Stefano Tripney (Movnat L3 certified trainer is making a number of excellent points about balance in his Instagram post below.
What I would add is that balance training is one of the fundamental physical skills that can be trained easily without risk and without specialized equipment. Balancing is a skill that is very amenable to training. Here’s a possible progression:
- walk on a line on the ground: find any line on the ground and walk alongside it. If you’re a beginner, this will be challenging enough and your exercise. If you’re more advanced: look out for line son the ground when walking around and try and balance on them while walking at a fast pace. I guarantee you you will be feeling your core muscles and all your stabilisators will also get trained. When walking is fine on the line, try to change direction with a pivot reverse technique.
- walk on a sidewalk ledge: easy to do, low risk and you get used to small height. Next, practice the pivot reverse.
- walk on a rail at ground level, then pivot reverse.
- same on elevated rail.
You can also incorporate balance into many static exercises, for example:
- planks while balancing on the back of a bench
- same with push-ups
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