Having Poor Posture Can Lead to Imbalances and Especially Weaken Muscles and Joints – BowlFit Tips

One thing that coincides very well with postural practice is stretching and flexibility.

If you’re constantly perform actions in ways that cause extra stress or resistance to your muscles and joints, you may cause those muscles to become “tighter” because they’re adapting to a stance or motion that isn’t regular for it’s normal range of motion. Consider this: If your back is sore from slouching in your chair, then it probably hurts to straighten out. Why? Because your muscles have adapted to that stance, so moving in a direction that opposes it stretches out the muscles and can be uncomfortable.

Here’s one really fundamental way to improve your posture: stretch! Improving flexibility is often overlooked, but it can get your muscles moving in their appropriate ranges of motion more readily. The more stretch you can reach, the easier it is for your muscles to move in the direction they were designed to.

Some everyday and even pre-competition stretches include:

Hip flexor

shoulder capsule (cross body)

triceps

quadriceps

hamstrings

Standing Calf Stretch (against wall)

Some pictures have been provided for your convenience.

Remember, reaching a little further each day will start to add up and benefit you in ways you may not have believed possible!

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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.