Why Play Bowls?

BOWLS – THE GENERATION GAME

Bowls truly is the “sport for all”. It can be played by all ages, abilities and sexes – making it the perfect sport for all members of your family to enjoy together. Like all sports, the object of bowls is essentially simple, but to be able to play consistently well demands determination, concentration and practice. Bowls is a sport for life – just try it! It has been medically proven that bowls improves your general health and helps to strengthen the immune system. Bowls is not only a sport, you can also have a varied and active social life at your local club. It is the ideal sport for meeting new people, socialising, and meeting new challenges head-on.

BOWLS – THE SOCIAL BENEFITS

Make new friends.
Don’t become isolated.
lf you have lost a loved one, joining a bowls club can help you to enjoy life once again.
FEEL SAFE
People feel safe in familiar surroundings and company.
Using bowls as a life-line, great friendships can be formed.
COMMUNITY SPIRIT.
People of all ages can enjoy bowls and lead a healthier lifestyle.

BOWLS – KEEPING YOU HEALTHY

Bowls gives your muscles and joints good exercise and keeps the tendons and ligaments you use limber.
Due to the extensive number of muscles you use during the approach, bowls provides a good full-body work-out, while the social aspect boosts psychological and emotional health.
Bowls is primarily an anaerobic type of physical exercise similar to walking with free weights, because you are not giving your cardiovascular system a workout. The flexing and stretching in bowls works tendons, joints, ligaments and muscles in the arms and promotes weight loss.
The sport of bowls also involves elements of problem-solving skills which exercise your mind as you try to outwit your opponent, and helps improve co-ordination and concentration.
All of this means that, during an average game, you will:
. Bend 42 times.
. Use a total of 134 muscles.
. Walk approximately 1,260 metres.
· Swing your arm more than 40 times to deliver a bowl weighing more than three pounds.
. Burn roughly 240 calories an hour.

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