HIGH ENERGY AND GOOD SCORES
Perfect practice alone is not the only factor that is significant in lowering your golf scores, if you do not have the energy to hit all of the required shots, then your swing will become sloppy and the desired shots and results will not eventuate. This is especially relevant when you go out onto the course and play your rounds.
A good diet and exercise program will work wonders not only with your golf game, but also with your life in general. This part of golf aux touches on Health and fitness so you can play to your best ability all of the time.
There are certain food groups that are great for energy and food groups that drain energy. It is always recommended by doctors and intuitionalists to follow the healthy food pyramid and Golf Aux agrees.
THE HEALTHY FOOD PYRAMID
Most club golfers have terrible eating habits when it comes to being out on the golf course. Beer, soft drink, pies, sausage rolls and chocolate generally make up their day and most of the time, but not always, their game suffers because of it.
How many times have you felt low on energy and grabbed a pie, bottle of coke and a mars bar at half way only to find that for the next four holes your concentration becomes erratic and you play both a mixture of great and terrible shots. Then it hits you, you energy depletes and the last five holes are a struggle. This is not always the case but if it is, here is the reason.
BAD FOODS
All highly processed foods are bad foods and usually contain simple carbohydrates which are burnt quickly by the body and strip it of much needed nutrients and vitamins. Simple carbohydrates raise energy levels high above the ideal level??
1: - SUGAR
Sugar is the most simple of carbohydrates and is burnt by the body extremely quickly. As you can see on the graph, once ingested your energy levels will be boosted high above your ideal energy platform only to plummet well below this level.
Foods with highest sugar levels are; Soft Drinks – Chocolate – Lollies – Ice cream. You all know the ones, they’re sweet and tasty and bad for your teeth. Not only are they bad for your teeth, what your body does is use extra energy and vitamins to break the explosion of simple carbohydrates down and your body is stripped of essential nutrients.
2: - BREAD AND PASTRIES
Any food that contains White Flour can be classed as in the same food group as Sugar. It is a simple carbohydrate that is burnt quickly by the body and zaps it of valuable nutrients. If Bread or pastries are eaten, it is advisable to go for whole meal flour based breads and pastries as the whole meal flour has not been processed as much and contains more nutrients than white flour. Whole meal flour takes longer to digest and is burnt at a slower rate than white flour so the energy you receive from the whole meal products lasts longer and does not destroy concentration levels.
3: - CAFFEINE
Coffee, Cola and other caffeine containing substances may be good to stimulate your senses but ultimately dehydrate your body and you will loose concentration and feel drained of energy. If sugar is mixed with caffeine then the rate of dehydration and exhaustion will greatly increase.
4: - ALCOHOL
