Preparing Your Body For Competitions: BowlFit Tips

There are many different preparation focuses, but we’re going to focus on how to adequately prepare yourself for that lengthy tournament you’re anxious to dominate at. Here’s some tips and guidelines that could help you:

Make yourself a promise to attend the gym or perform exercises a certain amount of days. Create a 21 day running challenge or squat challenge for yourself 3 weeks before competition starts so you’re exercising those key muscles and maintaining endurance for the grind.

Follow your workouts with stretches. Getting in tune for competition is great, but activating those muscles and getting them loose quicker will benefit you most when you’re looking to speed up your warm-up. The more you stretch, the looser you can make those muscles with time.

Demanding more from your body and mind when you’re pushing it in the gym can help train you for when you might hit lags in competition. Constantly building a frame of mind and work ethic are key for both training and competition.

Create a very basic routine. Practice your daily gym routine so you can get keen with repetition and self-talk. Getting comfortable routines can elicit the same “in the zone” feeling when you’re competing.

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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.