Balanced Approach

Maintaining equilibrium over your base of support is crucial throughout your day and will largely impact your sport if it involves jumping, running, kicking, rapid changes of direction, etc. Deftly navigating a technical trail or deceptively avoiding a defender may not only lead to better performance but may prevent you from an injurious tumble.

Ancillary balance training may be time well spent and may also add some fun to your workouts. Try both stable and unstable surfaces, eyes open and closed, and with or without perturbations. Regarding empirical evidence, a 2017 systematic review surmised in the papers demonstrating positive effects of balance performance, a training protocol of 8 weeks of two 45-minute training sessions per week is suggested (Brachman et al., 2017).

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