subject: Bosu Balance - Why Choose Bosu? [print this page] Bosu Balance use the Bosu Ball Pro and get two products in one.
In one format, you have a product you can stand on, sit on, lie on and do a variety of new movements with many of your traditional movement patterns.
Then when you turn the BOSU over, you have an unstable surface that you can use for upper body and torso exercises. So, buy a BOSU if you are looking for a truly versatile instability training product.
What is it for?
As with all instability products, the fact that when you use them, they move, you get an additional amount of muscle recruitment and therefore benefits of doing exercises. If you think of traditional movements you already know, for example, press ups when you do them on the BOSU the reaction or movement means that your muscles are firing rapidly to compensate for the unstable surface.
If you turn it over, you can effectively have something to work your feet to the top of your head, as by working on the BOSU it makes you focus and gain your balance until eventually your movement patterns will become more symmetrical, more balanced and more powerful.
How do you maximise BOSU balance?
A good way to use the BOSU is to take traditional movements you are already familiar with, for example squats and lunges, and once theyve achieved a level of efficiency on those exercises, introduce an additional challenge of doing them on the BOSU surface. From here a lunge, the challenge and activity level is increased because you are working against an unstable surface. From the moment your foot is making contact with the BOSU, you have to react and engage more muscle firing to enable to keep balanced, to keep strong.
You can work from the floor to the BOSU, or from the top surface off and on. You can move through many movements adding challenge and intensity. Flip the BOSU over and take traditional exercises, like the sit up, transfer them on to an unstable surface and instantly have a new level of intensity.
What are the benefits of using BOSU balance training?
The benefits to the user because the actual surface of the BOSU is more when active, it makes you more focused and more aware of what your body is doing. Therefore, if the board moves one side to another, you can see it and feel it, meaning you can actually rectify the situation.
So using a BOSU is going to increase the clients body awareness, whilst at the same time improving their balance, co-ordination and strength levels.
