• 20" Board.
• 12 degrees.
Rocker Board ExercisesTo start, position your feet shoulder width apart, centrally on the Rocker Board. Begin by slowly moving the Rocker Board side to side, or front to back, depending on your position. Similar to the Wobble Board exercises, the name of the game is control.
Click here to read more...Bullet-Proof KneesEvery skier and snowboarder has heard it more than once in their life: “Bend your knees.” That’s particularly good advice for tense beginners or intermediates who look rigid. But what appears to be “knee bend” in experienced skiers and riders is actually a kind of functional relaxation, something that becomes a habit in all good athletes because of one important fact: Relaxing the knees facilitates balance.
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Exerpt: A Test of Will: One Man's Extraordinary Story of SurvivalI throw myself into rehab like a man possessed. I have to give myself the best possible chance of success and that means being as fit as possible. But wheeling into the amputee unit's gym, I'm startled at first by the site of all the people with various missing limbs.
Click here to read more...Testament To Miracle of Modern MedicineI hurt my knee for the first time as the current ski season was starting. The odds might say this was to be expected. I have been skiing since grade school.
Click here to read more...ProprioceptionProprioception, the body’s ability to react appropriately to external forces, is the keystone to a functional rehabilitation program.
Click here to read more...How to Sell: Balance / Wobble BoardsBalance is of course what keeps us upright and mobile. And although one doesn't ever think about training balance, every one of your customers should because it is what allows them to run, walk, skate, ski, hike or run around after their kids.
Click here to read more...Leading the World to Better Balance in 2005The American Council on Exercise (ACE) predicts Balance Training will be the #1 fitness trend in 2005.
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