Hi, this is Jamie from Body Works and I’m just following up with some of the videos
that Taylor has done on ski conditioning.
What I want to talk about today is just a little bit of balance training that you can
start before you get into the ski season.
So there’s a couple main things you want to think about when you’re working on your
balance; one thing is to let the area that you’re trying to work, let it do the work
so basically what you want to see when you’re balancing is if you’re doing a one foot
balance you want to make sure the arms and the legs stay quiet and the ankle and the
foot actually do the balancing for you, so that’s one thing that you’re going to
try to carry through.
The other thing is you don’t want to stare at your feet while you’re doing your balance,
pick a spot further away, for skiing the further away you’re looking the better off you’re
going to be and you can kind of try to transfer that into your balance work here.
So I’ll give you three progressions; the first one that you’re going to do is a single
foot stance with no surface to deal with, so the single foot stance what you’re going
to do is 3 repetitions, 30 second holds and once you get comfortable with that you can
move on the next, the next exercise.
So at the clinic here we have these soft foam pads but what I usually ask people to use
at home is just couch cushions and you can pull them off the back of the couch and basically
what that does is gives you an unstable surface to balance on, so you’re going to use the
same parameters 3 x 30 seconds and you’ll just find when you balance on this you don’t
really get the foot to stay still and it makes you work a little bit more adjusting yourself.
Once you’re comfortable with that the most difficult of them will be doing the balance
on the upside down Bosu ball and so in this one what most people find is it’s got quite
a bit of movement to it so when you stand on it you can actually wobble around quite
a bit.
When you first get on it what you normally notice is that it wobbles around side to side
quite a bit, once you get comfortable with it will just kind of settle down and then
you’re in this position, so what you’re going to try to do, same thing 3 x 30 seconds
on the Bosu ball as long as you’ve mastered the other ones.
So that’s it for the balance stuff and the progressions.
If you have any questions or anything let us know at the clinic and that’s it for
now.