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I love the unstable leg standing exercise. Its something that I did a lot in therapy, but i do not own (may buy one) and my gym doesnt have any balance disc.
Should I try to do this exercise on a bosu ball? It seems unnecessarily unstable. Would i stand on the rounded half ball portion or the flat top with the ball side down?
Or do you have another idea for how to sub until I get a balance disc?
Thanks!
Hi Curry,
You can do the exercises on the Bosu ball. If you can complete the sets with the Bosu down then I would progress to the ball up. It is definitely hard, so I recommend cutting the duration of the holds/sets in half or 1/3. Keep the total time spend doing the balance exercises the same, thus adding more sets (3 sets of 30 seconds becomes – 9 sets of 10 seconds). I do not know where your balance currently is but you should be able to ‘be still’ for at least 10s before adding time (and reducing sets).
A good substitution for a balance disc is a large folded towel or a rolled up yoga/gym mat.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
Best,
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