Olympic style archery requires you to learn correct technique and have the strength to do this consistently. Archery specific drills are great to learn technique and improve strength, especially for recurve. If you are unable to do the correct recurve form during drills, you won’t be able to do it when you do your archery training. Bow training exercises are hugely beneficial to improve your strength and capacity. When you do bow training you must always do the correct technique throughout every exercise.
Bow training is great to develop specific strength for archery. It also helps increase the intensity of training sessions and the total volume during a training phase. It also allows you to clarify your technique and learn a new skill more quickly. There are endless variations of exercises you can do. The key thing is to make sure you do them with correct technique. The risk of injury is very high if you do not maintain correct technique or do lots of bow training with poor technique. If you can not do bow training with your normal bow, do the exercises with a band or light bow first. You will still benefit hugely. Technique is key here.
Even if you are experienced, it can not be overstated how beneficial recurve drills can be to your archery. Practice your shot with a band or just mimic the movements with your hands. It can help you learn a new skill much more quickly or make your technique more certain in your mind.
Make sure you have a good basic level of strength by using our Archery Exercises library. Use these archery specific drills to accelerate your learning of correct recurve form. Then use bow training exercises to become stronger and increase your draw weight and technique consistency.