Product Description

Basic, familiar exercises are illustrated to show how to perform them in a way that maximizes conditioning for success on the links.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #425999 in Books
• Published on: 1998-05-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

About the Author
Peter Sisco is the co-author of numerous fitness and bodybuilding books, including Power Factor Specialization: Abs & Legs (0-80902-2827-0), Power Factor Specialization: Chest & Arms (0-8092-2828-9), and Power Factor Training (0-8092-3017-2).

Customer Reviews

extememly effective program
i have been on this program for 3 months and have increased my overall strength, with ease. it is such a revolutionary idea, that it is hard to believe that it will work. i am 46 and have tried many strength-building programs, with absolutely no success, until this program. i am a scratch golfer and it is very difficult to say that i am longer, but i feel that i am controlling the club much better, due to better balance and overall strength.

The Hype Begins on the Cover
The authors claim that the importance of strength in golf has been underestimated, and they recommend a program of strength training to improve your driving distance. The title suggests that the recommended exercises will take only two minutes per day, and that if you do it you will add 30 yards to your drive in six weeks. The recommended program involves 12 maximum-effort, static contraction exercises in which the effort is to be maintained for only 10 seconds per exercise. The authors claim that this sort of exercise is superior to repetitions, though there is no proof of it here. Further, the time investment will be considerably more than 2 minutes total (12 exercises * 10/sec/excercie = 120 seconds), because it takes time to move from one station to another, adjust the weights, etc. So your time investment will be more like 12 * 3 min/exercise = 36 minutes total minimum, which is not much less time than it would take to get a similar amount of exercise through repetitions. Also, as for the claim that you can add 30 yards to your drives, only one (a male) of their eight test subjects did that. The other three males gained from 6 to 9 yards. Gains of the four females ranged from 5 to 19 yards, though all of them started out as short drivers (range 148 to 171), so there was lots of room for improvement. But even these gains cannot be accepted at face value, because this "experiment" had no control group! There is no control for gains in performance as a result of increased golfing practice, nor is there any control for a placebo effect (getting better because you believe that a special training program is going to help you; maybe it just improved your confidence or your effort or your concentration). As a researcher I can tell you that this study would not have been accepted as a master's thesis at most top universities. I regret spending my money on this book. On the plus side, however, this book could be worthwhile if it convinces you that your golfing performance will be improved by maintaining good physical fitness, including good diet and exercise, and perhaps including strength training, though the authors have little to say about flexibility and aerobic fitness, which many pro golfers empahsize [see Golf Begins at 50, by Gary Player--5 stars]. But if you look at the size of the longest hitters on the PGA and LPGA tours, your best bet for increasing your driving distance would be to grow six inches taller so you can get more leverage from a longer swing arc! --Bill from Bangor

Amazing Results!
I have just finished my first week of "two-minute" workouts as per the instructions within "The Golfer's 2-Minute Workout." I read about their ground-breaking study and book in Golf magazine and liked the idea that there was actually a scientific study conducted on their method with positive results such as a dramatic increase in average drive distance. To my knowledge, this is the only study ever conducted on a strength training method that has a direct application to golfers (many other books I've read are simply taking general bodybuilding exercises and saying that they "also work" for golfers).I am pleased to report that the book delivers exactly what its title indicates, as I'm already (after only one week!) far stronger and experiencing gains in both distance off the tee and in control, that I would not have imagined (having been an avid golfer for 14 years already). I think that the authors have hit upon an innovation that is truly revolutionary and that is that strength is a key ingredient to being or becoming a better golfer. And their program builds it quicker and more dramatically than any I've ever seen. The good news is their program is so brief but the results of it are immediate and substantial. I recommend this method of exercise and this book to any golfer looking to improve his or her game.