Eagle Archery Academy offers ‘Fly Like an Eagle’ – an archery-specific strength training and corrective exercise program pertaining to relieve pain, prevent injury, and maximize the physical working parts of the Archer. This training system outlined by Dr. Natan Raghav. U involves shoulder, back, and core exercises focusing more on improving mobility, stability, stamina, strength, and control of the upper body. Our goal is to make your joints and tissues Injury-proof, strong, and well-functioning so that you can get the most out of your shooting and relish your archery journey.

‘Fly Like an Eagle’ is a training system that commences foundational to more complex, challenging work. This system is carried out in weekly progressions. A progression contains a set of 5 exercises that you will follow through the week.  The training videos will lead you through the exercises and provide coaching cues while you focus on correctly executing them. You will complete a progression 3 times before moving on to the next. This repetition will help to bring a change in the shoulder on a physiological level.

Provide yourself with opportunities to become proficient with each movement pattern, position and engagement before moving to a more complex, challenging motion.

The 5 Exercises each week:

A Core Exercise- building a stable core with control to create a solid foundation for your shoulder girdle.

A Shoulder Mobility Exercise- opening range of motion and creating flexibility in the shoulder to bring sufficient movement required for archery.

A Back Exercise- stabilizing a foundation for shoulders and improving the movement of arm to attain the musculature to be strong, stable, and controllable.

A Rotator Cuff Exercise- a crucial component for movement, strength, and stability in the ball and socket joint that needs to be equipped and prepared to handle the stresses and demands of shooting.

An Upper Body Strength or Stability Exercise- foundational strength and stability of the upper body and shoulders

3 Keys to Success:

Quality of the Exercise- focus strongly on the details of each exercise so you can attain perfect form and maximize the benefits of each exercise.

Consistency- for the best impact on your shoulders, your shoulders need consistent training. Ideally, this training will be completed 3-4 days a week. Large breaks and consecutive bouncing in and out of this training must be strictly avoided.

Intensity- this might seem different to everyone. The golden rule is, these exercises might be a bit challenging but not to the extent that it changes or compromises your form. Adjust the intensity by changing the resistance level of your band, the weight of your dumbbell, the amount of reps, or by taking more or less rest. You are in charge of adjusting the intensity.

Required Equipment:

Our ultimate goal is to help people become well-functioning, injury-proof archers. For which, this training system needs to be accessible to many people as possible. Therefore, we have designed this training system in such a way to utilize as little equipment as possible.

Your body weight

A set of light dumbbells (typically between 3-10 lbs.)

Bands of varying resistance (I recommend therabands)