Balance & Mobility

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Even though balance might simply mean shifting your body with control one side to another, researchers have found that it requires dialing in and improving many different aspects of your body.

 

The list includes improving your:

  • Muscular Strength (the amount of force you can put out or the amount of weight you can lift)
  • Muscular Endurance (how many times you can move that weight without getting exhausted (very tired); might feel like fatigue in the muscle when holding a particular range of motion)
  • Proprioception (brain's understanding of where is my body in space?)
  • Mobility (Range of Motion, what angles can you move in passively, and is bigger always better?)
  • Stability (your ability to NOT move certain joints when another joint is moving, so other joints don't get hurt; a good example is bracing your spine to not get hurt while you are lifting something off the floor)
  • Agility (how well can you change directions?) Breaking ability (how to stop yourself from moving)
  • Vestibular adaptation (inner ear and brain connection...this is what I am informally calling "teeny tiny muscles")

 

We use this template as we approach improving our Balance & Mobility in our classes.

This page is a work-in-progress.

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