Olympic Mogul Skiing And Balance Exercises

Balance Exercises Help Dominate In Mogul Skiing

By Suzanne Stoke, Physical Therapist @ Exercise For Balance via www.exerciseforbalance.com

    With the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi coming up quickly,  Olympic mogul skier Heather McPhie is training hard with cardiovascular workouts, strength training and balance exercises to get ready. Please see http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now Heather McPhie competes in mogul skiing which involves hurtling down a ski slope that is covered with boulder-sized bumps and jumps. Each skier must not only navigate the moguls smoothly and as fast as possible, but also throw in a series of flips and twists off the jumps. To prepare for the Olympics, Heather McPhie has focused on increasing her endurance and balance to complete each thirty second run up to five times a day. Heather McPhie's workouts include a grueling schedule of circuit workouts, involving wall sits, knee bends, box jumps-- all while holding free weights to enhance the intensity.  McPhie also pushes the limit with long distance cycling to bump up her endurance factor. Additionally, she routinely practices balance exercises to hone her take offs and landings for her twists and turns in the air off the jumps.

Balance Exercises For Improving Balance

    We may not all be heading to the Olympics this Winter, but balance exercises can be helpful to enhance stability for older adults or advance competition levels for athletes of all sports. One of the most important aspects of having excellent steadiness with all movement activities is to understand how to center as well as how to control one's body weight. One of the most common reasons for falling comes from the person's loss of the ability to pull their body weight back to the center once their body weight has moved beyond midline. Whether you are Heather McPhie needing to keep her body centered as she performs a flip off a jump in the middle of a mogul run or whether you have a parent with instability and has a history of falling, we can all enhance our safety with movement activities by practicing equilibrium routines. You can learn specific stability strategies and balance exercises in the Exercise For Balance DVD, developed by an experienced Physical Therapist and designed to enhance your balance no matter what level you are starting with.

Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

      No matter what level of activity you participate in, begin the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The comprehensive Balance DVD is the perfect instructional DVD to use at home or in a group setting. The professionally filmed Balance DVD follows step by step with the best balance and strength exercises needed to enhance senior fitness and to perform basic activities like walking, standing, stair climbing or to advance to high level activities like dancing and hiking. In the Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve balance, balance techniques and balance routines from a balance trainer --licensed Physical Therapist-- who has worked with balance and dizziness disorders for over 20 years. Get your copy of the Exercise For Balance DVD by clicking on the BUY NOW button

Join Heather McPhie  by starting balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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