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Split Squat Basics

Improving lower-body strength increases your ball speed while developing better balance and stability out on the lanes. Split squats will increase your mobility, which is good for everyday challenges while benefiting your bowling game significantly. One unique benefit of utilizing split squats is that they add muscle mass one leg at a time. Everyone has…

Wall Squat With A Physioball

The movement required to do a squat is something you incorporate in your day-to-day activities. From picking up something off of the floor to filling your vehicle’s tires with air, proper form and muscle strength makes these small tasks simple. If you are injured, small tasks like these may cause you concern and squats will…

Modified Squat With a Balance Aid

Every bowler needs balance and stability on the approach and squats are an excellent exercise for bowlers to achieve it. On the way down your knees and hips flex, and on the way up your knees and hips extend. Be it age or injury, squats can be too difficult for some to accomplish. In this…

Modified Squat

Modified Squat Squats are a bowler’s best friend. On the way down, your knees and hips flex; on the way up, your knees and hips extend. Squats strengthen your lower body, focusing on your glutes and quads. The rewards from this exercise will make your footwork and finish position better by increasing balance and stability…

Bodyweight Exercises

Bowling is a physically demanding sport. Lower-body strength affects ball speed, balance, and stability. If any of these three items are missing, it will be difficult to repeat good shots. In this premium video, Leah Zahner, Certified Personal Trainer (NASM), demonstrates body weight exercises that focus on the lower body. Squat Start with your feet…

Leg Over Box Step Exercise

Core stability and hip mobility contribute to better balance. In order to hit your target consistently in bowling, balance and stability are a requirement. Box steps are multifunctional exercise aides. They are sold individually and in sets that vary in height and width. Jumping on box steps is primarily how they are used, but they…

Bowling Warmup and Cooldown

In bowling, being ready to compete when it counts will add pins to your score and can be the difference between winning and losing. A proper warmup enhances your practice time, giving you the ability to evaluate the lane condition and assess how you will attack the pattern you are competing on. A proper cooldown…

Completing a Barbell Lunge

The barbell lunge exercise is a great way to improve your ability to maintain posture throughout your bowling approach and add strength and balance to the finish position. A barbell lunge increases the difficulty of the lunge, so you can get more out of it. When you add the barbell to a lunge, it allows…

How To Angle Your Shoulders When Throwing a Bowling Ball

What is shoulder angle/rotation and why do you need to know how it works to be a successful bowler? Coach Erik Vermilyea with Track defines shoulder/angle rotation as simply the angle of your shoulders as you’re throwing the bowling ball down lane. Sometimes your shoulders are square to the lane and sometimes they are open…

Body Positioning for Correct Launch Angles

Lining up your shot so that the bowling ball travels down the lane on your intended path, begins in the stance on the approach. This is known as pre-setting your angles. Angling your shoulders, hips and feet in the stance towards your target is a necessary fundamental all bowlers need to know to achieve consistency…