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I’ve got to let this “off my chest!”

Having been a certified fitness professional for over 22 years…and having worked exclusively with golfers the past 10 years…I went on an “info-binge” to see what information was out there pertaining to fitness for golf.

This started about 7 years ago…and there wasn’t much published back then.

But as the years went by I saw a couple of “so-called” fitness for golf books and bought every one of them! I was determined to see what ‘other’ fitness professionals considered fitness for golf.

Now let’s fast-forward several years to…let’s say now!

I received an email for a refund request of my Ultimate Golf Fitness Manual for the reason of grammatical errors!

I was in shock!

This is a “jam-packed”, VERY golf-specific “all-encompassing” manual of over 370 pages!!!

This is a manual I have invested years, months, days and hours putting together…all out of my disgust of the crappy books available in the bookstores. I am not an English major, nor profess to be. But I have more passion and conviction for my profession than most in my industry put together!

Needless-to-say, I got a little MAD! Actually I was PISSED!

My wife didn’t know what to do. She tried to calm me down…that didn’t work. She left me alone…that was a little better. Sorry honey!

But then it hit my like a TON of bricks!

While my wife was sitting in my office listening to my tirade, I went to my cabinet and started pulling out all these “so-called” golf fitness books that I had paid my hard-earned money for.

Well…what happened next surprised even me!

I started pulling them out one-by-one and very aggressively opening pages and ranting to my wife about all the crap in these books.

I said to her…”if I see one more golfer sitting on a leg extension machine ‘in a gym’ I’m going to lose it!”

This is what these “so-called” books were calling GOLF FITNESS?

That’s BS!

As I pulled out book after book and saw the same pictures of golfers “sitting on machines” I went over the deep end.

I threw out EVERY book I had!

Man did I feel better!

My heart rate is still up, but I’m doing much better…thank you!

I thought…since this is MY BLOG and I can say whatever I want…and I was going to do it…

RIGHT NOW!

This is the first time in 6 years of being “on the net” with my online golf fitness sites and products that I have ever done this.

Maybe I should do it more often!

I guess I should thank this person for bringing out ALL MY PASSION!

So be forewarned…if you buy a book on golf fitness…and see a golfer sitting “on his butt” in a machine…skip that book and go on to the next one.

That’s NOT golf fitness…that’s GENERAL fitness…and won’t prepare the golfer for the dynamic position he/she is in throughout the swing (which is “on your feet” I might add).

Thank you for taking time out of your day to listen to my rant!

Have a great 4th of July weekend!

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I would have to say that it is sad the way people are always looking for their money back for no good reason. guess the old saying that you can not please everybody is true .as far as these other people publishing material, seems like there are so many fitness experts out there that make me wonder where did these people get their info from? the ones that really get me are the people claiming to have a new diet or training routine only to see that it is nothing new, just repackaged that way. sorry that this person got you upset, some people seem to like doing that to others and that is wrong . just know in your heart that you are a good person and are trying to be honest and help people, that is my approach when I get frustrated with people ( I work with about 650-700 people and that happens to me a lot, they are like what about me and do not see you are really there to help them) not sure if this helps any but want you to know other people out there do appreciate the things you do :vava:

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I would have to say that it is sad the way people are always looking for their money back for no good reason.  guess the old saying that you can not please everybody is true .as far as these other people publishing material, seems like there are so many fitness experts out there that make me wonder where did these people get their info from? the ones that  really get me are the people claiming to have a new diet or training routine only to see that it is nothing new, just repackaged that way. sorry that this person got you upset, some people seem to like doing that to others and that is wrong . just know in your heart that you are a good person and are trying to be honest and help people, that is my approach when I get frustrated with people ( I work with about 650-700 people and that happens to me a lot, they are like what about me and do not see you are really there to help them) not sure if this helps any but want you to know other people out there do appreciate the things you do  :vava:

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Thanks for the 'kind' words :D

 

I've been offering my golf fitness products and membership sites for over 5 years now on the net and get the occasional "you know what" like the one I mention. Hey...it makes the world go around I guess.

 

I will continue preaching my golf fitness gospel to anyone who has an open mind and wants to improve their game.

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Well, I can add my testimony to Mike's program.

 

I cannot believe time passes so quickly and I have been a member on Mike's online program for 8 months now! To keep this post short, I feel better, carry myself better, lost some weight, feel fitter and most importantly, my golf swing is improved with improvements in flexibility and strength. :vava: As a guess, I have probably added 10-15 yards conservatively to my drives.

 

Anyway, I fully believe in what Mike preaches, fitness is definately the key to better golf!

 

:D

 

-Keng

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I would have to say that it is sad the way people are always looking for their money back for no good reason.  guess the old saying that you can not please everybody is true .as far as these other people publishing material, seems like there are so many fitness experts out there that make me wonder where did these people get their info from? the ones that  really get me are the people claiming to have a new diet or training routine only to see that it is nothing new, just repackaged that way. sorry that this person got you upset, some people seem to like doing that to others and that is wrong . just know in your heart that you are a good person and are trying to be honest and help people, that is my approach when I get frustrated with people ( I work with about 650-700 people and that happens to me a lot, they are like what about me and do not see you are really there to help them) not sure if this helps any but want you to know other people out there do appreciate the things you do  :D

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Thanks for the 'kind' words :blink:

 

I've been offering my golf fitness products and membership sites for over 5 years now on the net and get the occasional "you know what" like the one I mention. Hey...it makes the world go around I guess.

 

I will continue preaching my golf fitness gospel to anyone who has an open mind and wants to improve their game.

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Mike keep up the good work, when I started golfing..... before the tiger era, I was heavily into bodybuilding and everybody told me dude you can not work out and golf it just will not work. well my feeling is that as long as I am flexible and can make a good turn and sync my body up I am doing well. since I have started golfing I have backed off ( maybe too much :blink: on lifting heavy weights ) still have good core strength though :cheesy: and now everybody is like dude man these tour guys are hitting the ball a long way by working out.... uhhhhh that is what I used to do and almost was :vava:

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I see GXGolfer and GolfTrainer are one in the same.

 

Sorry Mike I replied thinking that your rant was real.

I didn’t realize that you were just priming the pump to

start a thread that would be just a form of self-promotion.

Do you have any other screen names you post under?

Perhaps it’s been only you and me in this exchange all along.

Best of luck pushing your “stuff”. Your actions speak volumes.

 

SportMassge

:D

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Golftrainer is Mike Pedersen. I am not Mike Pedersen but, sure would like to look like him. :vava: Mike Pedersen is the Moderator for the Golf Fitness section and has a very successful fitness program. He is a noted authority on Sports fitness and has many published articles in various golf magazines. He has given us his permission to post his blogs and articles and moderates this forum and in exchange he can promote his products.

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