With your exercise, you may concentrate on how certain regimens may improve your strength, assist you with losing weight, or even make you more flexible. Alternatively, maybe you just exercise to feel good as well as stay healthy—all are incredibly valid motivations for breaking a sweat. However, another huge benefit of exercise that you may not think about is how it improves your balance.
Balance is something which many of us take for granted however everyone is able to benefit from improving it. Balance training exercises are responsible for strengthening core muscles and improving stability. This makes you lighter on your feet.
Balance training can assist anyone no matter what age they are. Athletes find that improved balance can make them more powerful. Seniors use improved to prevent injuries from falls and maintain independence. And fitness lovers know that improved helps to improve workouts as well as everyday life. In fact, merely moving around efficiently in life necessitates healthy postural alignment and good balance.
Different Types Of Balance
Balance is classified under two headings: static and dynamic.
- Dynamic balance: This is the ability to move outside your body’s base of support while maintaining posture control.
- Static balance: This is the ability to maintain your body’s centre of mass within its base of support
Both types of balance are important and both may be improved with targeted exercises.
Tai Chi
Studies from across the globe show that tai chi, which is a gentle exercise that is often called “meditation in motion,” may help you to cut down on falls if you’re older as well as if you’re having balance issues. A skilled tai chi teacher will be able to show you the slow, precise movements which will assist you to not only find more stability, but boost your overall health and mood, as well.
One-Legged Balance
Start out with this beginner’s move and keep a stable chair or a wall within an arm’s reach. With your feet together, pick up one foot with your knee facing forward or – alternatively – to the side. Hold the position with your eyes open and then closed. Switch over feet and repeat for four reps on each of your feet. If any move feels wrong or precarious to you, stop and check with a personal trainer. Depending on your health as well as physical condition, some exercises may not be recommended.
Weight Shifts
Stand up tall and make sure that your feet are hip-distance apart. Lean slowly towards one leg until it’s bearing all of your weight. At the same time life your other leg off the ground. Hold for up to 30 seconds, then move to the other side.
In terms of good exercise equipment for balance training, one of the best tools to own is a BOSU (“Both Sides Up”). A BOSU is ultimately a half ball with a flat platform. The name comes from the fact that you are able to exercise on both the ball side as well as the flat side. A BOSU ball provides an unstable surface on which you are able to practise squats, lunges, jumps, planks, and hundreds of other different exercises. If you aren’t able to access to a BOSU ball, it is possible to create a similar effect by loosely rolling a yoga mat or towel to stand on. Any kind of unstable surface will be good.
Contact Trifocus Fitness Academy
If you want to learn more about exercises to improve your balance – as well as exercises to train your body overall – then you need to do our Personal Training Diploma. Read more about it here.
