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Recreation - Gauge Crochet Gauge is the number of stitches per inch and the number of rows per inch produced when working with a particular size of yarn and a specific hook. Gauge varies from crocheter to crocheter, even when they are using exactly the same yarn and hook. To get beyond this problem a swatch, or small sample piece is made in the stitch pattern using the size of yarn and hook. A swatch will help you determine if you meet the patterns intended gauge. For the best results, make a crocheted swatch of at least 6 inches square and then measure the stitches in the center of the swatch to determine gauge. Often a crochet pattern doesn’t suggest a gauge swatch. It may say instead 4 stitches and 4 rows = 1 inch. To ...

Recreation - Get A Hobby According to Dictionary.com, a hobby is “an activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation and engaged in primarily for pleasure” (Dictionary.com). Merriam-Webster defines a hobby as “a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation” (Merriam Webster Dictionary). A hobby is relaxation and pleasure, OUTSIDE of one’s occupation. Many people today, go to work, come home, do not do anything, and...

Recreation - Get Fit For Golf To Play Your Best Fit for golf is a term you should have heard by now. It’s all over the television and now becoming mainstream with amateur golfers wanting to reach their full potential. Golfers are now realizing there is a fitness component to golf, and are seriously considering getting fit for golf. It may sound like an oxymoron, but tell me if you’ve ever hurt yourself playing golf. How about a strained lower back? Or, a sore shoulder after playing? The list of injuries from swinging a golf club is a mile long. This would defend the point that getting fit for golf is NOT an oxymoron, but in fact a necessity, if you want to end the frustration, and play like you know you are capable of. Golf is a ‘physical’ game that puts ...

Recreation - Giant Sequoias – Hiking Boole Tree Loop The Giant Sequoia trees of California are a site to see. Despite heavy logging efforts, you can still hike through these massive trees on the Boole Tree Loop. Giant Sequoia National Monument The park system in central California is incredible. You have Sequoia National Park, the first national park ever designated in the country. Next to it is King Canyon National Park, created in 1940. Surrounding a good portion of these two is the new Giant Sequoia National Monument, designated such by President Clinton in 2000. The three parks form a sanctuary for incredible scenery, including the Giant Sequoias on the Boole Tree Lo...

Recreation - Go Karts - Becoming A Racing Enthusiast Free to Reprint Digital Reprint Rights: - You have permission to reprint this article in your website as long as the author's resource box remains intact, with the active links...

Recreation - Golf Balance Exercises To Create A Rock-solid Golf Swing Golf balance exercises should be a must for every amateur golfer. One of the biggest issues with most amateurs is balance, stability and body control in th...

Recreation - Golf Core Exercises For More Power Golf core exercises. You hear that phrase quite often on the television by the commentators referring to the area a lot of the touring pros focus on to improve their power output and prevent low back injuries. Vijay Singh for example uses weighted medicine balls to work his golf core muscles throughout the whole week of the tournament. In fact his caddie is his rainier. How convenient! The best of both worlds! But hearing the phrase golf core exercises and knowing what your core is are two different things entirely. As a fitness professional it’s easy for me to throw out that phrase often to impress would-be clients or customers to my golf fitness training products. But that’s not the case. Understanding what your core is and how it plays a critical role in producing maximum power injury prevention a...

Recreation - Golf Exercise And Stretch Program For Total Golf Performance Golf exercise and stretch. This is a combination I use in all of my golf fitness programs both online and with my personal golf clients. It’s the ultimate combination to improve the golfers swing quickly and efficiently. A fitness program for golfers that does not incorporate a golf exercise and stretch is doing more harm than good. Golfers need that blend of dynamic strength specific to the golf swing and the range of motion to hold it for 18 holes. So man...

Recreation - Golf Fitness Dvd: Improve Your Game In Your Living Room Plugging in a golf fitness dvd is a great alternative to relying on yourself for motivation and consistency. The dvd craze has caught on with golfers of all ages and abilities. Golf instruction dvds have been very popular, but now golf fitness dvds ar...

Recreation - Golf Practice Isn’t Important If… Golf practice can only help your game if your body can do what you ask of it on the range. Does that make sense? How often have you taken time out of your day to go to the range for golf practice only to leave more frustrated than when you did when you first got there? Now come on…be honest! Every amateur golfer has experienced this more times than we can count. Why is this? Because our body can’t perform a mechanically sound swing when it is physically weak and tight. Picture the last time you hit a bucket of balls. Out of the whole bucket, how many swings really felt good, and the ball did what you wanted it to do? I’ll bet you can count them on less than one hand. Or maybe I’m being harsh...

