Highlights:
- A solid round of golf
- 3 workout is a week streak continues
Lowlight:
- This Weather
I’m really happy that I’ve been able to keep up with all these 3 a week work out schedules. I do seem to be front-loading my workouts in the beginning of the week which left me sore, so sore that I feel it is smart move to not hit the gym and rest up towards the end of the week. My schedule has opened up on Thursday evenings but if go Monday- Tuesday rest Wednesday then hit it at the remaining of the work week.
This will increase my workouts from 3 to 4 a week. I wonder if I will be able to handle that extra volume, but I am eager to try it out. I have a plan I will try it out for one week where I will push my self to get that 4th in and see how I feel on the next week and if I can’t make it to all 4 so be it I will regroup and wait a week to try it again.
This will mean that my diet will also have to improve as the Mcdonalds it still pretty prevalent and so are other similar types of restaurants. I have already started pre-cooking breakfast consisting of 2 eggs and 2 bacon pieces which have helped me fix binge eating at lunch. Maybe I can move to meal prepping some lunches as well to help curve the need to go out for lunch every day.
It is nice to get out of work for that 45 minutes or so and relax and let the mind rest before that afternoon stacked of work slaps me in the face as soon as I walk into the office. So I assume slow progress on bringing lunch to the office until I can find a way to escape for lunch but not eat out.
Onto the Thursday golf round.
My friend was able to snag a great deal on a 9:30 am tee time. It was little hairy having skipped out on work but hey the weather was nice and I like to golf so #treatyourself We played Portside at Harborside and I was determined to figure out how to swing my new driver. This one of my favorite parts about Playing at Harborside is that you feel like you can use your diver 16 times a round.
My buddy noticed that my Driver swing was all out of whack, I was way off balance. I was falling forward after my seeing unable to hold a pose. This is the first time I have experienced this type to a fault in my swing. After some video of my swing, I wasn’t able to see any major faults as to why my body was falling forward after my follow through. He gave me a cue just to “be an athlete and swing the club” for whatever reason that helped me a ton.
I think just trying to be concise of where my weight was and when the shift happened with my new flexible shaft. It looked like my arms were coming way to low and adjusting my center of gravity forward causing me to fall forward because I was trying to chase the swing rather than use the flex to my advantage.
It took 5 or 6 holes for me to realize this and then a couple more to get my arms back on a nice swing plane but once I did it felt very comfortable now its time to get to the range and practice, practice, practice to get that muscle memory locked in. If I can get off the tee better my golf game should improve by at least 3 to 5 strokes.
My long iron game is definitely the strongest part of my game so that is why I believe this new driver will make such a difference to my scorecard.
Have a great week!