Keeping Bowling Shoulders Healthy | Bowling This Month

Article Contents

• 1. Meet your shoulder
  • 1.1. Why strengthening your shoulders is important
• 2. Mobility drills
  • 2.1. Posterior capsule and lat mobilization
  • 2.2. Wall slides
  • 2.3. Soft tissue mobilization
• 3. Strength training exercises
  • 3.1. Recommendations regarding pushing and pulling
  • 3.2. Landmine press
  • 3.3. Face pulls, band pull-aparts, and lat pulldowns combination
  • 3.4. Dumbbell rows
  • 3.5. Push-ups
• 4. Final thoughts

Note: This article is only available to Bowling This Month subscribers.

In my last article, I covered some key mobility and strengthening exercises to keep the knee joint healthy. After many of our readers reported this as being very helpful, I decided to continue that theme by detailing some ways to keep the shoulders healthy.

There is limited research on the common injuries experienced by bowlers. However, Briana Zabierek worked to publish research during her master’s program regarding the injuries experienced by collegiate bowlers….