Balance and Stabilization Training Articles
Coordination & Movement Skill Development - The Key to Long-Term Athletic Success
by Brian Grasso, YCS, CMT
Brian provides extensive information on how to develop motor skills, coordination and balance in pre-adolescent and early adolescent athletes. Developing basic coordination through movement stimulus is a must, with the eventual goal of developing sport-specific coordination in the teenage years. Read more...
Introducing the BOSU 3D System
by Douglas Brooks
Coordination & Movement Skill Development - The Key to Long-Term Athletic Success by Brian Grasso, YCS, CMT
Brian provides extensive information on how to develop motor skills, coordination and balance in pre-adolescent and early adolescent athletes. Developing basic coordination through movement stimulus is a must, with the eventual goal of developing sport-specific coordination in the teenage years. Read more...
Using Foam Rollers
by Michael Boyle
Today, nearly every athletic training room and most strength and conditioning facilities contain an array of foam rollers of different lengths and consistencies. Michael explains why foam rollers have such prominence today and how to best utilize them. Read more...
Introducing the BOSU 3D Systemby Douglas Brooks
The BOSU 3D System features an adjustable balance bar and two resistance tubing attachment points integrated into the unit. It makes balance training accessible to everyone. Read more...
It's All About Balance
by Dr. Greg Rose
Dr. Rose discusses the three body systems that function properly together in top athletes so that muscles and joints make appropriate adjustments for proper balance. Read more...
Biomechanically Based Dynamic Balance and Strength Training
by Mary Repking, PT, CSCS
Conventional balance training often consists of numerous random exercises, increasing in perceived difficulty. Consider an approach based on the biomechanics of the movement of joints and mechanical advantage or disadvantage of the musculature rather than on general balance training of miscellaneous exercises. Read more...
Beyond Balance Training
by Anthony Carey, M.A., CSCS, CES
Training on unstable and/or labile surfaces is one of those divisive topics within the fitness and sports conditioning worlds. There seems to be a consensus to the benefits of training on unstable surfaces in the rehabilitation environment, but unfortunately, there is very often those that "do" and those that "don't" in the fitness and sports and conditioning worlds. Read more...
