Energy Levels and Your Golf Scores
Have you ever shot your greatest round of golf, and then
followed it up with one
of your worst rounds? This is a common phenomenon from beginner to Tour
Player, and will
continue to be. Why? The following true story should help you
understand this
frustrating problem.
Player X, a middle age male athlete in good health, started taking lessons from me in 2001. At the time he was averaging 80 to 92. It took us 4 years, or to the beginning of 2005, to get him to shoot his career best 68. He shot 68 in the first day of a two-day tournament. Leading the field, the next day he shot 84. Five days later he went to the hospital with pneumonia!
What happened? It is often a common for your greatest performance or your greatest week or your greatest month to be followed by a poor performance. Often a cold, the flu or super exhaustion, allergy attack, injury, or some other ailment, will occur within a few minutes, a few days…or even a month or more after the great performance.
This occurs because you lost the SUPER ENERGY supplies required to SUPER perform. Great things take great energy. If you hit a great shot you zapped great energy from your body. A four-hour normal round of golf burns 1300 to 2100 calories of energy. This is for normal/average days on the course. Super golf requires considerably energy, i.e. SUPER ENERGY.
What happened to player X? He did not rest well after the 68 through to the morning of day two. Food and rest acts as a team to recharge your batteries. Golfer X was not eating fast enough to replace the energy his brain used the day before and create the high energy levels still needed to keep him at high performance. He was not eating fast enough while he was playing his 68 round and his brain went looking for reserve energy stores. Every cell in the body contains stored energy that can be used by the brain. Guess where the brain chose to take energy? It chose to take energy from the immune system. To make matters worse, his previous week at work was one of the most hectic and stressful he had ever encountered. So the brain continued to eat into his energy supplies in his immune system resulting in low SUPER ENERGY and poor golf the rest of the week and in illness by the end of the week.
Here are some tips to help:
- Sip and Nibble between every shot whatever your diet is, Natural Protein +Carbs +Fat + Sugar + Water. According to the Calorie Loss equation you will lose at least 2000 or more calories per 18-hole round, especially if you are playing well and consuming SUPER ENERGY. Replenish your energy after every shot.
- After your great feat, especially as you get older, plan on resting and eating nutritionally well until you heal. The more worn out your body’s health systems are, the longer it will take you to heal and get back to the SUPER Zone.
- Meanwhile, if you have to play after your great SUPER Zone run, then don’t worry about the results you achieve. Your brain acts like a high-powered computer (really that is an insult to what the brain can really do, but it will give you the right picture). It stores everything received by the five senses, every second, and the latest data I heard, it has enough storage capacity for a million years of input, that is if we could breathe that long. You never forget the bad shots or bad swings. The good news is that the brain also keeps all the great stuff. Great swings and shots require high SUPER ENERGY. If that is not readily available when your energy level gets low, the brain chooses to play the bad shot tapes. The result is bad shots usually resulting from decelerations (a slowing of your movement because you’re tired).
- Don’t practice more after great feats or after a terrible performance; both sap your SUPER ENERGY levels, so heal with rest and food. Note how long it takes you to get back to full health so you wont make the same mistake again.