Well now that I have finally got my equipment squared away, time to focus on training. First my goal, that is simple, outshoot my son. He is darn good, has great fundamentals, and he has a good marksmanship background ( wonder how that happened?). Plus he has great physical conditioning. He has also been shooting archery for years. So the bar is pretty high.
Somethings I am doing to improve my game.
1. I bought a book " Precision Archery" and have been studying that, it was written by Olympic shooters. lots of great info.
2. I have been trying to strengthen my lower back, I found out real quick this is where it all starts with archery. Aching muscles told me that on day one of shooting. A visit to my local chiroquacker got me some good exercises to do, and I am doing them.
3. Warm ups. I got a surgical tubing and use it to warm up first, it is very helpful;I included a couple pics.
4. Shoot often, but keep sessions short. I am up to about 30 arrows before I call it quits, the last set of 5 or 6 is getting shaky, so rather then learn bad habits I quit for awhile.
So what do you guys do to train besides shoot? Anything?
Just trying to learn as much as I can,
thanks Rman
Somethings I am doing to improve my game.
1. I bought a book " Precision Archery" and have been studying that, it was written by Olympic shooters. lots of great info.
2. I have been trying to strengthen my lower back, I found out real quick this is where it all starts with archery. Aching muscles told me that on day one of shooting. A visit to my local chiroquacker got me some good exercises to do, and I am doing them.
3. Warm ups. I got a surgical tubing and use it to warm up first, it is very helpful;I included a couple pics.
4. Shoot often, but keep sessions short. I am up to about 30 arrows before I call it quits, the last set of 5 or 6 is getting shaky, so rather then learn bad habits I quit for awhile.
So what do you guys do to train besides shoot? Anything?
Just trying to learn as much as I can,
thanks Rman