Green Living Tips Made Fun and Easy!

"IDEAL BITE" offers bite-sized ideas for light green living! What a great site this is. You will want to sign up for their FREE Daily Tips! *We have added the Daily Tip widget to our Blog ~ (See left side of blog!)

Ideal Bite says: "We know that you would just love to "do the right thing" for yourself and the planet if it were convenient, fun, inexpensive, and made you feel good. But until now you have lacked a good source of advice for real people leading busy lives. Congrats. Now you have a free one. Easy eco-living tips are delivered in a short, sassy email each weekday."

Spring 2008 ~ Golf "Get Fit" TIPS!

Found some great fitness tips at PinkGolfTees.com! Let's work it out ladies!! Fore!

"Women golfers typically need more work in the area of upper body, wrist, ankles and hip area strength than their male counterparts.Here are a few simple exercises that will greatly improve your game and don’t require a gym or trainer.

1) One of the best exercises for overall strength for golf is the typical pushup. A counter-top – incline – pushup works well also. You can do them with your elbows out for chest strength; then do them with your elbows rubbing your sides to work the triceps. Work up to 20 pushups. Golf benefit: Good for upper body strength and shoulder and spinal stability -- two of the most important factors for insuring proper swing plane control during the entire swing.

2) For more upper body strength, perform a Lat Press Down using your club. Get in address position on one leg. Drop 10 degrees more with a straight back. Extend out your opposite arm with your club on the floor for support. Press down on the club with your arm to raise your body to an erect position. Work up to 20 times with each arm while standing on the opposite leg. Golf benefit: This strengthens your lats which are the main upper body muscles that bring your arm around for your swing. The single leg address position stance builds spinal stability and strengthens the major muscles of your ankle, knees and hips.

3) For wrist strength, hold your club in one hand while standing on the opposite leg. Rotate your wrist to move your club left and right and back and forth like you are painting with it. Repeat 20 times each direction. Golf benefit: The stance works your spinal stability and ankles, knees and hips like the previous exercise. The wrist movements strengthen your wrists for better club face control at impact. It also strengthens your wrists in the event you hit a hard object (the ground, rock, root, etc.)

4) Finally, perform a Hip Flexor Stretch. Tight hip flexors are the root cause of a number of muscle imbalances, swing faults and back pain issues. To stretch, place your right foot on the first step of any stairway. Place your left foot three stairs up. Hold onto the railings if you need help to balance, drop your pelvis toward the steps between your feet with your back straight up or even extend it backwards if you can. Switch feet and repeat on the other side. (You can also switch sides as you attempt to walk up the stairs to get a good strengthening workout for your legs.) Perform 3 times on each side, once every day.Always follow any back extension (bending backwards like in the hip flexor stretch) with a forward bend or flexion. Stand and roll down so that your palms are on the floor with your knees bent, much like you would bend over to tie your shoes while standing. Keeping your palms on the floor, try to straighten your legs. This will stretch your back and hamstrings. Golf benefit: Improves posture, reduces back pressure, allows abdominals to tighten, allows back and gluts (your buttocks) to strengthen and hamstrings to release. This also improves your setup, golf posture, back endurance, range of motion for your legs and hips during backswing and your ability to stay in the proper swing plane throughout your entire swing."
(Tips taken from Article By: Alan Smith)

OK Golf Girls ~ Go get fit!

Fun GOLF Tags ~ For Luggage, Golf Bags, Travel Bags

These are too cute ~ new GOLF tags for your Golf Bag, luggage, travel bags, gift bags!

This one to the left says "She Who Loves Golf" on the bottom and comes with a sturdy, flexi fastener!

* Check them out at OLLIE MCKAY'S Chic Boutique *

You will LOVE our amazing, new easy care, packable, crushable "Origami" shirts!

If you ever had one of the Popcorn/Bubble tops or shirts, you will LOVE our amazing, new easy care, packable, crushable "Origami" shirts! I bought one (in Tangerine) and got so many compliments! Everyone wanted to know where to get one, so. . . . . they are NOW available at

OLLIE MCKAY'S Chic Boutique
Take a peek ~ Click on Pics for Info!

Girls who LOVE to Shop and Golf

Come join in the fun as we Share Shopping & Golf Info on our new Lens at Squidoo!

GirlsShopandGolf
Girls love to Shop! And some of us also love to golf! So this will be an evolving lens about both.

www.olliemckays.com

Lessons in Life and Golf ~ An Amazing little boy!

Kyle Lograsso

(Click on Kyle's Pic)

This is an amazing little guy! A story to warm your heart (and you will also want his golf swing!) This is a video you can't miss!

We have some very Fun Golf Gifts for you Golf Gals!

See you at ~ www.olliemckays.com

Find a gentle and quiet spirit! Over the Hump day!

Good Afternoon ~ It's "over-the-hump" day, I believe! Well, BrainFart! (excuse my French) ~ I just found out that I created a Blog several years ago when I first started to create Ollie Mckay's! (I was then out "sick" for 2 years and have just now gotten my site redesigned and up and running!!) So forgive me if you have come across the old blog and wondered what was up - ha!

Just a thought to carry you thru the rest of the week - found this on FaithLifts.com and LOVE it:

"Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead , it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight." (1 Peter 3:3-4 NIV)

Welcome! Style Is. . . Whatever you want it to be!

Welcome to OLLIE MCKAY'S Chic Boutique! Accessories with Attitude ~ Gifts with Personality ~ Style Is. . . Whatever you want it to be! Come and checkout our fun new merchandise on our new redesigned site.

Remember the MagicScarf/Popcorn shirts? We have the new Origami shirts! Three Quarter Sleeve or Short Sleeve in BEAUTIFUL colors. These shirts crush up into a small size and can fit small to XL with ease - truly!

www.olliemckays.com