Lose Weight By Playing Golf
February 27th 2008 09:03
Golf can be a good sport to lose weight. The benefit won't come from swinging the club but from walking. If the average course is, say, about 6,300 yards, even without trekking into the rough, a round of golf can count as four miles of walking. If you walk 18 holes three to five times a week, you'll get an optimal amount of endurance exercise for your heart out of walking the course.
A study from Finland shoes golf really can promote health and fitness. Participants were 110 healthy but sedentary men between the ages of 48 and 64. Half of the men played 16 hols of golf two to three times a week, always walking the course. Other men in the group didn't play golf but continued their normal routines, including household chores and gardening. After the 20-week experiment, results showed the following : Golfers had pulled ahead losing weight, reducing abdominal fat, improved their aerobic exercise capacity as measured by back extension and boosted the men's HDL cholesterol levels ("good cholesterol").
A study from Finland shoes golf really can promote health and fitness. Participants were 110 healthy but sedentary men between the ages of 48 and 64. Half of the men played 16 hols of golf two to three times a week, always walking the course. Other men in the group didn't play golf but continued their normal routines, including household chores and gardening. After the 20-week experiment, results showed the following : Golfers had pulled ahead losing weight, reducing abdominal fat, improved their aerobic exercise capacity as measured by back extension and boosted the men's HDL cholesterol levels ("good cholesterol").
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