ways to help your bowling form at home

[snugbucco]

Explain how that is working on my form. I have been told to take a broom and grab each end with it behind my back and do squats on my left leg to help my posture and balance. Stretching will be best before workouts and bowling.

They found that stretching before a workout can lead to injuries. Best to do it afterwards.

[wdc1987]

stretching doesnt increase your chance of getting hurt. It doesnt prevent it either. Stretching before does use a small amount of energy but not enough for you to notice. Im sure there is hundreds of articles that say stretching is good for physical activities and there is hundreds saying it is bad. it also depends on what type of stretching you do Ballistic,Static or Passive/Isometric.

I have seen more people get hurt because they do nothing before the activity. i myself will do some kind of stretching before the activity and after.

[Hampe]

They found that stretching before a workout can lead to injuries.

Where did you hear that? There's a school of thought that says static stretching before an activity might reduce explosiveness, but I've never heard of it causing injury.

[floridanative772]

I cant believe that stretching before is bad. I personally have felt the benefits of when I do as opposed to when I don't. If your muscles are loose and warmed up there should be less chance of damage

[snugbucco]

Stretching before bowling or any light activity is kool . I was talking about if your about to lift heavy weight, I should of been more clear sorry... I hurt my shoulder blade about 2 years ago, my physical therapist told be about how warm up with active stretching and light weight and not to do deep stretches before lifting progressively heaver weight. Reason being after you stretched you increase your range of motion more chance of a joint problem or a stabilizer muscle get strained.. I also have read several article on bodybuilding.com ... but at the same time i've read articles form that site that contradicted everything I just said lol

But yea research is just research most the time with studies like this you don't know if its real or not, probably just a half truth just to make an article like most the fitness articles i read.

[bowl1820]

The pros and cons of stretching have been a debated for quite awhile.

Theres a thread about stretching posted by Motiv Girl about Warming up and the latest research into stretching.

http://www.bowlingboards.com/threads...hlight=stretch

this site has this also but with charts.
http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/warm...retching-42328

[billf]

Dynamic stretches before bowling. Static stretches after. Or so says the USBC. I say any kind of stretching is better then no stretching, especially as we age. Static stretches don't force blood into the area. Dynamic does. Therefor dynamic stretching is really more like a little warm up than actual "stretching".

I use to stretch, static, between sets. It wasn't too long before I realized that wasn't feeling the greatest. After usually felt the best until 48 hours later.

[striker12]

the thing i do most o the time and alot of pb bowlers do this is find a areqa in your house where u can practice your arm swing like your approach and swing and u have to do it on tile floor or wood cause carpet u can use your sliding foot unless u dont slid.

[Fatal]

Striker I do that as well. Thing i have trouble with the most is my slide knee.

[striker12]

the one thing that help me get my slide consistant i put a carpet down and put some tape infront of it and did my approach into that and if i ever slid over the tape its a foul but just having my toe on it is not cause the edge of the carpet is the foul line and i wanted to be atlast 1/2inch back from it and that is with out my bowling shoes on just in socks witch its hard to stop but if you recently cleaned the floor dont do it cause you will slide too much but helps cause if the bowling allie cleans the approach area then u will know what it feels like but if my bowling allie ever cleans the approach area i jsut slow right down on everything.