A New Year, A New Lifestyle Routine – BowlFit Tips

With many New Years resolutions in full swing, it becomes a bit intimidating to stick to all of the promises you’ve made for yourself. We have established how important physical activity is, as well as some tips to maintain or tendencies to be aware of or avoid. One of the most important factors is creating a routine for yourself. Promises won’t be kept if they’re looked at as if they’re short term.

Here’s a few tips on how to get into a solid routine to improve your overall health and create an active lifestyle:

Set aside time every day or every few days for gym time or exercise. Most normal schedules either call for a morning or evening sweat session, but that’s not to say those are the only options. Grab your planner, pencil it in, and stick to it!
Get into a regular sleep schedule. Having your body set into a physiologic routine can set the foundation for creating a routine for many aspects of your life – especially active lifestyles!
Start small with sticky note goals. By either linking two behaviors by memory, or physically writing a small behavior change on a sticky note, you can start to overcome whatever might be holding you back from fully committing. For example, writing on a sticky note and placing it over your sink that says “after you finish cleaning your dinner dishes, put your gym shoes on.” Such small acts can really link behaviors and smoothly transition into making a lifestyle change

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About Heather –

Heather D’Errico MS, CSCS, CFSC, LMT

Heather began BowlFit in 2013 with the hope to provide awareness to bowlers about how crucial training off the lanes truly is. She has been an avid bowler her entire life competing as a collegiate bowler for Robert Morris University, assistant coaching at the University of Central Missouri, and now head coaches at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, NY.

She obtained a master’s degree in kinesiology with an emphasis on exercise science and interned with the head strength coach at UCM. She became a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) through NSCA shortly after graduation and began coaching athletes at Next Level Strength and Conditioning in Fairport, NY.

In October 2015 she received her certified functional strength coach certification and then went back to school in July 2016 for massage therapy. She is now a licensed massage therapist and runs a business called Restorative Bodywork in Rochester, NY that specializes in movement therapy and sports massage.

Heather has also been competing on the PWBA tour the last 3 seasons and continues to use her experiences as a competitive and professional bowler to create programs for bowlers. She enjoys the challenges of making programs specific to each bowler as every person needs to focus on different areas for their performance goals. With that said her training motto is “do no harm” and believes each program should most importantly make a bowler FEEL better and play with minimal injuries/pain.