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Hypnosis Helps You Win Golf

Playing any game has a lot to do with mindset and confidence. The more confident you are the more are your chances of doing well in your chosen game. This is true to the game of golf as well. Read on about how hypnosis will help you do well in golf.

Playing Golf has a lot to do with skill and psyche. This is the main reason how hypnosis can help you win your golf game. Hypnosis helps you improve your concentration and strengthen your mind and psyche; thereby helping you do well while playing golf. If you have a lot of problems in life that you are not able to cope up with then this affects your golf game as well. Hypnosis helps you to relax and take control of your mind and helps you focus on your game as well.

You might wonder how hypnosis will help you win a game but believe me if done the right way hypnosis will definitely help you win in golf. Golf is a strategy game and hypnosis is also a strategy that works. Through hypnosis you are able to plan and organize your game strategy, reduce your stress levels and also get rid of negative thoughts. A hypnotic session is usually done when you are totally relaxed. This is to get the best results. Usually these hypnotic sessions are performed at bedtime. What the hypnotic session does is to help you create a feeling or vision in your mind of acting in a particular way that brings about changes in your thoughts and actions. This is true not only to golf but to other areas of your life as well. In golf hypnosis you start to envision yourself as being in good form, perform the correct swings and get the hole-in-one, which is what all golfers want. But hypnosis alone will not increase your skill in golf without you putting a substantial amount of practicing. What hypnosis does is to make your more confident about your game and change your mindset to that of a good golfer.

A self-hypnosis program helps you to remove all obstacles to a winning golf game. All you have to do is listen to the program for a few weeks. This helps you to get rid of all the fears and anxieties that you have about your game. You can remove all the stresses and anxieties that you have about your game. You start thing of yourself as a winner and you start performing well in your golf game.

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By Pradee Aggarwal
16 Nov 2006
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Sports Coaching - 5 Strategies for Dealing with Bad Attitudes

Ugh... the player with a bad attitude. It sounds like a serious sports cliché, but it's true - they are like a cancer in the locker room, on the practice filed/ court and in a game. They can make things difficult for all of the athletes on the team with their constant problematic behavior.

But, believe it or not it is possible to put stop to it - or at least curb it by laying down a few ground rules to begin with. And it doesn't hurt to get the player's parents involved with this as well. It takes a lot of energy to deal with players that have poor attitudes, but they can be turned around, and the impact they have on the rest of the team can be significantly lessened.

Here are a few tools for dealing with problem athletes:

*Lay the ground rules for players and parents - This is the first thing I would tell any coach - especially if they are running a community team as opposed to a school team. I'd even do it if it were a school team I was coaching. Plan a parent's meeting and expect everyone to be there.

At this meeting you will explain to parents and players the conduct that is expected of players and the way they are to carry themselves on the practice field and when you play games. This is very Coach Carter, but it is preached in many current athletic club guidelines - coaches need to take control of the team immediately.

It is important to lay the foundation for: behavior, expectations, practices, games, and the role of the parents.

*Deal with the player as an equal - If you try to act condescending, or worse yet, call out a player in front of their peers, you might not get the response you want. Talk to the player behind closed doors and get them to take an active role in their team. Don't talk down to them.

*Talk to team leaders - If you approach team leaders, they may be able to persuade or have an effect on the behavior of the player(s) with attitude problems. Peer pressure is often the best pressure to put on people.

*Give the player responsibility - Take advantage of the player's influence and turn it into a positive. Get them involved with a major part of the team to try and generate positive interest in what the team is doing. You might be surprised with what they come up with.

*Stay calm - Part of the attitude is to generate a response. Don't let the player see that you are affected by what they are doing.

Pat Anderson
03 Dec 2006

Pat Anderson has been a basketball player and coach for over a decade. His popular blog is full of great coaching tips and basketball drills: http://www.online-basketball-drills.com/

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Run Your Next Marathon Under 3 hrs 30 mins

I recently was asked how I would train someone to run a sub 3 hr 30 min marathon. That is 8 minute per mile pace for 26.2 miles.

No problem. I like to keep it simple when it comes to developing training programs. No complex formulas, just hard work. Ask everybody from a particular race that breaks 3 hr 30 min, and you will likely get countless different training methods that enabled them to run that time. Pop your survey at about mile 19 or 20, and I guarantee most will tell you they wish they had done a few more long runs, and they are probably right.

