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What is Balance & Stability Training?

Balance training consists of strengthening core muscles (abdominals, back extensors, and hip muscles) to improve balance and coordination. Balance training involves doing exercises that strengthen the muscles that help keep you upright, including your legs and core. These kinds of exercises can improve stability and help prevent falls. Along those lines, balance and stability training probably take a back seat to general strength training for most of you. However, you could ultimately benefit by regularly practicing our balance training protocols.

Importance of Being Balanced

Though it might not cross your mind, you need good balance to do just about everything, including walking, getting out of a chair, and leaning over to tie your shoes. Strong muscles and being able to keep yourself steady make all the difference in those and many other things you do every day. These practices give you better ability to control your body position from head to toe by maintaining your center of gravity over your base of support.

Balance and stability training exercises can be intense, like some very challenging yoga poses. Others are as simple as standing on one leg for a few seconds. Or you can use equipment that forces your body to stabilize itself, like a Bosu half-circle stability ball or a balance board you use along with a video game.