An Introduction to Golf
Golf is a tremendous game to learn at any age and you can play for your entire life.
Playing golf can bring you some great health and wellbeing benefits. This increasingly popular sport is full of core ingredients that doctors recommend for optimum physical and mental health and wellbeing.
Golf burns more calories than you’d think: playing an 18-hole game of golf burns at least 900 calories. Golf also combines all the known weight-loss benefits of walking combined with the toning and muscle strengthening benefits of swinging the clubs and carrying or pulling your golf bag. During the average game of golf you can walk around five to six miles. ‘Just getting up and walking can have a huge benefit for your health – especially if you’ve been sedentary. If you’re more active, regular walking is still the perfect form of exercise,’
A game of golf will see you walk around five miles and playing regularly will help you easily achieve the recommended 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week. Doctors recommend that we do at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week and the average game of nine-holes will take you almost up to that quota.
Golfing is a social activity and studies show that interaction with others who enjoy what we enjoy increases our self-esteem and happiness. Golfing can help to lift depression, improve someone's outlook on life, and widen a person's social group.
All of these attributes help improve our mental health by leaving us with a feeling of satisfaction. This proves that while not the most hardcore sport, golfing is beneficial to your health in a number of ways.
For more information on starting this wonderful game please contact Lee.
