Paddling Out | Best Balance Workout

The Paddling Out exercise is great for surfers, paddlers and anyone looking to improve their balance and proprioception. Try this great balance workout today!

1. Turn StrongBoard Balance so that it sits lateral to your stance.

2. Place your right toes on the handle and push platform down to where it rests against the base.

3. Place left toes on the platform handle and lower your knees down to the opposite side of the platform.

4. Keeping your chest up and your abs engaged, slowly level the platform out.

5. Shift your bodyweight slightly forward and begin moving your arms in a swimming motion. Think that your paddling out to your next wave.

6. Continue this motion for desired amount of repetitions.

Tips: This is a beginner exercise but may still be challenging because of the position of your body and the board. Start off just finding your balance in this position. Once you feel comfortable, add the swimming strokes in. For more of a challenge, hold a pair of Dumbbells to add resistance.

 

StrongBoard Balance utilizes MULTI SPRING TECHNOLOGY™ that works with your body to deliver the perfect amount of stimulation to keep your core musculature and stabilizing muscles engaged and contracted, while training your central nervous system, improving posture, proprioception and reaction time.

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Advanced Combination Workout | Step Up with Lateral Kick | Video

Step Up with Lateral Kick is a great advanced combination workout for sculpting thighs & toning the lower body. Try it with StrongBoard Balance Board for additional benefits like improved balance and a stronger core!

1. Place your right foot across the center of the StrongBoard Balance logo on the platform, with your left foot on the floor behind you – lunge position. 

2. Keeping your chest up, shoulders in your back pockets, drop your left knee towards the floor. 

3. Thrust out of lunge position and up into a step up, pulling your left knee up.

4. When you are at the height of your step up, slightly turn your hip in and kick your left leg out laterally, driving with the heel.

5. Return left leg to midline and drop back into lunge position. 

6. Repeat for desired amount of repetitions. 

7. Switch Legs

Tips: Keeping your posted leg slightly bent will help with stabilization. Be sure to have a focal point. Keep abs engaged and stay centered on the board. For more of a challenge, keep your leg up for multiple kicks before returning to lunge position, or give yourself additional lunge pumps before raising yourself into a step up position. 

StrongBoard Balance utilizes MULTI SPRING TECHNOLOGY™ that works with your body to deliver the perfect amount of stimulation to keep your core musculature and stabilizing muscles engaged and contracted, while training your central nervous system, improving posture, proprioception and reaction time.

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Balancing Heart Health and Exercise

StrongBoard Balance Board Heart Health and Exercise

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States annually. What can be done to prevent heart disease?

The answer is a complicated one, but there’s no doubt leading an active lifestyle is important. While this particular blog focuses on exercise, diet plays a much bigger role in heart health. It doesn’t matter how effective your workout regime is, if you are consuming trans fats, saturated fats, and foods which cause inflammation, your heart will pay the price. However, exercise can improve heart health if you’re eating right.

‘Leading an active lifestyle’ is a broad term, and it’s easy to get lost. Specifically, interval training has been unmatched in it’s benefits to the heart, as well as battling diabetes, and losing weight, which are all big contributors to heart disease.

Interval training is short bursts of high intensity exercise, followed by slightly longer periods of active recovery. The more muscles you can involve, the better. More muscles involved means your heart has to work harder to pump blood to more areas, leading your heart to have to become stronger.

For example, you could try three rounds of as many pushups as you can in a minute period, with two minute breaks in between. Incorporating weights into your training is even better. Stronger muscles ease tension on the heart. Oh, and being strong is inversely correlated with death in men. Yoga, non-impact sports, and simple activities like gardening or cleaning help to relieve blood pressure and burn calories.

The good news is, to have a healthy heart, you don’t have to exercise for hours on end. You just need a short workout in which you give it your all.