General BOSU® Balance Training
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BOSU® Elevation Training
Elevation training with progressive variations in height enhances the ability to create and deliver programming for a variety of applications, and brings a new training format to health club, athletic conditioning, and rehabilitation settings. BOSU® Elevation Training, facilitated by the new STAX risers helps fitness professionals and coaches improve training outcomes for all client levels, and creates a new category of drills and training skills which can challenge anyone on the fitness continuum from world class athletes to deconditioned older adults Click here to READ MORE.
Move Better, Live Better: Why Balance is an Essential Part of Your Exercise Program by Douglas Brooks, M.S.
According to the 2008 IDEA Fitness Programs & Equipment Survey, 69% of respondents offer circuit classes while 73% offer core conditioning classes. To benefit from the two activities in a single exercise session, I have put together a circuit-training program that focuses on the core. This full-body workout, designed to use the BOSU® Balance Trainer (BT) and the BOSU® Ballast® Ball (BB), is easy to implement and can be adapted to all fitness levels. Click here to READ MORE.
Training the Brain - Balance Tools of Choice by Brian Justin, MHK, CSCS and Gregory Anderson, Ph.D.
There are many biomotor abilities crucial to sport performance and everyday activities. However, one of the most important is balance. Balance is the maintenance of equilibrium, or the ability to maintain the center of gravity (COG) over one's base of support (BOS). It is a component of all movement whether strength, speed, skill, or flexibility dominate that movement. Click here to READ MORE. New School Sitting: Exercise Balls in Classrooms and Offices by Douglas Brooks, M.S.
What do schools, corporate workplaces and home offices all have in common? Each is experimenting with jettisoning an "old-school" concept to replace traditional chairs with exercise balls. Generically known as a stability ball, these pieces of exercise equipment have been popular in homes and clubs for more than two decades. It has been one of the most widely used pieces of exercise equipment by personal trainers throughout the world. A growing number of teachers and office workers are beginning to explore the ball's utility and its positive effects in offices and schools across the nation. Some have found the BOSU® Ballast® Ball to work particularly well, since it does not roll away. Click here to READ MORE |
