So joeoneida gave me some great tips and pointers on how to get my old lady to go from only being able to pull back 35 lb right now to havin her be able to pull 50+ in two months any workout tips you guys/girls have used or heard of? I got he doing heavy weight rubber bands, push ups, and lots of light weight reps on the butterfly machine. Any other tips?
Getting her to pull more weight?
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Shooting more often is definitely a must.
Working outs and exercise will help as well. You hear the saying like above that no exercise can help you draw more weight besides the act itself. That is untrue to an extent. That comes from ppl who are not familiar with archery equipment either struggling or not being able to draw a bow that someone else of smaller or comparable size can. I think it used to be a macho thing or something. haha. It will help her because she already knows which muscles to use to draw the bow. Ppl that are not familiar more often than now can not draw much weight because they try to pull with the wrong muscles and form. For example, Walk over to someone who has never held a bow and ask them to draw a 50# discovery and watch their face. lol
You may also have her work up to weight with a solocam bow, something is very smooth. This will help her ease into more weight instead of fighting with a steep draw curve.
Working outs and exercise will help as well. You hear the saying like above that no exercise can help you draw more weight besides the act itself. That is untrue to an extent. That comes from ppl who are not familiar with archery equipment either struggling or not being able to draw a bow that someone else of smaller or comparable size can. I think it used to be a macho thing or something. haha. It will help her because she already knows which muscles to use to draw the bow. Ppl that are not familiar more often than now can not draw much weight because they try to pull with the wrong muscles and form. For example, Walk over to someone who has never held a bow and ask them to draw a 50# discovery and watch their face. lol
You may also have her work up to weight with a solocam bow, something is very smooth. This will help her ease into more weight instead of fighting with a steep draw curve.
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Have her stand with the bow and bring it to full draw, let it back down but not all the way down only to about 1/3 to or 1/4 draw so there is still weight pulling against her and bring it back to full draw. I've been told doing ten of these consecutively is equivalent to taking about 100 shots. Gradually adjust the weight up and in no time she'll be pulling 50lb.
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If there is a indoor swimming pool close by swimming builds the same mucles that you use bowfishing. We have several girls in our youth leagues that are swimmers and they all can pull 45+ with no problem. Love the look on the boy's faces when them try pulling back the girls bows thinking it will be easy.
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Bhahahaahahhahaahah!!!! Well to be honest I'm still the same old me.. I'm just trying to disguise it incase there are any unhappily married women on BFC!
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Reverse butterfly. Face the machine and Pull arms back - kinda like drawing a bow back. Does wonders to upper back muscles.
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Good call. :tu:
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I starting pulling 30lbs and am now at 55. What worked for me was using the bow. I am fortunate that we have a shooting range in our yard that I was able to get out and practice daily. My only advice would be not to push the poundage on her if she's not ready. If you do that she'll get frustrated not being able to pull it, her form will get crappy and she could possibly injure herself. Good luck and if you're going on that shark hunt have fun!!
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Bent over row, row machine, but best is just have her shoot the bow. Have her shoot 20 times a night at turn the bow up quarter of a turn every day, take every 3rd or 4th day off or don't turn the bow up and cut the reps in half to give the muscles time to heal. This is how I worked my hunting bow up to 70lbs when I first got it
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I'm more interested in how you got your old lady to work out
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My dad bought me a 50lbs. recurve when i was young and in just over year i could pull back a 50+ compound no problem. A recurve works good because they go from 0lbs. to however far you can pull one back for the most part. there is also no sense of failure if you cant pull it all the way back because your goal is to pull it back as far as you feel comfortable with. plus when you practice you also work on perfecting technique and creating very similar anchor points which will make anybody more accurate when it comes to shooting without sights.
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My wife and I shoot at least 2 dozen arrows a night in the garage. Only 5 yards but practice is practice. I use the time to practice my fallow through and form. I don't tell my wife I turn her bow up but I do about a half turn every few days. She started at 40 and is up to about 52 and she wants to get to 60 because I told her that when she can pull back 60 I'll take her on a moose hunt
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Have here do pull ups and chin ups (it works the shoulder blades and arms) and inverted rowe. In my athletic program at school we take a hurdle for the rowes, and working out since deer season ended in January Ive gained 5+lbs in draw weight.
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anybody else think he was talking about a bow at first and not his actual old lady? lol
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