Your Optimum Bowling Zone

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What is Your Optimum Bowling Zone?

Have you ever been bowling and suddenly realized that you were on a roll? It just seemed like you couldn't miss no matter what you did.

You felt perfectly warmed up, confident and relaxed. It was easy to bowl strike after strike and to pick up all those spares.

We've all had experiences like that. Without knowing how you did it, you were bowling at your best; in your optimum bowling 'zone'.

Yet, think about it. Your body already knows what that's like. You have that "zone" encoded in your neurology. All that's necessary is to re-access that 'optimum bowling zone' and cause it to trigger again and again each time you bowl.

Triggering the optimum performance zone is one of the most effective techniques now being used by peak performance coaches to enhance the performance of professional athletes.

Techniques for spending more time in 'The Zone', as it is often called, are also being used more and more by top salespeople and executives.

The most important thing to know about your optimum zone is how to enter it and, more importantly, how to stay in it.

The best method for entering your optimum zone when bowling is to condition it to trigger automatically. This is done with anchors and trigger phrases.

My Bowling CD is designed to do this for you automatically.

Practice

The essential element of all mastery is practice.

There are three essential factors that put any form of training and practice on a higher level.The important thing to realize here is that you are developing a sub-skill. It's the sub-skill of 'practice' itself.

1. Consistency - Increase frequency

The first key is to take your practice to a new level in both frequency and consistency. This means practicing more often and making that higher frequency your norm.

After years of training in Karate, I received my black belt. I knew that as a black belt, I would train a minimum of 3 times a week, teach 1 night a week, then go to black belt practice with Mr. Oshima, my sensei, every Sunday. That's 5 days a week.

That's the way a black belt trains. And yes, it's a lot!

Compared to karate practice, bowling practice is a piece of cake! It's hard to get your teeth knocked out while you're bowling! Only a serious clutz could do that!

I know it will take some doing to get yourself to practice more often - all the time. But that what it's about. Lance Armstrong used to get calls from around the world and the caller would almost always ask "So Lance, are you on the bike?" And his answer was nearly always . . . "why...gee...YES, I AM!" The guy was always on the bike!

Frequency means more practices, more often. It's that simple. This is about increasing your discipline and it involves setting up and then actually doing, consistently, a new training regimen more often.

World class body builders don't lift weights 3 times a week. The do a six-day-split routine, alternating main body parts.

Ok, you have the idea now. So . . . how often do YOU practice?

2. Depth

Increase concentration, intensity & focus

Depth means the quality of your practice itself. What do you actually do when you practice?
Do you "just bowl and work on a few things"? Then you practice like an armature. A world class athlete practices in a world class way! And let me tell you, there's no mistaking it whatsoever. In fact it's one of the marks of a champion in any sport or area of endeavor.

You can recognize a world class athlete just by watching them practice. Your goal is to raise your level of practice to this higher quality. It's a gradual process of course.

3. Rate of Improvement - Get better faster

The third key to putting your practice on a new level is to improve at a quicker rate. To actually get better faster is a skill in and of itself and constitutes one of the most important peak performance improvement strategies for athletes in any sport.

I teach this specific skill set, in fact, all three, in my coaching packages and in my Quantum Leap trainings in Las Vegas.

The model for the technique was Andre Aggassi, the famed tennis player. One public corporation hired me to teach it (The Getting Better Faster Pattern™) to their sales force with significant positive results.