Crafting Your Core: BowlFit Fitness Tip of the Week – BowlFit Tips

When you think about training your core, what comes to mind first? Most would answer simply: abdominal muscles, of course! While this surely is true, there are a lot of exercises that involve core training that aren’t just focused on abdominal muscles. Whether it’s dynamic movements or static holds, try incorporating these exercises for a well-rounded core strengthening program:

1. Kettle-bell swings
2. Front and side planks
3. Step ups with high knees (and desired weight)
4. Barbell rollouts (on knees or feet)
5. Lunges with twist
6. Squat and twist

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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.