Recreation - Golf Specific Weight Training Don't Fear It The fascinating thing about golf-specific weight training is that despite the fear many golfers have of it, there is really nothing to be afraid of. Why should there be any reason for fear when 80 year old persons are comfortably going through them. And what’s more is these elderly persons have quite often hailed the weight training as being responsible for the dramatic improvement...

Recreation - Golf Stretching Exercises Have A Direct Impact On Your Drives Golf stretching exercises have been known to have such a huge impact on the golf swing that their popularity amongst golfers has spread like wild fire in recent years. Yet in some cases the golf stretching routines have not been gotten from a real golf-specific exercise expert. While it is true that any stretching exercise and strength exercise will usually result in dramatic changes in a persons’ golf game, getting the real thing from...

Recreation - Golf Swing Aids Aren’t Effective If… Golf swing aids are rampant! Every golfer has dozens of them gathering dust in their garages or closets. How many wives have threatened a “clearing out” of these contraptions? If you are feeling me…keep reading. Have you purchased golf swing aids only to use them once or twice and not...

Recreation - Golf Swing Flexibility Exercises That Will Add Distance Quickly Golf swing flexibility exercises that are the most effective are not what you read in all the “so-called” fitness for golf books. I make this bold statement because I bought every golf fitness bo...

Recreation - Golf Swing Help With A Different Approach Golf swing help is a thought in most amateur golfers minds on a daily basis. The never-ending search for a quick fix to your golf swing. I receive emails every day reading how golfers have tried “everything”...

Recreation - Golf Swing Improvement The Fast Way Golf swing improvement is a never ending goal for every golfer wanting to play better golf. ...

Recreation - Golf Swing Release...how Important Is It An optimal golf swing release has a lot to do with the way the golfer controls their body and makes use of their muscles right from the back swing to the impact and follow through. And the muscles involved are not just those in the arm. The feet, knees, hamstring, hips and spine are all very important in achieving a good golf swing release. The perfect golf swing release will happen with one co...

Recreation - Golf Swing Trainer…what Is It Golf swing trainer is a term you might think of for a training aid that works on your golf swing. I’ve come up with a new definition for a golf swing trainer. It happens to be what I do for a living. I won’t take up this whole article talking about myself, but I do want you to think of a golf swing trainer in a different light after reading this. You see…I’ve watched and read about the millions of golfers who are in search of the “silver bullet”. The “magic pill” that will give them the perfect swing and the game they dream of. Well…it’s not out there! I hate to ruin the party, but there is no such thing.

Recreation - Golf Workouts For Winter Golf workouts for winter is a great approach to taking advantage of the time you now have available to improve your golf since you’re not playing as much, if not at all. It’s a way to stay connected to your golf game when you’re not able to play due to the conditions (snow, temperatures, ice, etc.). Have you gone into depression mode when winter hits and you can’t play golf anymore? I know this use to happen to me until I finally moved to a year-round nice climate. This transition from playing golf regularly to not at all can be depressing. What do you do with all the time you now have since you’re not playing? The answer? Golf workouts for the winter! This is your “off-season” and like most athletes they work on their body’s to take their game to the next level. This is a tim...

Recreation - Golfer’ Back Exercise Can Eliminate Back Pain ‘Golfer’ back exercise is a key part of any golf-specific exercise routine. A closer look at the golf swing will show clearly that it heavily depends on and indeed leans on the back. Actually a perfect golf swing is really all about using the spine as an axis to allow the correct swing plane. The spine is at the very center and core of the golf swing. The facts of the matter are that a golfer with a back problem will always face an uphill and maybe impossible task when it comes to improving on their game. The back will always come in the way of any efforts at improvement. This is where ‘golfer’ back exercise come in. They can b...

Recreation - Greyhound Racing Basics In Egypt the greyhounds were mummified and buried with their masters. The Egyptians viewed them as supreme among all animals. The greyhounds also find place in the literary works of Shakespeare, Chaucer and Homer. In England, greyhound was considered as a status symbol back in 10th century. Only noblemen were permitted to hunt with them. Later, Queen Elizabeth I made rules regarding the ...

Recreation - Hdtv? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet! Remember the Osborn? Or was it the Osborne? Actually, I knew it existed, but didn’t care. This thing was a personal computer. Like we’d ever need one of those? Those new electric typewriters with memory were the rage. THAT was something!Flash forward and we are upon the reverse engineered UFO goodies. Oh, wait, no, that’s not exactly right.It’s the dawning of the age of Aquarius, age of Aquarius, Ah QUAR EEEE USSS. Um, no, that was some time ago.It’s the age of $3 US Gas. Not a good milestone.The age of HDTV!!! Remember when “high definition” included the terms “stems and seeds?” You do? You rascal.No, this is about High Definition TELEVISION. Personally, I feel the word TELEVISON...

