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*grins* My legs have always been my strongest feature, far outstripping the rest of me. Whenever I look at various "lifting standards" online, my upper body is typically in the "intermediate" category, where my legs are always either "advanced" or "elite".

(Except deadlift, where I'm stuck at intermediate. Or was, before I swapped deadlifts for rack pulls.)

It's one of the reasons I always enjoy leg day, it's such an ego boost to have warmup sets far heavier than my 1RM on upper body days. (I refuse to allow my thoughts to go the other direction, that my upper body is so pathetic I can't even lift warmup weights, lol.)

nossmf wrote: »

Nice, @springlering62! I also love the leg press machine, and used to love loading up the sled. However, it got to the point of being ridiculous how many plates I was using, so I shifted to doing one-leg versions instead, figuring with half the legs I'd just use half the plates. Yeah, not so much. I was doing 12 large plates per side for sets of 10-15 with both legs, but now I'm doing 4 plates per side for sets of 5 with a single leg. Trifle humbling the first time, but I've grown to accept it and embrace it. Probably could go heavier, but I've been really working on increasing my range of motion, which I'm not satisfied with yet. Something about doing it one-legged causes my leg to lock up at a higher point than when I work in pairs.

Oh wauw! 12 plates per side for that many reps...
I can do 3 plates per side for 3x10 on single leg, but no way i come near 12 plates per side.
My total is 14 plates in total for 3x12 and 16 plates total for 4 reps.

I love training my legs though, i do not like training upper body, and never really cared for it, untill i started doing the Big 3 of powerlifting.
I neglected them for years, and it's actually not very benificial for bowling to have great upper body strenght, since it's all about having a relaxed swing, and not use the muscles so much

Despite getting terrible sleep last night (ok, decent sleep, just way less than enough!) I was up and rarin' to hit the gym. Need to reassess whether to keep incline bench press in my upper-body hypertrophy day, as it hasn't felt quite right to my shoulder the last couple sessions. Not painful, just "not right," if you know what I mean. Don't know if the problem is the angle forced on me by the gym's incline station, which I can lower by using the squat rack and an adjustable bench, or if I need to swap the BB for DB's. I don't have this problem with flat bench.

My knee's been feeling fine all week so far, so here's hoping I'll be able to do my normal leg routine tomorrow. Though if I want to pump up the weight, I'd better make sure to get more sleep tonight!

Minion_training_program wrote: »

I neglected them for years, and it's actually not very benificial for bowling to have great upper body strenght, since it's all about having a relaxed swing, and not use the muscles so much

*Ninja Turtle Michaelangelo's voice* Ah, a fellow BOWLER, huh? *starts swinging nunchuks, I mean bowling ball*

Man, I need to get back into bowling again. Started bowling age 8, was borderline good enough to think about going pro by the time I graduated, opted to go to university instead. Played in multiple leagues through college and early military career with my wife, until we moved to a new assignment in 2005.

Within a week of moving here, our garage was broken into. Thieves stole DVD's from my wife's truck, and my bowling ball bag from my car. I mean, really? What possesses a thief to grab an enormous bag weighing over 50 pounds (3 balls, shoes, etc), filled with equipment which is highly personalized and utterly useless to either sell or have anybody else use? True, it cost me over $1k to collect it all, but they didn't know that!

Due to having a mortgage and ever-growing family, we couldn't afford to replace the stuff, and I refuse to do league using "house" equipment. (Grudgingly consented to a couple family bowling nights over the years, shocking how badly I scored between lack of practice plus using unfamiliar equipment.)

Some day I'd love to rejoin a league with my wife, it was a great weekly date night out of the house. At the time I stopped, my average was well over 200, with multiple 279 games (always left a ten-pin in the 9th, dang it).

