Bowling
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Bowling
Bowling dates back all the way to 3200 BC. A British anthropologist from the 1930s named Sir Flinders Petrie discovered a collection of objects. These objects were found in a child’s grave in Egypt that appeared to be used for bowing. Bowling is also referred to as tenpins, the object of the game is rolling a heavy ball down a lane towards ten pins. The goal is to knock down more pins than your opponent. A wooden version of the modern bowling ball was made in 1862. Today balls are a plastic/polyester compound. Plastic balls are for throwing straight and making spares. While polyester/reactive balls are for throwing at a curve and making a strike. If you get a strike from the opposite side in which you threw your ball, it is known as a Brooklyn. So say you are right handed and you throw your reactive ball down the lane and it goes into the left pocket of the head pin and you get a strike that is a Brooklyn. According to The Bowling Foundation, more than 25 percent of Americans bowl each year, making it the nation's largest participation sport.
Bowling has many positive effects on the body. Constant movement while bowling helps speed up your metabolism and burn excess fat. Depending on your weight and amount of effort you put into the game, bowling can burn anywhere from 170 to 300 calories per game. You're exercising your legs while walking back and forth between the lane different tables, and working the rest of your body as you lift and swing the bowling ball down the lane. As you swing the bowling ball, the repeated flexing, bending, twisting and stretching tones your shoulders, arms, chest and leg muscles. Your muscle tone, strength, balance and joint flexibility are strengthened and improved after bowling several times. The act of gripping the ball helps strengthen your hands. Bowling helps lowers your risk of stroke, heart attacks, diabetes, increases bone density, improves circulation, lowers cholesterol levels and blood pressure, and helps...
Bowling dates back all the way to 3200 BC. A British anthropologist from the 1930s named Sir Flinders Petrie discovered a collection of objects. These objects were found in a child’s grave in Egypt that appeared to be used for bowing. Bowling is also referred to as tenpins, the object of the game is rolling a heavy ball down a lane towards ten pins. The goal is to knock down more pins than your opponent. A wooden version of the modern bowling ball was made in 1862. Today balls are a plastic/polyester compound. Plastic balls are for throwing straight and making spares. While polyester/reactive balls are for throwing at a curve and making a strike. If you get a strike from the opposite side in which you threw your ball, it is known as a Brooklyn. So say you are right handed and you throw your reactive ball down the lane and it goes into the left pocket of the head pin and you get a strike that is a Brooklyn. According to The Bowling Foundation, more than 25 percent of Americans bowl each year, making it the nation's largest participation sport.
Bowling has many positive effects on the body. Constant movement while bowling helps speed up your metabolism and burn excess fat. Depending on your weight and amount of effort you put into the game, bowling can burn anywhere from 170 to 300 calories per game. You're exercising your legs while walking back and forth between the lane different tables, and working the rest of your body as you lift and swing the bowling ball down the lane. As you swing the bowling ball, the repeated flexing, bending, twisting and stretching tones your shoulders, arms, chest and leg muscles. Your muscle tone, strength, balance and joint flexibility are strengthened and improved after bowling several times. The act of gripping the ball helps strengthen your hands. Bowling helps lowers your risk of stroke, heart attacks, diabetes, increases bone density, improves circulation, lowers cholesterol levels and blood pressure, and helps...