Balance and Your Fitness Routine


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Balance is important for just about everything we do. Walking, running, playing basketball, or just putting away the groceries, you're constantly losing and regaining your balance as you change positions. Good balance helps you move more efficiently and lowers your risk of injury. Balance also plays an important role in preventing falls.

Using balance-training tools, including wobble boards and balance boards, challenges your balancing system by changing the exercising surface. They also help you develop muscles critical to balance: hip, knee, ankle, and core abdominal and back muscles.

You can practice specific balance-training exercises with or without equipment. For example, stand on one leg with the other raised in front and bent at a 90 degree angle for 30 seconds. Repeat on the other side. Build up to 90 seconds at a time on each leg. Once you've mastered that , rise up on the toes of the supporting leg while performing the exercise.

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