Is sitting bad for your health?  According to studies that inactivity ranks  as fourth in line after high blood pressure, tobacco use, and high cholesterol as a major risk factor for chronic diseases.  Inactiving has been associated with heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and cancers.

Do you sit too much?

Another studies shows that for every additional 30 minutes you spend driving in your car, you increase your chances of becoming obese by three percent. Although that may not seem like much, but within a few years, it could mean an additional 10 to 30 pounds. Add this to the time you spend sitting in front of a computer, at meetings and dinners and you may realize you are not moving as much as you thought.

How does sitting or inactivity affect your golf game?  As you sit the production of enzymes that burn fat declines by as much as 90 percent.  Extended sitting slows the body’s metabolism affecting things like (good cholesterol) HDL levels in our bodies.  Sitting causes some of our muscles to relax as other contract causing muscles imbalances that lead to injury and these things can hurt your golf swing.  Extra weight on your body can slow your swing down and soften your muscles needed to create clubhead speed.  Sitting for a prolonged period of time can stiffen muscles and decrease your flexibility affecting your range of motion and how much you can turn. Sitting causes muscle imbalances that cause swing compensations and flaws that may lead to injury.  Prolonged sitting is not good for your health or your golf swing.

Is Prolonged Sitting Hurting Your Golf Swing?

How can we reverse the affects of prolonged sitting and inactivty? Get up and move, play more golf, get into the gym or just walk.

Now Available on iPhone and Android-The Cardiogolf App

Jump start your golf fitness program this spring with the Cardiogolf App.

The Cardiogolf app includes links to over 50 golf-specific fitness and instructional videos, printouts of golf-specific workouts, links to Karen’s golf tips and advice and a 30-day golf-fitness program. Cardiogolf is a unique approach to improving your golf game by combining golf-specific exercises and swing drills. You are able to kill two birds with one stone, by exercising while you improve your swing. You know you need to exercise for better health, so why not work at your golf game at the same time. Shape Up Your Swing, Trim Your Score with Karenʼs Cardiogolf program. Visit the iTunes store or Google Play.

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