How Can My Brain Help My Bowling Game?

bowlingball.com, Originally Posted: 6/21/2015; Updated: 5/12/2022

If you are asking how can my brain help my bowling game, then there are a couple of points to be made first related to your brain influencing your body motion.

Your brain signals your body when and how to move. In bowling, it is important to settle your thoughts on precisely what you would like to happen when you bowl and then allow your mind to signal your body movements accordingly.

Instruct your mind and, in turn, your mind instructs your physical bowling motion.

If you have trained your body through physical fitness routines and if you have practiced your bowling, your muscles will be tuned enough to accept and react to the signals or messages sent by your brain.

Muscles are trained and developed but they only react to commands from your brain.

Your brain has memory. Your brain initiates muscular action.

Armed with knowledge, it is key to successful bowling to learn as much as possible about your physical game, about lane oil patterns, about bowling ball technology, about drilling layouts, and about altering bowling ball surface texture to change your ball reaction as needed.

Input useful information into your mind and then expect good results if you have prepared properly.



Your brain can be trained at any age to learn new tasks.

This re-training is also known as the science of neuroplasticity and is a proven function of the brain.

We can teach “Old Dogs” new tricks if we are exposed to positive data and if we prepare our bodies to respond when called upon by our mind.

Don’t line up on the approach and simply wish for a good shot and a strike.

Instead, use your mind to trust your existing knowledge in making good bowling shots and in playing the lanes effectively.

If you are well practiced and trust your mind, your chances of achieving good results are improved.