Improving Thoracic Mobility – BowlFit Tips

When thinking about training for a sport the immediate thought goes to weight training and conditioning. The most overlooked and pertinent component to a training program is actually mobility – the ability to move your joints throughout their full range of motion. Improving mobility throughout your body can help improve the capability of your muscles to produce more power and force due to their extensibility. On the other spectrum, poor mobility in joints increases the chances of developing injuries, especially chronic overuse injuries that stem from fibrous tissue build up and adhesion over time.

In this picture I am demonstration a thoracic t-spine rotation/stretch. By including this in your stretches daily you can improve the mobility and health of your spine. If you sit at a desk all day at work this may be particularly difficult at first but will improve with time and will most likely become one of your favorite stretches!

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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.