Female: Hello I am Jennifer Didonato. Welcome to Brides Made Fit video blog. Today’s topic, on my mind and it should be on yours is balance and stability. Balance and stability is something a lot of people think over during their health and fitness regimen. You have cardio, you have strength, you have nutrition but people are starting to get into discovering what balance and stability training is all about.
Now, obviously, we all know about this whole core craze that has been going on for the past decade and we have classes and we have DVDs and all these yoga and Pilates things going on and the reason why it is important is because the health and fitness professionals have realized that balance is very important in functioning through your entire workout along with your entire day. You could be picking up a heavy bag of groceries or your five-year-old kid who wants you to hold him. It all depends on how your body is functioning in balance to prevent injuries.
Now, what incorporates balance and stability is strength in your core. Your core does not just mean your abdominals. It includes your abdominal muscles but also your transverse abdominals, your obliques, along with your lower back and the muscles going up and down the spine and also your glutes as well so incorporate this whole area right here that keeps everything in place and balanced so you are not falling over and making sure that your posture is in alignment. Now, it is important because if you are exercising, you want to make sure that you are keeping your balance and stability so you are no injuring yourself.
Now, if you are not incorporating this into your workout, one thing you can start doing everyday is just standing on one leg. I know it sounds easy but a lot of people cannot do this. So just standing on one leg, you want to maybe do it for about 10 seconds and then switch to the other leg and you can just do this every morning when you get out of bed before you go to work just to practice with your core strength and stability. Also, you can even incorporate doing this with your workout doing shoulder presses, shoulder raises or even bicep curls I can demonstrate right now.
So what I want you to do is just stand on one leg and keep your back straight and your chest up and your chin should be about parallel to the floor looking forward and doing some bicep curls. What I am doing right now is I am keeping my abdominals tight. If they were not tight, I would be hunching over and trying to pull the weights up with my torso but what I want to do is create this fulcrum with my core. So everything is staying tight. Now, what you can do is when you get the hang of that, you can upgrade to using something like a bosu, you get them for about $100, if you pay any more for it then you are just overpaying.
But you can start by standing on here with both feet. It is kind of a like a dome, it is filled with air. So it is getting you a little bit of challenge for your balance and stability and you can do your exercise that way and once you get good at this, then you can try it with one leg, let us hope, I do not fall right now. Here we go. Good. This is also working your legs and your abdominals. This is really challenging your core here. So just trying some of these simple moves starting with just standing on one leg, and that will definitely help improve your balance and stability and also improve your strength training program and get you great results.
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