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Ernie Els' Guide to Golf Fitness: Take Strokes Off Your Game and Add Yards to Your Drive | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ernie Els, David Herman
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 236270
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0609806556
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.711
EAN: 9780609806555
ASIN: 0609806556
Publication Date: May 29, 2001
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Condition: New Softcover with pages that are clean, crisp and unmarked. Slightly bent from storage with buttomof edging slightly curled. Lower scores and longer drives....
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One of the biggest mistakes non-golfers and even casual duffers make about the Royal and Ancient game is assuming you don't have to be in shape to play it. The truth is, golf can be an exhausting affair. You can't be a physical wreck and play golf consistently well; as in any sport, the better your condition, the better your chance of success. Two-time U.S. Open champ Ernie Els uses his Guide to Golf Fitness as both a soapbox to stress the benefits of good conditioning and a virtual gym to present a series of general and golf-specific exercises designed to drop your scores as successfully as a good putting tip. Els developed his program--geared specifically to address a golfer's strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular system--with David Herman, the fitness trainer who helped Els shed the 15 pounds he credits with the resurgence of his game and better health overall. Though many of the exercises--all of which Els himself demonstrates in photographs--require gym equipment, others don't, and while all provide a workout, the program can be easily adjusted in its difficulty and demands to fit any level of desire and ability. "It's important," Els stresses, "to choose an exercise program that you enjoy," that challenges, but doesn't grind you down. There's enough grinding required on the course already. --Jeff Silverman
Product Description
Lower Scores and Longer Drives
Let’s face the facts. You need to be in shape to be on your best golf game. Ernie Els’ Guide to Golf Fitness offers a comprehensive and fully illustrated fitness plan for every skill level and body type, because sometimes taking lessons and putting in hours of practice aren’t the only ways to improve your game. Ernie Els’ Guide to Golf Fitness will help you design a program focusing on four key areas:
* Cardiovascular fitness
* Flexibility
* Muscle strength
* Avoiding common golf injuries
This program was designed by Ernie’s personal trainer, David Herman, and together they encourage you to train to prevent injuries and improve your confidence and mental focus, both on and off the course.
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 Great workout for your golf game and your life September 8, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought this was a great basic book on fitness for your golf game. Ernie and David cover stretching, weights, cardio, nutrition, and some injury prevention. The book is less than 150 pages long, so it doesn't go into great detail on any one of the subjects, but I thought that each chapter did cover the subject adequately. The authors give two different suggested workout programs. One for beginners and the other more advanced.
I consider myself to be fairly fit and healthy, and I have used personal fitness trainers in the past. This book didn't violate any principles that I have learned, and it even taught me some things. One - is that David doesn't recommend doing straight bar bench presses for golfers. He likes either the machine or dumbbells for a chest exercise. He feels that the straight bar is too prone to shoulder injury for a golfer.
One thing I wish they had expanded on was an early mention of the three different body types, Ectomorphs, Mesomorphs, and Endomorphs. I hadn't heard this distinction before and was hoping that the book referred back to this in later chapters with suggestions on different exercises for each body type. Unfortunatley for me, it didn't refer to them again at all.
Overall I thought the book did exactly what it promised - it educated the reader on Golf Fitness. If readers follow it's guidelines and the work out program, they will improve strength, flexibility, and overall health. All of which will help lower the golf scores!!
 Excellent book on golf fitness. April 30, 2006
Els does it again. He focuses on the essentials that will help the reader's golf game only now it involves conditioning. Now, I find it amusing that people complaining about "knowing" already of the excercises Els recommends but are they actually doing them? Sure, it's easy for someone to mouth off and say that this book isn't offering anything new but the fact is, they looked up the book for a reason. That's Els MO when it comes to instruction. He expects the reader to actually follow his advice.(Imagine that!) He may be showing simple excercises but the bottom line is, as simple as they are, they work. The reader has to simply committ to doing them
A nice fitness book that will improve your golf game February 2, 2005
I dont understand why other readers didnt like this book. It delivers what it says it will. It is a fitness guide book that will help lower your golf scores if you do what it says.
 Great Expectations Ruined November 30, 2002
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Bought this thinking it would give me some useful exercises for my golf game. Unfortunately, the exercises and ideas are so basic you probably could guess 90% of what's in here. Maybe this is truly all a person needs to know, but I have to think there are some better and more creative approaches out there. Not at all inspirational or motivational.
Waste of time/money September 7, 2002
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Book summary: 1) do basic weight training exercises at high repetition to maintain strength without bulking up, 2) follow basic nutrition regimen, 3) maintain flexibility using traditional stretching exercises, 4) you can only excel at golf if you are long and lean. There truly isn't a new thought or idea in the entire book. Do yourself a favor and pass on this stinker.
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