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Better Balance Leads to Winning Golf

Nice weather is upon us, and it is time to hit the links. If you’re like us, your golf swing might be a little rusty and off balance. StrongBoard can help you get your golf game where you want it.

First, try to place your lead leg in your golf swing on StrongBoard and find your balance, then practice your back swing while trying to maintain correct form. Start out with one or two repetitions with good form, and go up from there. It’s okay if it’s hard to stay on the board at first, as most users take a little while to find their balance. Then, switch legs and do an equal amount of reps.

Doing this exercise will force you to turn your torso while keeping an upright spine posture, which is important to a great golf swing. Many golfers don’t maintain correct spine posture and move back, up or down in their swings. Incorrect posture while on StrongBoard will force you to fall off, thus reinforcing the need to maintain correct form.

Standing on StrongBoard will help to strengthen leg muscles associated with a powerful golf swing, such as glutes, hamstrings, and calves.

Here is Douglas Hendricks of Winning Golf TV to explain further:

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Getting Professionally Fit with StrongBoard

StrongBoard Balance Board Lynette Romero KTLA — Mike Curry & KTLA’s Lynette Romero

Being a fitness professional is hard work. Whether you are a physical therapist, a sport coach, a personal trainer, or athletic trainer, it requires years of education, personal training, and experience to be at the top of your game.

Even the most advanced fitness professional is going to be limited by what they can do if they don’t have the right equipment. StrongBoard Balance offers a wide range of features and benefits which all fitness professionals can use to improve their client’s responses to individual goals.

For personal trainers and performance coaches, StrongBoard compliments hundreds of unique training and discipline styles. StrongBoard helps the average user get fit by creating muscle confusion during workouts. The instability created by the board works muscles in a variety of ways which cannot be replicated on solid ground. Any sport, whether it’s golf, mixed martial arts, basketball, baseball, or stand up paddle boarding, can be aided by balance training by working on specific skills which are improved with a better center of gravity.

For physical therapists and athletic trainers, this means helping their patients recover and prevent injuries to their ankles, knees, and hips, and any associated tendons or ligaments, as well as strengthening their core. Getting back to peak physical performance can be accelerated with regular use of StrongBoard Balance.

For more information on how physical therapy and StrongBoard go together, click here.

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Make Your Partner Your Workout Buddy

Being a mother or father isn’t easy. It can seem like there is no time for either of you between work and kids. Physical activity can bring both of you closer together, making you feel more connected which doesn’t involve getting intimate. Working out is a great way to connect, and also keep in shape at the same time. Make your partner your workout buddy!

Working out together improves the quality of a relationship because of the physiological arousal experienced while working out. It’s similar to getting intimate, and your body can’t distinguish between the two. Simply put, it feels good to exercise, and when you’re with your partner, you’re getting the added benefit of bonding. It can also bring the same benefits as working out in a group, which increases your motivation to go to the gym, as well as increasing your chances of completing a workout regime.

Most importantly, and with scientifically backed research, working out improves the emotional bond between parents. Improving the emotional bond with your partner leads to a whole host of benefits, most importantly creating a loving environment to raise children in.

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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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Kids Find More than Balance on StrongBoard

With the weather getting increasingly warmer, you might want to find a nice green space and start taking your workout with StrongBoard outside. Or, depending where you live, it might be too hot, and you’ll want to workout in air conditioning. Either way, there might be kids around (especially if you have children), and they’ll naturally ask:

“That’s cool, can I try it?”

The first thought of many parents faced with this question is, “Will my child be safe on StrongBoard?”

Yes, kids are definitely safe on StrongBoard. It’s best to demonstrate how to get on and off StrongBoard first, and some supervision is recommended. The thing is, most kids are naturals on StrongBoard.

Kids don’t typically weigh as much as adults so they don’t apply as much weight to the springs when they step on, and not as much imbalance is created. But they will have a blast wobbling around as much as a full sized adult.

Some good, easy, and fun exercises for kids on the board are: standing on it and moving around, push ups, and squats. You can add games like catch and tug a war… even the popular rhyme, “ears, shoulders, knees and toes” is fun on StrongBoard. In addition to requiring focus which is especially beneficial in children with ADHD and Autism, regular use of StrongBoard is shown to strengthen reaction time and improve hand eye coordination.