Muscle Memory Changing it Part 2

 "" Changing muscle memory. Now what is muscle memory and why do I want to change it ? What  "muscle memory" is. (It is) the "subconscious action" that we consciously train our body to perform" from a youtube by a PBA Professional millionaire, the 24th in PBA  History.

To a blog writter , the reader stats can reveal a lot of interest in expectation of the reader. It can sometimes be rather discouraging as with today stats which showed no reader access to this blog posted yesterday., (found that yesterday twitter posting of this blog was with a link which was not accessable)  Google in making changes to Blogger has created a new and very long link reference which generated  to readers a   "ERROR 403 "Invalid Security Token". Corrected as you are now reading this.

In the previous blog writing I had mention the stats of Feb 12  which  shows how one reader with a large reading of 148 blogs from my pool of blogs; had made small and unreadable the visual stats of the regular daily readers. (See Stats Photo)

Feb 13 Stats of reader/views

In today's Stats this one reader had made me look deeper into what drew him to my blog and why spend time reading so many blogs.  Some of my blogs are rather long.

However this particular instance of Blog Stats gives some very interesting facts. First, to read 148 blogs, even to scan their titles, is very time committed as some of my blogs are very long. Also from  my stats i am  shown  that the search parameter was "Changing muscle memory in Bowling" and that the location of the reader was Denmark or Norway.

The balance of this blog is about Muscle Memory word for word of the video by "MonkeySee Video on Alley bowling  and instructions on how to Changing Muscle Memory.  In earlier blogs, I wrote about the Subconscious and Muscle Memory ( in  October 2016 Part 1) and here Part 2 and soon the final part 3.

This 2016 look at Muscle Memory is a long blog and I talked about many sports and how one must work at being in the Zone. I wrote about our use of Muscle Memory in Lawn Bowls but unlike the video below I didn't work on changing it but I place more important on the Subconscious mind and how an individual must let the Subconscious mind perform the Bowls Delivery.

Above,  I said the orgin  was Denmark as the residence of my blog visitor, because the dark area of the stats  map  )lower right) although it may show Greenland; we see that the whole of Greenland is not darken as the  source of traffic Therefore. I later discovered that the shaded  dark area to the right of Greenland appear to belong to Norway and is a small area of the coast of Greenlandon some maps is listed as " Jan Mayen Norway" Since my stats show two spots of reader usage it could be the reader send his friend to my blog. Or maybe I will discover that Norway has a second land area on the west of Greenland.

First thing of important is as always I am happy that my blog reaches out to new readers. Here, my blog has brought a Alley bowler to read what I wrote about the subconscious mind and Muscle Memory. In an earlier comment a reader wrote  '
Do you mind if I quote a few of your articles as long as I provide credit and sources back to your site. My website is in the exact same niche as yours and my visitors would really benefit from some of the information you provide. In some of the blogs we find reference is  to Tiger Wood in Golf  In Seeing the Shot, Visualization and I attempt to suggest how to relax and let your subconscious mind do the work.

The balance of this blog is the text of the video "How to change Muscle Memory"  on Youtube where Randy Petterson explains how Alley Bowlers who  want to improve their scores need to work to change their Muscle memory which the subconscious then uses to do the proper actions afterward 

Randy Pedersen

" Changing muscle Memory. Now what is Muscle Memory and why do I want to change it ? What "Muscle memory is (it is) the "subconscious action" that we consciously train our body to perform."

What raison may I want to change it?  Maybe my bowling scores are too low because I am throwing (my ball)  all over the alley."

"There is only one way to change muscle memory and that is by reprogramming the subconscious mind, This is done by making a physical change on a conscious level" .

To understand how hard it is to change muscle memory Randy then set out an exercise for the bowler to apply.

"And then by practising for 21 straight days.  3 to 5 games a day; before this conscious motion because the subconscious action." 

