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Bowling drills at home for 15 year olds
A 15 year old can practice aim, approach and focus at home with 22 bowling drills picked for the age. Keep a session to about 50 minutes, up to 5 days a week, with rest days between. Why: Organized sport should total no more hours a week than the child's age in years, with two rest days a week (NATA youth sport specialization recommendations).
A parent's page for a 15 year old: the drills that work at home, one session to follow, what changes this year and how much is healthy. Free, no account.
By Coach Evan Waechtler Youth coach (U11, Cache Valley, Utah) and founder of SSTracker Updated November 5, 2026
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At a glance
- At 15
- 22 bowling drills the app opens for a 15 year old work at home, across 6 skills.
- How long
- One home session of about 50 minutes; SSTracker never plans more than 75 minutes for a 15 year old.
- How often
- At most 5 training days a week, with rest days between. Organized sport in all: no more hours a week than the child's age (NATA), so at most 15 hours for a 15 year old, with two rest days a week.
- What you need
- Most used: line or tape (4 of the 22 drills), tape (4), lane (3), paper (2), pen (2), plastic bottles (2), soft ball (2), bowling balls (1). 1 drill needs nothing but space. 1 is for two, and a parent can be the partner.
- Safe at home
- One child and one parent in a room, garage or yard. Never tackling, contact, diving or head-first falls, no stunts or loaded lifting, and nothing that needs a coach, rink, pool or court. Stop when anything hurts.
22 at-home drills
Bowling drills for 15 year olds to do at home
Every drill below is one the app opens for a 15 year old and one that works at home: a room, garage or yard, one parent as the partner, no venue. Each drill's page has the steps, a diagram where the setup can be drawn, three ways to make it a game and a log to print.
aim
Aim
approach
Approach
focus
Focus
spares
Spares
lane reading
Lane Reading
A 42-minute session
A home bowling session for a 15 year old
A warm-up, 3 drills and a cool-down, 42 minutes in all. Do it up to 5 days a week, with rest days between.
- 1Bowling Warm-Up, Ages 14 and UpA 12-minute moving warm-up for bowling players 14 and up: moving stretches, strength, single-leg control, cuts and build-up runs, then bowling moves at practice speed.12 min
- 2Balanced Slide HoldLow and still at the line.10 min
- 3Pendulum Swing With a TowelLet gravity swing it.6 min
- 4Count the BoardsCount from your side.6 min
- 5Bowling Cool-Down Stretches, Ages 14 and UpA 8-minute cool-down for bowling players 14 and up after training: stretches for the legs, hips, wrists and sides, each held 20 to 30 seconds, never to pain.8 min
At 15
What changes in bowling training at 15
From 15, a home session can run to 75 minutes and the plan can have 5 training days a week, up from 60 minutes and 5 days at 14.
The app opens the same 22 at-home drills at 15 as at 14; the ones below are a different selection from that list.
Organized sport in all: no more hours a week than the child's age (NATA), so at most 15 hours for a 15 year old, with two rest days a week.
The week
Fitting bowling into a week at 15
At 15 the limit is 15 hours of organized sport a week. If you count home sessions against it to be safe, 5 sessions of 50 minutes is 4.17 hours, which leaves 10.83 for team practice and games. Even 5 days at the app's longest, 75 minutes, is 6.25 hours.
The research behind it
Ages 13 to 15 are the "specializing years", after the sampling years of 6 to 12.
Côté and Vierimaa 2014Organized sport should total no more hours a week than the child's age in years, with two rest days a week.
NATA youth sport specialization recommendations
Questions and answers
What bowling drills can a 15 year old do at home?
22 drills the app opens at 15 work at home. A few to start with: Bottle Pin Aim at Home, Count the Boards and Name That Arrow. One child and one parent in a room, garage or yard. Never tackling, contact, diving or head-first falls, no stunts or loaded lifting, and nothing that needs a coach, rink, pool or court. Stop when anything hurts.
How long should a 15 year old practice bowling at home?
One home session of about 50 minutes; SSTracker never plans more than 75 minutes for a 15 year old. At most 5 training days a week, with rest days between. Organized sport in all: no more hours a week than the child's age (NATA), so at most 15 hours for a 15 year old, with two rest days a week.
What do you need to practice bowling at home at 15?
Most used: line or tape (4 of the 22 drills), tape (4), lane (3), paper (2), pen (2), plastic bottles (2), soft ball (2), bowling balls (1). 1 drill needs nothing but space. 1 is for two, and a parent can be the partner.
What changes in bowling training at 15?
From 15, a home session can run to 75 minutes and the plan can have 5 training days a week, up from 60 minutes and 5 days at 14. The app opens the same 22 at-home drills at 15 as at 14; the ones below are a different selection from that list.