Seniors Haven’t Felt This Balanced in Years

StrongBoard Balance Board and Kathy Smith
Kathy Smith & StrongBoard Balance Board

Seniors have been balancing responsibilities for years. Balancing on StrongBoard, and specifically StrongBoard Mini, can help seniors maintain their physical balance, so they remain injury free. For anyone with ankle, hip, knee, or core injuries, StrongBoard Mini is ideal for those looking to feel as physically balanced as they were years ago.

StrongBoard Mini has springs which are 2” shorter than StrongBoard, making it somewhat less reactive, while still providing the benefits of 360 degrees of tilt on an unstable surface. Standing on StrongBoard Mini immediately engages the core of all users. Balance training helps elderly people improve proprioception and strength, as well as strengthening ligaments and tendons and other stabilizing muscles.

For most seniors, flexibility and strength training, combined with balance exercises, can help prevent slip and fall accidents more effectively by training the mind and body to naturally respond counter intuitively to instability.

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StrongBoard Balance and Yoga Practice

The tree pose (pictured below) is one of many yoga poses, also known as asanas, made more challenging by StrongBoard Balance. Yoga practice encourages balance, alignment, and awareness in the body while stimulating the mind, which is why it is ideal to enliven a stale routine, and challenge yourself.

StrongBoard Balance Board Yoga

So how does StrongBoard benefit yoga practice? StrongBoard benefits the Yogi by assisting in strengthening the core muscles for increased spine stabilization, and strengthening ligaments and tendons around high stress areas (knees and ankles), which supports better balance and overall performance. Additional benefits are improved coordination, flexibility, anaerobic capacity, and muscle endurance.

A beginner can use StrongBoard Balance to establish proper alignment of the spine and stability of the ankles, hips, shoulders, and core. It’s recommended to start off with basic poses, even for an expert (at least initially) when beginning yoga on StrongBoard. Poses like the plank, downward facing dog, and warrior 1, 2, and 3 are all good poses to start off with. The advanced Yogi, after adjusting to StrongBoard, can go for more intricate poses such as tree, headstand, and wheel.