"This is the only way to change muscle memory/" 

Than Randy goes on to ask the student  by " to reinforce this (change) make sure that you have a friend that could videotape you or maybe you have a goals coach that could work with you throughout this process,"

 Taking a minute to know what he means by process. Maybe the alley bowler is doing a slide which turns his body and he must correct that bad movement.  For the lawn Bowler it would be thing of balance during a delivery where in catching your balance your body is leaning or throwing into the of-ballance side of your delivery.

Who is Randy Pederson ? Wijidepia  defined this Sportscaster as  " a bowler, who won 13 PBA titles, with his last coming at age 40 in the 2002 Pepsi Open. That title pushed him over the $1 million career earnings mark, making him the 24th millionaire in PBA history"

Randy Closes his video with " You want to get rid of the low scores. You want to throw more strikes. You want to have more fun in this great game; than change that muscle memory"

I have included this stats study, in my blog because all the sports have something in common. The individual who spend hours searching the net for something on his sport has ended up on my blog about subconscious development in Lawn Bowls. Also we see that all great athletic in some way uses their muscle memory and need to understand it and develops it.

New Blogs 2019

Many of my blogs have been on three  basic topics.

1- How a reader can improve their Bowls delivery and overall performance

Blog Stats of Feb 9th 2019

2. The need for bowler participation in the local club and the development of their Sport and

3. The various aspects of lawn bowls which is of danger to our sport as it  charges and destroys our sport.

Although getting on in age (74) I will attempt to do these next few months on various topics such as  Coaching and maybe link some of the blogs here from previous years together.

From the Blog Stats (Photo left) I see there has been  a good blog readership although I have not done any new blogs for over 6 to 8 months. Most of these stats are from new readers although sometimes previous readers return to re-visit a blog they liked.

 Looking at the stats of the blogs and what it show, after more than 6 months without any new blogs.. There has always been an "Readership  average " of 30 blogs/read per day. As per the world map, these readers comes from several countries,  However,  from the stats one can see that there are some interesting changes in Lawn Bowls development. Because my new readers are non-English countries. it means that  there new readers are  from Brazil, India and Spain The darkness of the Green (on the map) indicates the volume of reader from that country over the last week.(Of course Australia has always been a strong as has been Canada and USA)

As I write this in February 2019, the Northern Hemisphere Lawn Bowls is slow as we are waiting for spring. Some countries like England, USA have indoor bowls but most Lawn Bowls Clubs are now covered with snow and ice.. However, Australia and South Africa are now in their summer season and lawn bowls very active.

The topic I will tackle this month ( February 2019) will be aspects of Club coaching and why you the reader should get involved in your local Club. Not to suggest that you taking up a  coaching position but  all club members should become a participant in one of the many Club activities and  committees.

One of these committees is the Greens Committee which need volunteers to prepare

Damage to Green caused by footwear

 the greens for club games.
 Often these volunteers become involved in the annual greens maintenance and closure. In the blog "Greens Committee 1" we see suggestions of what members can do to help the club save money on Greens Maintenance.

 Interesting part of this blog is photos of green damage (photo right) done by squirrels who got a smell of food (apples nuts) from footwear which a member had wore throughout the day and then came and wore the same footwear onto the green.

 Every serious Lawn Bowler should have a special set of footwear which is only use on the green and stored in the clubhouse locker.

Although my blogs are sometime rather long, I try to cover all the various aspects of Lawn Bowls. In the blog "Greens Committee 2) I show photos of Clubs which have been closed and lost their greens to parking lots or other sports.  All clubs are in danger of such action unless they are privately owned.

With club membership being evaluated and the cost of land, sometimes we find the club being closed and the land being developed into a housing complex and the Lawn Bowls green turned into a great community Garden.

Club became housing and Garden

Club lost and became Parking Lot

An Article in Friday (Feb 8th) Scottish NewsPaper "The Guardian"  has a similar story of how a club must change to survive.

Scottish Club talks about how need to change exists