FITNESS IS IT REALLY THAT IMPORTANT?

Last month Bow received a question for the Ask The Experts section which said this: "We are often told that overall fitness is crucial to archery, yet I have to say I look at a lot of elite archers and they are obviously not athletically very fit. Which is it?" We decided to let Lucy O'Sullivan, archer and fitness trainer, answer it more fully.

This is the age old question for archers, we are constantly told that we should be ‘fit’, and yet many get results at all kinds of apparent sizes. So what should we do?

I don’t think it is ever fair to say that someone is fit and someone else isn’t fit – as