Please tell me you're a traditional bowler with all three fingers in holes, not one of these modern fingerless bowlers I've seen on television lately. Makes me want to throw something at the TV, every time I see them contort through a "swing".

nossmf wrote: »

Minion_training_program wrote: »

I neglected them for years, and it's actually not very benificial for bowling to have great upper body strenght, since it's all about having a relaxed swing, and not use the muscles so much

*Ninja Turtle Michaelangelo's voice* Ah, a fellow BOWLER, huh? *starts swinging nunchuks, I mean bowling ball*

Man, I need to get back into bowling again. Started bowling age 8, was borderline good enough to think about going pro by the time I graduated, opted to go to university instead. Played in multiple leagues through college and early military career with my wife, until we moved to a new assignment in 2005.

Within a week of moving here, our garage was broken into. Thieves stole DVD's from my wife's truck, and my bowling ball bag from my car. I mean, really? What possesses a thief to grab an enormous bag weighing over 50 pounds (3 balls, shoes, etc), filled with equipment which is highly personalized and utterly useless to either sell or have anybody else use? True, it cost me over $1k to collect it all, but they didn't know that!

Due to having a mortgage and ever-growing family, we couldn't afford to replace the stuff, and I refuse to do league using "house" equipment. (Grudgingly consented to a couple family bowling nights over the years, shocking how badly I scored between lack of practice plus using unfamiliar equipment.)

Some day I'd love to rejoin a league with my wife, it was a great weekly date night out of the house. At the time I stopped, my average was well over 200, with multiple 279 games (always left a ten-pin in the 9th, dang it).

Please tell me you're a traditional bowler with all three fingers in holes, not one of these modern fingerless bowlers I've seen on television lately. Makes me want to throw something at the TV, every time I see them contort through a "swing".

Yes on going bowling again Mike! Just do it. Sign up for a league, buy 2 balls, strike and plastic spareball, shoes and go for it man!
It's so much fun.

My high score after 25 years is still stuck at 299
Last year came close again a few times with 9 times a 279 and 1 280 game
And i did throw 18 strikes in a row 3 years ago, unfortunatly it was spread over 2 game, with 10 in game 1 and 8 in game 2...

My current average in house league is 193 (we are playing a sport pattern atm)
And my average in regional league is 190

Scored a 246 this week, after 2 bad games, but still averaged 203 scratch.

And yes, i am a traditional bowler with thumb and fingers, altough i have tried the 2handed style for 2 seasons (during covid period). But spares were hard, and that is actually my strong point. Last season i had a spare conversion rate (except splits) of 93%, and that was for over 300 games.

I mainly did the 2handed style, because i am also a certified ETBF level 2 coach/trainer. So wanted to know the basics of it.

In today's game, it does give high scores, and it's just a way of playing the current oil conditions, and i have to say, Jason Belmonte is a excellent bowler, very consistent, but i prefer the 1 hand with thumb.

Altough i am a low rev rate player (somewhere between 300-370) and would definatly like to have more revs and being able to snap at the bottem position, it's something i will probably never able to do, because of my Hyper mobility in my hand.

My idol to this day are still Walter Ray Williams (GOAT), Norm Duke, Pete Weber and Parker Bohn III

The last one i have met 2 times now during a clinic. First clinic was with Sean Rash, John van Hees and Jason Sterner as well (awesome guy that Jason) and last time, which was in 2023, just Parker Bohn with his son (who is a 2hander as well).
Learned a lot from him, and got complimented on my style and balance (lots of bowlers have poor foul line stance) and my accuracy for the 7 and 10 pin.
We played a low game together, and i beat him with a score of 32 against 39 of him

Hey all, new here and looking for some fitness chat and whatnot. I lift, run, ride(not so much recently), rock climb and yoga. I just started getting into swimming and hope to do a Tri this year.

I’m laughing to myself about your bowling tales.

We bowled for several weeks every year in HS PE. They turned us loose with no instruction whatsoever, except how to keep score. I bowled an 18 one day, 20’s most others. My best ever was a 57.

Imagonna duck now in case y'all start throwing bowling balls.

What was even better was square dancing month, where we had to (ew, shuffle, blush) hold hands with random male PE students.

Don’t ask me how they made their PE choices.

No wonder you lifted like a beast...you were wearing your bionic pants! (Make it look like your human legs have been replaced by robotic ones.)