Bosu Balance Trainer for Overall Fitness Strength Training

Performing exercises on the Bosu Balance Trainer is a fun way to build muscle strength. As you age, overall fitness strength training becomes very important so you don’t loose muscle mass. Muscle mass is extremely important to keep your metabolic rate high, so you can burn more fat. Muscle utilizes more of the body’s energy reserves than other tissues.

You don’t need to invest in weights or expensive gym memberships if you don’t want to. Simply using your own body weight, with or without the Bosu Balance Trainer is an effective way to develop your overall fitness strength training program and build your body-mind fitness.

Of course, you can do many traditional strength training exercises on the Bosu Ball that are done with weights. You can do a bench press with weights on the Bosu Ball. Just use it in place of your weight bench. You can do lunges and squats using weights on the Bosu as well. Doing your weight training exercises on the Bosu Ball adds the element of balance that will utilize more accessory muscles of stabilization than static and isolated movements. Plus it makes all the movements more challenging and interesting.

So grab your Bosu Home Balance Trainer and I will show you how to build overall fitness strength with it, by merely using your body weight. The Bosu Ball is a fabulous tool for balance training, for any exercise you choose. All of the fitness strength training exercises I offer are also balance exercises and will also greatly improve your body balance.

Also, see my introductory Bosu Balance Trainer and Body Balance articles to increase your understanding of how improving your physical balance can improve your total body-mind balance!

If you do all the Bosu Balance Trainer exercises as body-mind exercises, you can be free from your self-imposed prison, just by working on your body. Your body can help set you free to understand the messages that your Body Window is trying to help you understand. When you do your overall fitness strength training, focus on your balance in your body and in your life.

Say positive affirmations while you do your Bosu Balance Trainer exercises: "I am balanced in all things in my body-mind-soul!"

‘Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.’ ~ Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel

We will start first with fitness strength training of the upper extremities and upper body.

Here is Chelsie using the Bosu Balance Trainer turned upside down, as a wobble board. When you turn the Bosu Ball upside down, it makes everything you do just that much harder. She is demonstrating the Plank Pose on the Wobble side of the Bosu Ball. This pose works on your arms, pectoral muscles and core.

Here is Chelsie and Brett adding an element of difficulty by extending a leg from the plank position. Alternate legs for even training on both sides. The Bosu Ball is still in the upside down wobble board position.

I add yet another degree of difficulty to the arm work-out, by starting in the plank position and doing a push-up:

After you complete the push up movement, push the Bosu Ball first to the left and then to the right, in sort of a side-to-side push-up. This will work your arms, your pectoral muscles and your core to the max!

The final arm strength fitness training exercise that is a real killer is the Reverse Plank Pose. This one strengthens your triceps as well to help you get rid of the underarm jiggles.

The overall fitness strength training for your legs starts with a Modified Side Plank Pose, and then you raise your leg up and down. This one is much more difficult than it looks and really works outside of your legs, your derrière and core. Don’t forget to do both sides and both legs to evenly balance your strength on both sides.

The classic squat on the Bosu Balance Trainer works your legs and then some with the additional stabilization needed for balance. Here I am doing this one and I finally remembered to smile!

You can add a twist to the squat to make it more difficult and add more balance to work your trunk stabilization muscles:

I unintentionally left out lunges on the Bosu Ball. I think I personally dislike lunges more than any other leg exercises ~ a real body-mind issue that I need to take a closer look at! I suppose it has to do with flexibility, but I hate to admit it. So, of course, you can take your forward moving leg and lunge off the top of the Bosu Balance Trainer. It is quite difficult and requires a good amount of balance. An excellent overall fitness strength training move using only your body weight.

Here are more Bosu Balance Trainer exercises that will dynamically engage your core and require incredible balance. They are great overall fitness strength training exercises. Keep the Bosu Ball right side up, and do your basic Plank Pose. Then do alternating leg raises. Focus on squeezing your derrière muscles as you balance and engage your core.

If that feels too difficult, modify the exercise by kneeling.

For a final, fun pose for overall balance training, do the Kneeling on the Bosu Ball Pose. First try it with your hands on the ground next to the Bosu Ball. Raise one leg first and then raise the opposite arm as well. Very challenging and engages about all your body’s muscles while balancing. Focus on your inner Power and Balance for these exercises. You will need it!

Now try the same Kneeling on the Bosu Ball exercise, this time, to increase the difficulty of the balance training exercise, put your hands on the Bosu Ball instead of on the ground! Feel like a circus elephant yet?

Congratulations on your journey to body-mind balance on your Bosu Home Balance Trainer! As you work on your overall fitness strength and balance and on your core, you will find your Power and your balance in all things in you life! May your journey to body-mind-soul healing be enhanced by these Bosu Balance Trainer overall fitness strength training exercises!

Can You Do Amazing Things on your Bosu Balance Trainer?

If you have a Bosu Balance Trainer and you have created your own, intuitive balance exercise, will you share it? Send us all a photo or a YouTube video of yourself and what you can do. We would all love to see your balance training efforts to see how you are improving your body-mind balance. I will help you edit and embed your videos if you need help. Plus, you will have your own web page and start your journey to fame! It's really easy, with SBI! Or just share your body-mind balance story. Either way, we'd all love to hear from you.

My Series of Bosu Balance Trainer Exercises:

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

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