The Hammer
* Ace Member *
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2008
- Messages
- 4,862
Last edited:
-
Discover new ways to elevate your game with the updated DGCourseReview app!
It's entirely free and enhanced with features shaped by user feedback to ensure your best experience on the course. (App Store or Google Play)
Disc Golf is Socializing
- Thread starter yangs1
- Start date
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2009
- Messages
- 15,781
Do you really need someone to help you figure out where DG lies on the excercise spectrum?
Of course it beats a sedentary lifestyle, but there's no way it's a substitute for resitsance training (to build mass muscle mass and increase metabolosim), or and legitimate cardio vascular activity like swimming, biking, etc, that raises your heart rate continuosly for 30 min or so at a time and really gets you huffing and puffing.
Obviously, the more siginificant the elevation changes and the longer the course, the more bang you get for your excercise buck, but disc golf is as mild as excerices gets - no more than a walk or disgustingly short hike. Frequent pauses for throws don't really help maintain an elevated heart rate. I'm not saying you might not want to rest after a couple of rounds or even take a nap, but c'mon, it is was it is.
DG is to excerecise, as the Yugo is to cars: certainly beats no transport (physical activity)at all, but it's nothing to brag about, and really can't compete with other, more substantial, alternatives.
Of course it beats a sedentary lifestyle, but there's no way it's a substitute for resitsance training (to build mass muscle mass and increase metabolosim), or and legitimate cardio vascular activity like swimming, biking, etc, that raises your heart rate continuosly for 30 min or so at a time and really gets you huffing and puffing.
Obviously, the more siginificant the elevation changes and the longer the course, the more bang you get for your excercise buck, but disc golf is as mild as excerices gets - no more than a walk or disgustingly short hike. Frequent pauses for throws don't really help maintain an elevated heart rate. I'm not saying you might not want to rest after a couple of rounds or even take a nap, but c'mon, it is was it is.
DG is to excerecise, as the Yugo is to cars: certainly beats no transport (physical activity)at all, but it's nothing to brag about, and really can't compete with other, more substantial, alternatives.
Last edited:
alcstradamus
Par Member
OP: "Disc golf is exercise"
Straw man argument repeated by multiple other people: "Disc golf is not a hardcore workout you pussies"
:wall:
It shouldn't take more than the most basic of comprehension skills to understand that walking a couple miles while carrying a 10 pound bag, repeatedly picking it up and setting it down, and repeatedly using your core in an explosive movement is exercise. Whether that counts a 'sufficient' exercise is a completely different arguement and is based on your age, gender, current fitness levels, and goals.
Straw man argument repeated by multiple other people: "Disc golf is not a hardcore workout you pussies"
:wall:
It shouldn't take more than the most basic of comprehension skills to understand that walking a couple miles while carrying a 10 pound bag, repeatedly picking it up and setting it down, and repeatedly using your core in an explosive movement is exercise. Whether that counts a 'sufficient' exercise is a completely different arguement and is based on your age, gender, current fitness levels, and goals.
grodney
* Ace Member *
Yeah, but what if you have a little we!ner or other self-image issues and/or superiority complexes? Then you can post about it and argue and stuff, right?
Does disc golf make it bigger??
grodney
* Ace Member *
I wish.
Can I get a mulligan?
Doc: "Are you exercising?"
Me: "No, I just play tons of disc golf."
Doc: "You mean where you throw the frisbees and go get them and throw them again?" At this point he does a limp wristed, mocking, throwing motion.
Me: "Yeah." Head down. I'm thinking to myself "Wow, he's got better form than I do."
Doc: "That's not exercise that's socializing."
Me: "I agree. I'm a lazy, fat ass American who thinks walking is exercise."
Doc: "Are you exercising?"
Me: "No, I just play tons of disc golf."
Doc: "You mean where you throw the frisbees and go get them and throw them again?" At this point he does a limp wristed, mocking, throwing motion.
Me: "Yeah." Head down. I'm thinking to myself "Wow, he's got better form than I do."
Doc: "That's not exercise that's socializing."
Me: "I agree. I'm a lazy, fat ass American who thinks walking is exercise."
grodney
* Ace Member *
Anyway, alcstradamus is totally right. Sheesh.
bluTDI09
Par Member
No, but the internet does.... :\
onemilemore
* Ace Member *
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2009
- Messages
- 15,781
Forgot to mention: it's also relative to your activity level. If you were previously doint nothing that could be remotely called excercise, then it's a start, and will probably feel significant to you. Sorry, that just means you're not in good shape and playing a few times a week will probably do you some good. But if you're in any sort of decent shape, the game should not be considered your excercise routine.
alcstradamus
Par Member
onemilemore
* Ace Member *
Be honest: Before going out for a round of disc golf, have you ever once thought to yourself, "Man, this is gonna be a good round of exercise today!"?
opcorn:
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2009
- Messages
- 15,781
alcstradamus
Par Member
Be honest: Before going out for a round of disc golf, have you ever once thought to yourself, "Man, this is gonna be a good round of exercise today!"?
Yes, when I play Camden 2 or West Lake (mainly West Lake).
When I play other courses not on those levels, no. But I do still consider it to be exercise, just not a workout. Because it is exercise.
EDIT: to clarify on West Lake. The holes themselves are about 2 miles, so the walk is probably 3 or 4 miles and is very hilly and terrain is rough. My bag is also heavier from all of the extra discs I'm carrying for the water throws. I throw around 110 throws over the 3 hour round. Also, there is a lot of fighting through the woods and brush retreiving errant throws. You really can feel physically beat down after the round.
Last edited:
onemilemore
* Ace Member *
I agree. But I think the OP's doc was looking for something that raises the heart rate a bit more - so exercise in the traditional sense.
My hope is that people aren't using disc golf as a substitute for regular exercise, but rather as a supplement to a more strenuous routine.
grodney
* Ace Member *
And the beer! I carried 4 full bottles (plus a freezer bag) with me on Sunday. It was a workout!! (It was too cold to drink them (low 50s, brrrr).) I finally broke down and opened one halfway through the 2nd round, just to lighten my load if nothing else.
- Joined
- Sep 26, 2009
- Messages
- 180
Couldn't disagree more, I've lost 75 pounds doing it. But I play 15-30 hours a week
DeadEye
Double Eagle Member
Be honest: Before going out for a round of disc golf, have you ever once thought to yourself, "Man, this is gonna be a good round of exercise today!"?
I usually do, but that's probably because I stretch and do cardio before hand, play several rounds or just empty my bag on each hole(about 150-270 throws), and then end with some cardio to get the blood pumping to clear the lactic acid out of my muscles. Of course, this is mostly on my off days when I'm practicing, days where I'm playing money rounds I usually am far more lazy.
And no-one ever said that DG was the same as weight training, jogging, swimming, etc. etc. etc. that's you guys pulling stuff out of your ass. There is a serious difference between exercise and working out, I think some of you might to use your brains a little more even when talking about muscles. Funny thing too, I've got a friend that's one of the more established personal trainers in town, he can bench me but rarely beats me.
I wonder if there are ball golf forums where people have such idiotic discussions, and badmouth their own sport and their own players as much as you guys do... probably not. Oh well, maybe when all of the pessimists and haters in DG die or quit the sport can grow a little.
Seriously people... learn the difference between exercise and working out.
Similar threads
