Improving your balance

Importance of Balance in Our Lives

Many of us indulge into physicalactivities daily, wanting to stay fit. This may involve running orjogging, riding a bicycle, doing push ups, climbing the stairs andmany other actions. Apart from being very good for our physicalfitness, these workout aspects have something else in common. Namely,they all require advanced use of our body's balance. We rarely thinkabout it, but our body's balance is keeping us on our two feet andprotects us from falling and injuring ourselves many times. There isnot a single physical exercise which does not require balance. Thus,you need to be capable of balancing your body right in order to getthe most out of your physical activities. Developed core muscles willprovide you with strength and posture, but, still, you need tocombine them with adequate balance in order to achieve all you needduring your workouts. Amazingly, all you need, in order to boost yourbalancing skills and workout at the same time is your own body. Thus,forget about gadgets and other items made for these purposes andconcentrate on some of the following exercises.

Exercises for Improving Balance

An important aspect of our balance issupport. Namely, our very body is the support for our balance. Wedeal with gravity this way. You notice that your balance is best whenyour legs, the centers of your support are widely spread. However,as you move them closer, you realize that your balance decreasesgradually, reaching its peak once your legs are close together.Bearing this in mind, practice boosting your balance by working outwith your legs close to each other. This way, you are bound to getmore concentrated on your balancing skills, therefore boosting them.

Once you have this covered andexperience no problems working out this way, move on to the nextlevel. Try to raise one of your legs while exercising. Initially, allyou need to do is lift your heel off the ground and workout this way.Later, once you start feeling more confident, you can raise theentire leg and concentrate your center of balance onto the remainingone. This will be hard, but very beneficial. Once you learn andmanage to work out this way, you will notice huge differences in yourbalance capabilities.

Finally, once you have mastered all thebalancing improvements mentioned above, it is time to take it onestep beyond. Namely, you can start with closing your eyes whileexercising. As you grow more accustomed to this, you can balance on asingle leg with your eyes closed as well. This is far from easy and in order to combine workout with it, you need to master it fully.Nevertheless, once you do master it, working out with open eyes willbe easier than ever and it would take an earthquake to make you loseyour amazing balance.