Bosu Ball Balancing Tips

Series Summary

What makes Steve Nash such an amazing basketball player is not that he is the tallest, strongest, or fastest player out there. Many other players exceed him in height, speed, and strength. However, Nash does exceed almost every ball player out there in his agility. Agility is the ability to control and utilize your strength, height, speed, power, and intelligence to best execute whatever task is at hand. Steve Nash is living proof of the athletic importance of agility and agility training. It is an easy aspect of athleticism to neglect, but a very important part.

In this free video series, watch as Carole Childers, teaches different agility training exercises and techniques using a Bosu ball. Learn how to do balance, do squats, how to do knee hugs, different balance techniques, how to do high knee and bicep curl exercises, how to do step ups, crunches and of course leg lifts. Strength and speed are not the only important things while playing a sport, so watch these videos and become an agile athlete.

Video Transcript

"I want to show a variety of exercises that incorporate the bosu ball and basically that's a balance challenge and can be used in a variety of ways. We're going to show just basic exercises that you're used to in the gym or at home, that you can add a little balance challenge in with the bosu. First thing you want to do is get used to incorporating your core and then activating that balance across core mechanism and the kinetic chain. So give it a touch, each side because you know you're going to have one foot that leads over the other. You want to be strong and balanced on both sides all throughout your center of gravity. That core strength. So we just start by stepping up and down, look down at it. Try to hit the middle so you're square on top and that makes everything in line and down and just basic up. And then just start trying to hold it, so you can get everything moving from top to bottom and controlling the movement. Activating that core of gravity. Come down, up and down. And then you can start trying to look up and down and away. Because that's when you'll notice when you start taking your eyes off of your center, everything balanced here and looking away is going to make you want to lose your balance. So that's another little easy way you can work into it and get your balance down pat before you start trying to add in weighted movements."