Do you have great balance?
Poor balance?
Do you have great stability?
Poor stability?
Huh?
What's the difference you ask?
Well balance and stability are not the same thing and here's why.
- Stability is the ability to resist movement coming towards and into the body - think standing on 1 leg and someone giving a light push from the side.
- Balance is the ability to control your equilibrium or maintain your center of gravity/base of support within a given sensory environment.
- Stability is a state and balanced is a proficiency
- Static and dynamic balance don't correlate to well so you'll need to all the way along the static-dynamic continuum for transfer to whatever you require stability and.or balance for specifically
- Balance is a pretty easy adaptation to acquire as it uses no energy to train train it so you can do so daily without it affecting anything else in your life
- It's all better to train balance with more frequency but in smaller dosages so say 3 - 5mins per day vs 45mins 1/week
- Balance is also task specific so if you train to hold the Tree Yoga pose then that's what you'll become good at, it doesn't mean you should head to the Grand Canyon and tightrope walk across it without a net.
- Standing on unstable surfaces is a means of modifying stability in a given situation (task specific stability), not training actual balance
Some stability exercises to start with include planks and single leg stands.
Some balance exercises to start with include single leg romanian deadlifts and single leg ball (any ball really) throws catches
You can see in that last video as the ball switches from front on to side on, it is far more challenging so make sure you work up slowly.
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