Relax Your Bowling Muscles For Success

By: bowlingball.com, 4/3/16

If you wish to improve your ability to perform well when bowling in the pressures of competition, learn to relax your bowling muscles for success.

You may have excellent form and fundamentals but if you do not learn to relax your neck, shoulders, and arm muscles and maintain the relaxed state throughout your approach and release, you risk making poor shots.

When you relax your bowling shoulder, as example, you then can easily relax the muscles in your bowling arm and thereby control the precise amount of gripping pressure on your bowling ball throughout your swing and release.

One “Accuracy Killer’ in bowling is too much muscle tension.

A relaxed shoulder, arm, and neck can lead directly to a repeatable swing tempo and help you control your ball speed.

With your relaxed swing derived from avoiding excessive tension in your bowling shoulder, you must also maintain a consistent pace of footwork regardless if you typically walk slowly or quickly.

With regulated ball speed, a consistent swing and release motion, and with relaxed and smoothly paced steps, you will undoubtedly improve your accuracy and ball skid distance control.

All successful competitive bowlers rely on hitting the pocket repeatedly.

With good alignment and adjustment technique, it becomes fairly easy to reproduce good shots because you are establishing a reliable tempo in your swing and steps due to relaxed muscles and a relaxed mindset.



Trust your game and use your experience to your advantage regardless of how nervous you may feel during stiff competition.

Simply make an effort to remind yourself to relax your bowling shoulder, arm, neck, and leg muscles before beginning your approach.

Avoid aiming too long on the approach before stepping off; prolonged time holding a heavy bowling ball only serves to tense your muscles.