get into making phone calls over the internet? Do you have trouble understanding all the related terms? Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology is being tipped as the technology that will transform the way that calls are made in the future. Voice over IP digitises the sound of a human voice so that it can be routed through the Internet. You can now make VoIP calls that cost a tiny proportion of calls made through the traditional phone line. It is revolutionizing the way that people keep in contact.

However, as frequently arises with new technologies, it is usually hard to understand what all the new terms and jargon involved mean. Consequently this article will try and explain the technical jargon that you will encounter. So let’s get started on deciphering some of the jargon

? Bit rate: This is the speed at which data moves across the Internet. The term can also be used as a measure of the speed of an Internet connection which is often quantified in kilobits or megabits per second.

? Cable modem: This is a piece of equipment that is necessary in order to connect a PC or network to the Internet via a cable company’s service

? Ethernet: This is the standard that is used for most office networks as well as the networking system that is often found in PCs and routers

? Router: This is networking hardware device that “steers” data across a network or across the Internet. A router is needed to share an Internet connection between multiple devices

? Switch: A piece of equipment that a phone company can use to connect calls between subscribers It is also used by businesses to connect their internal extensions as well as outside lines which are also known as private branch exchange (PBX)

Our aim is by explaining and simplifying some of the jargon that surrounds the VoIP services this article should help you understand what VoIP is about and the elements that are involved. Find the service that is right for you. Join the VoIP revolution and start enjoying cheap calls and other cool services!

17 MILITARES ESPAOLES HAN MUERTO TRAS ESTRELLARSE, El Madri

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

El Real Madrid ha colaborado con el Ministerio de Defensa tras el trgico accidente ocurrido este martes en Afganistn, que se ha saldado con el trgico fallecimiento de 17 militares espaoles, permitiendo al ministro de Defensa, José Bono, aterrizar sobre el césped del estadio Santiago Bernabéu para agilizar las gestiones.

“El Real Madrid accedi encantado y mostr toda su colaboracin en unos momentos tan difciles. El propio presidente del Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, recibi sobre el césped del estadio a José Bono, Ministro de Defensa, que lleg a bordo de un helicptero de la Guardia Civil que aterriz en el Bernabéu a las 13:30 horas”, informa el ‘web’ madridista

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Los Angeles Clippers Success: Boats Tend to Sink

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

The Lakers started off 3-1, so they must be a playoff team. As of today they’re 4-6, and their postseason chances are dubious to say the least. Keep that in mind when thinking about the seemingly playoff-bound LA Clippers. Now, you’re going to see a lot of people on TV try to rectify their “mistake” of miscalculating the Clippers by saying they are indeed as good as their record portrays. Do not listen to them, time will change and soon so will their opinions.

First, the combined 10 records of the 10 teams they’ve played against are 41-54. When San Antonio and Dallas come a knocking, we’ll see how the Clippers fare. 2 games vs. the Hawks, a match-up with the Lakers; tougher opponents than that are coming.

A team blowing their record completely isn’t unheard of in the NBA. In fact, it’s happened as recently as the 01-02 season with the Milwaukee Bucks. Through 39 games, the Bucks were 26-13, game back of the New Jersey Nets. The Detroit Pistons were an unimpressive 19-20 at that point. Then, the Bucks blew it. They finished 15-28, somehow allowing both Indiana and Toronto to both squeeze in the playoffs while missing it altogether themselves. Detroit finished a Nuggets-like 31-12, just 2 games behind New Jersey when it was all over. The Bucks finished 6-16 to cap of the 01-02 year.

The moral of that story was that things change in the NBA, and nobody is accurate predicting things that haven’t happened. The 21st century has already served LA Clipper chokes to us. In that familiar 01-02 season the Clipps were 36-33, right in the middle of the playoff race. They finished 3-10. How about last year- when they were 23-23 only to lose their next 8 games.

There’s a reason they’ve only made the playoffs 3 times in their 26+ years of existence: They are the Clippers! This team has a legacy of losing and choking. For all I know this team could make the playoffs, but rest assured only as high as the 8th seed. The day the Clippers deserve and get the benefit of the doubt is the day the Natalie Holloway story isn’t on Live and Direct with Rita Cosby. It ain’t happening.

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