Balance Tip Tuesday!

Today we are working on our ankle strength and balancing on our tip toes. Calf raises are a great exercise to train both strength and balance.

Let’s practice!

✅Stand with feet shoulder-width apart on a flat surface.
✅Raise your heels and stand on the balls of your feet. Try to hold here and balance for 1-3 seconds. ✅Raise up as high on your tip-toes as you can to fully contract the calf muscles.
✅ Lower yourself down slowly with control back down to a regular standing position.

✅Try to complete 2-3 sets of 10 repetitions.

With practice our balance can improve. This is true at any age young or old and also true for improved sports performance too.

Balance Tip Tuesday!

Balance involves three sensory systems: the vestibular system (motion), vision (sight), and proprioception (touch). Proprioceptive training helps improve balance, allowing your body to stand upright and move while maintaining control in various movements and environments.

In this video we challenge all three systems by standing on one foot and shifting our gaze while we balance.

Practice at home 🏡

✅ Practice standing on one foot and then the other first for 30 seconds each.

✅ Then add on the head movement. Stand on right foot. Then shift gaze and move head side to side 8x.

✅ Repeat the same movement balancing on your left foot.

✅ Repeat both sides if you have time and aren’t feeling dizzy (stop if it make you dizzy or nauseous).

With practice our balance can improve. This is true at any age young or old and also true for improved sports performance too.