Bosu Balance Trainer for Difficult Standing Balance Exercises

Are you ready to graduate to more difficult balance exercises on the Bosu Balance Trainer? Grab your Bosu Ball and let’s journey together as you uncover more body window secrets regarding your body balance.

'What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.' ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first balance exercise on the Bosu Home Balance Trainer is of Alex, my stepson, doing a basic standing pose, but this time with his arms up over his head. This move alone is relatively hard. Keeping your spine straight and in neutral takes focus and real concentration on your balance. Find a point to gaze at and firmly ground your feet into the Bosu ball, by concentrating on sending energy down through your feet as you raise your arms over your head.

Then, he decided, without prompting, to take it into a side bend. First he did it to the right. Not bad. Then, he really found his mojo when he took it to the left. Look at his extension – beautiful! Look at the legs together, and the hips tilted to the side! Amazing! I tried this and I was totally unable to do this balance exercise. It is really difficult!

Remember that balance training is about using your right brain. It is the right brain that processes the special perceptions and body awareness required to balance. So in the next balance exercise ask your feeling brain to help you as you focus on your body-mind balance.

Try the modified Dancer’s Pose. Here is Alex and I trying it. I could only do a vertical pose. Alex was able to go a little farther. If you are able to do this balance exercise on your Bosu Balance Trainer and go even deeper into the full Dancer’s Pose, please send me a picture through the form below and share your prowess with everyone! It is really hard!

The next centering standing balance exercise we will try is turning the Bosu Balance Trainer into a wobble board. (BOSU stands for BOth Sides Up!) Flip it over on the ball side, and with the hard surface up, try to stand on it. It is tricky getting on it at first. Here is a video of me getting on the bosu ball and then rocking from side to side. I really don't seem to have a smile on my photos or videos. I am concentrating too hard, I guess.

Using the Bosu Ball as a wobble board is a great exercise if you need to practice balancing for skiing or surfing. Then Alex and his friend, Chelsie tried the wobble. Not bad at at all!

Then out of nowhere, the grand ski master decided that he needed to show up the young bucks. My husband, Rich jumped on the Bosu Balance Trainer as a wobble board and check him out!

Then he really decided to show off, by extending far to the right. I guess all his years of skiing paid off in the balance exercises. Balance: great! Form: Not so great! What a goof ball, don't you think?

Finally, let's begin some basic, but more difficult standing movements on the Bosu Ball. Here I am doing what they call the Jump-Stick balance exercise. It is a vertical jumping movement that sticks the landing, like they do in gymnastics. It is quite hard and requires lots of focus. Just look at my concentration! Do try and smile while you do it, even if I don't.

There are many more difficult standing poses on the Bosu ball. I have done more standing poses in Yoga positions that you might find helpful. See my article on the Bosu Balance Trainer and Basic Yoga Poses.

Go deep into your core, the center of your being to find your balance on your Bosu Home Balance Trainer. May your body-mind-soul balance be improved as you learn to focus on your center!

My Series of Bosu Balance Trainer Exercises:

• Bosu Balance Trainer for Body-Mind Balance
• Basic Standing Balance Exercises
• Basic Yoga Poses
• Core Strength Training ~ 1
• Core Strength Training ~ 2
• Overall Fitness Strength Training
• Aerobic Exercises
• Core Exercises ~ Understanding the Core of My Being

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