Better Golf, Renegade Style
Feb 16, 2009 Contributors, Training Tips
By John Davies, Founder Renegade Training
When I wrote my first book on Golf, “R-Factor for Golf“, a number of years ago, much of my typical audience was surprised with my choice of topic. In writing the book, it was my intention to address the needs of the sport as well as dispel the myths associated with an endless array of training gadgets and questionable ideas.
Like many well intended volleys, it came on the heels of the constant barrage of hype that surrounds the game. Even as some in the exercise industry have made a “meal” out of golf preparation by slapping the prefix “golf” onto a myriad of exercise classes and resistance approaches in an effort to dupe the public, the current economic downturn has done an efficient job of weeding many of those snake-oil salesmen out of the exercise game. However, getting factual information out to the golf-playing public is still no easy matter.
The essential peculiarity of golf, or “training for golf,” is that regardless of how you train off the course, if you do not carefully monitor your swing, your efforts will be largely wasted. To suggest to the untrained reader anything to the contrary is to display a practical lack of playing knowledge of the game and of the latest technological advancements. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t exercise. It simply means that you should exercise correctly. Read the rest of this entry »
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Upper Deck Power, Part 2
Feb 9, 2009 Contributors, Health News, Training Tips
When I begin to write an article, I often sit and try to find a motivating factor. Yet now as I write of baseball, it is not only the easiest topic for me to discuss, but the most daunting as well. With this in mind, please let me explain something that I should have told you in my opening piece in this series.
To my left sits an old catcher’s mitt on the book shelf, worn and battered through time and service. It is a reminder of the past. Decades ago, this mitt and its pint-sized predecessor that I grew out of, would come along everywhere I went: to school, to the run-down old lot and to the driveway, where I would await my Dad’s return home and the start of the nightly ritual of “catch.” Baseball wasn’t just a game, then. It was part of the fabric of your life and conversation that needed no introduction.
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Upper Deck Power – Renegade Style
Jan 30, 2009 Contributors, Training Tips
By John Davies, Founder Renegade Training
Within the sporting world the notion of sport-specific training or training for sport is packed full of fallacies. Spread over rock-solid facts on how to train properly for sport is a vast array of clichés and slick marketing lines. Possibly the sport most plagued with highly questionable “training advice” is baseball.
Baseball, the grand old game, is a sport that I grew up on. The ball and glove were part of my make-up and rarely out of reach. The days and nights were filled with the game but the game was more than that, it was part of our heritage that connected with the past. I grew up hearing of stories of what it was like to dig into the batters box against a barnstorming tour of future legends pre-WWII. Regardless of how the game changed it, always maintains a brilliance that is challenging to describe.
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In Search of Power, Part 6
Jan 12, 2009 Training Tips
By John Davies, Founder Renegade Training
Continuing with the “In Search of Power” series part six, we’re about to take a leap forward with the start of a multi-stage transitional program. During this transitional segment we will begin merging some of the various movements from ground-based DMC™ with the upright RED2 system.
It is crucial that those attempting this segment have started with prior stages and I would not recommend trying to simply “jump into” this area given the enormous demands. For many the basic two starting holds will be challenging and further work in improving glute / hamstring strength, hip flexibility and lowering body fat (suggested article) will be needed.
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In Search of Power, Part 5
Dec 22, 2008 Contributors, General Health & Fitness, Training Tips
By John Davies, Founder Renegade Training
As we look upon the next stage of “In Search of Power” with part four of the development program leading into the full-scale DMC™ system, we will begin to see the first signs of merging the ground-based DMC™ with the upright RED2 system first seen in part two of the series.
For followers of the previous sections, overall strength in the lower extremities and trunk should be exploding and for many it will be a surprise given the lack of cumbersome gym equipment or expensive gym memberships. As shown in the photos, this workout can be done in any setting (i.e. a nice snowy day on top of a mountain) and only requires a minimum amount of space. In fact, exercise enthusiasts and professional trainers and coaches should consider doing this section and eventually the entire DMC™ system in large group settings.
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