Recreation - Hiking Trails – Preserve Your Experiences Hiking is a great way to escape the rat race, get out in nature and leave the stress of the world behind. Alas, your hiking experiences can fade with time. The best way to prevent this is to keep a hiking journal. Hiking Journals Take a minute to give some consideration to your most recent hiking experience. What sticks out in your mind? Who did you go with and were there any incredible views? Now think about the first time you ever went hiking. Undoubtedly, you remember few things about the geography, people you went...

Recreation - Hit Longer Drives…here’s How To hit longer drives is the dream of every golfer on the planet! Even the professionals players want to hit longer drives. Is there a magic bullet? Do you really know what it takes to dramatically improve your driving distance? I’ll bet your first answer will be a new driver at $500. Am I right? If not a driver…take more golf lessons. Am I getting warmer yet? If I still haven’t guessed right…hit more balls at the range? Am I scorching hot yet? The key to hit longer drives is clubhead speed and solid ball-clubface contact. That’s it! Seems easy enough right? Not! The ONLY way to improve clubhead speed is to have optimal strength and flexibility in your core region. This is the area of your body that creates the torque on the backswing t...

Recreation - Hobby Psychology Happiness is the culmination of small amounts of success. You will inevitably not be successful at everything you try to do. Also, if you measure your success by extreme standards, such as accomplishing some great and important task then you will likely often be too hard on yourself and feel like a failure, despite all of your other small successes. It is better to focus on the small successes and ...

Recreation - Home Theater: 3 Ugly Secrets Revealed! Secret #1: WHAT YOU BUY TODAY WILL BE OBSOLETE TOMORROW, IF IT ISN'T ALREADY.What you should do about it:Don't sweat it. Just read what you can before you buy to educate yourself so you don't make...

Recreation - How A Golf Stretching Routine Can Impact Your Game Quickly Even as you read this article, golf stretching routines continue to positively revolutionize the games of many golfers around the country and indeed around the world. Golf stretching routines play a major role in helping many golfers achieve consistent and good results on the course with their swing. Still many golfers are yet to fully appreciate the potential of golf stretching routines and many are not aware of the fact that they usually have a h...

Recreation - How To Implement Golf Fitness Exercises Into Your Golf Swing Improvement Program Over the last few weeks at BioForce Golf, we have had many questions about golf fitness exercises. Questions such as: are these type of exercises beneficial to someone who has had a lower back injury, what are the best types of exercises to improve my clubhead speed, and what flexibility exercises can improve my back swing? Through many of our free daily...

Recreation - How To Improve Your Golf Swing With Fitness Training Fitness training is one of the keys to help you improve your golf swing. In addition fitness training can help you get in shape and feel better both on and off the golf course. Performing exercises to build muscular strength can add power to your golf swing, boost your endurance, and loosen up your muscles and joints to help you avoid injuries both on and off the golf course. Most golfers will do the actual fitness training in a gym using either free weights, machines or a combination of both. However, you can also perform fitness training right at home using everyday items. Your golf fitness training program should include exercises for the both the lower and upper body and primarily focus on those exercises that add to the motion of the golf swing. The program exercises should involve multi-joint movements that also include ...

Recreation - How To Use Exercise For Golf To Strengthen Your Swing Using exercise for golf to strengthen your swing could be one of the wisest decisions you’ve ever make in regards to improving power and distance. Have you tried those gimmicky training aids in hopes to strengthen your swing? If so, were you successful? I can take a guess, but I won’t get on you too much. Most of the touring pros are now using exercise for golf to strengthen their swing and have seen their driving distance go way up. And yes…their equipment has a little bit to do with it, but can’t take all the credit. I have said thousands of times, “it’s your BODY that plays the game, not your equipment”. Doesn’t that make sense to you? Like any athlete…he or she spends a huge amount of time strengthening their muscles specific to their sport.

Recreation - How Your Golf Driver Swing Can Have More Power A golf driver swing that is lacking in power has a couple of issues that need to be addressed. A golf driver swing is slightly different than your other clubs...but needs to have the same sequence of motion and body position at impact to produce more power and distance of the tee. Most golfers swing outside their physical capabilities resulting in lost yardage and accuracy. Has this ever happened to you? You step up on a long par 4 or a par 5 and tell yourself you’re going to get their in two. What did you do differently on the tee to achieve ...

Recreation - Ice Climbing – Preserve Your Experiences Ice climbing is a great way to escape the rat race and live on the edge. Alas, your ice climbing experiences can fade with time. The best way to prevent this is to keep a ice climbing journal for your adventures. Ice Climbing Journals Take a minute to give some consideration to your most recent ice climbing experience. What sticks out in your mind besides the fact it was cold? Did you climb a waterfall? Now think...

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