First of all, you need enough speed/endurance to run at least 22 minutes for a 5K. If you cannot do that, I would say a sub 3 hr 30 min marathon might be tough. If you are already that fast, then you need to focus on 3 key components when preparing for a big race.

Total weekly miles: The number of miles you have run in the previous 12 weeks correlates well with your ability to maintain pace the last 10 miles of a marathon. The questions are, how many miles should you do and what is too much? Without conducting the survey, my guess is a peak of 40 miles per week will be necessary to break 3 hr 30 minutes. You can go more, but here is where you need to develop a feel for balancing training and recovery so you can avoid burnout or injury.

Long run: The second component you need for a successful marathon is the long run. No way around this one either, but again the question is raised, how long is too long? You will want to build up your long run gradually. Once you can do a 10 miler I would just add 1 or 2 miles per week until you reach 17 or 18 miles. Do not worry if you have to cut some of these runs a little short because your legs cannot handle it. If you average 9 minutes per mile, that is going to take you in the neighborhood of 2 hr 40 something minutes. Long enough.

How many of these do you need? The more long runs you do beyond 2 hours the better, but my recommendation is try for at least 4 in the 17-18 mile range, completing the last one 4 weeks before your race.

Pace training: You should run miles at 8 min per mile pace or faster, but how many? Set aside one day per week to work on your race pace, using either an interval program or sustained tempo runs. If you choose intervals, then I use the old Yasso 800s, starting with 6 and moving up to 8, with maybe 1 peak workout at 10 if you can handle it. According to theory, these would be done in 3 min 30 sec or under, with at least 3 minutes to recover. If you choose sustained tempo runs, then I would begin with 3-4 miles and work that up to 7-8 miles at 8 min per mile pace or faster.

You might like to race 5Ks, which are usually held on Saturdays. If that is the case, just cut your Friday run in half. You should still be able to run long on Sunday without too much trouble.

Other issues you must consider are preparing for hills and hot weather, but for now lay out the basic plan to see what it looks like.

Sunday is your long run, adding 1-2 miles each week. Four weeks before your marathon, do a 13-15 mile
time trial.

Monday is a rest day, or light cross training.

Tuesday is an easy 5 mile run.

Wednesday is 800 repeats, starting with 6 increasing to 8 by week 4 or 5.

Thursday is another easy 5 miles.

Friday is an 8 mile run.

Saturday is off or light cross training.

You end up with approximately 40 miles per week, 4 quality long runs, and a good solid base of tempo work. As you can see, the 2 days off provide a great opportunity to add some easy miles if you feel the need, or even better cross train. Let the taper begin!

Most taper programs are designed over 3 or 4 weeks. Here is my suggestion.

4 weeks to go: Schedule a time trial 4 weeks before your race. If a half marathon just happens to be on the calendar, perfect. Otherwise take it easy for a couple of days then see how well you can handle your goal pace for 13-15 miles. Wear the gear you plan to use on race day, eat and drink the same way. Lay out an accurate route that simulates the hills that you will encounter on race day, and you can even start at the same time of day as your race. Do not worry if your pace is a littl slow- often the extra rest you get the week before your big day makes all the difference.

You should feel some soreness for a day or 2 following this effort, which is exactly what you want. Take a couple days off and slowly ease back into running. I tend to believe that my legs always come back stronger a month after a hard effort like this.

3 weeks to go: Your long run is now down to 90 minutes. Everything else stays the same.

2 weeks to go: Same long run, but during the week there will be a difference. On Wed and Fri, run a 1 mile warm up then 4 or 5 mile temp run at your 8 min per mile or faster if you can. You will want to feel comfortable running the pace you need to hold on race day.

1 week to go: Your last long run is 60 minutes, then two more mid-week 4-5 mile tempo runs ought to do it, preferably Tuesday and Thursday if your marathon is Sunday. Anything else is just easy.

Day Before: Just relax, eat and drink!

The time to work hills into this schedule would be Friday or actually in the middle of your long run. To prepare for heat, you might want to wear an extra layer or run later in the day starting 3 weeks before your race.

Dave Elger
12 Jan 2007

Dave Elger is a well respected authority within the running community having written hundreds of articles on the topics of running and wellness. You can contact him at http://www.daveelger.com. He also supports the Okinawa Running Club .