Sometimes people spend loads of time stretching trying to fix a pain or imbalance in their body. I've definitely been there. Don't overlook the power of making your joint more stable. Sometimes more stability actually releases stiffness and makes the nervous system calm down. Balance is a great way to start on that journey... and have some fun doing it :) - Josh IG ► instagram.com/thestrengthside
Hey Josh, you know you became poular when when this happens ruclips.net/channel/UCk23IuuX_GDifLeRfyTmbWA Make a report as he's reaching out to your followers to scam 'em.
Hey STRENGTH SIDE! I got an "idea share"! So...latest body muscle learn...psoas. Ergonomic "posturing" that may be comforting the psoas...straddle the corner of a bed mattress...before crossing one's legs..."indian style"...pull the corner of the mattress between one's legs. No matter what...ergo-comfort! Any physiology facts from STRENGTH SIDE? The firmer the mattress...the more comfort.
As a senior man who has RA & PD I played every sport every well, tennis, pickleball and golf. Once PD became more severe I can barely play golf. Now I just work on balance. I am 83 years old👍🏻👍🏻
This is a great segment!!.. I wish you would do an entire series on this..! I started doing thus close to a year ago. Its been slow going but making progress dai!y, 65, pacemaker,torn rotated cuff,snapping scapula, both knees torn, fibromyalgia,.. Oh the list goes on ..I have a 85 year old hubby THE LOVE OF MY LIFE, that I need to be strong for so I hit the gym or outside in Fla daily and practice balance at least three times a week , it makes a huge difference.. Fyi, you have more of us over 65 watching you than you think lol...I started my journey by watching calimoves... Blessings
i really like your videos since its not cliched like a lot of body related channels where there is a hyperfocus on weight, calories and workouts, you guys seem to be more about holism, awareness, meaning and alignment , with a focus on how we have forgotten how the body is an important aspect of being. particularly this video- on balance , you have maintained the focus on body but i kept hearing almost subconsciously how important balance is overall
I think strength and balance should be developed simultaneously. Most balancing requires strong muscles-particularly core muscles. Flexibility is also a key to balance as the body must be in proper alignment to make balance possible.
Balance Is the most important thing in life. I saw it in construction workers working in high open unprotected places, and falling to them literally means losing your life. Unbelievable how they catch themselves at the slightest bend. Very flexible bodies. How they can balance themselves even when stepping on a pebble! High Feet intelligence
As someone who suffered from an undiagnosed vestibular issue for a big chunk of my life, I can say without hesitation, having spent a year doing rehab, balance is one of the keys to happiness. Doing exercises that include head and eye movement are very important.
Riding a longboard and skiing made biggest improvements in balance. It's crazy how quickly it can improve and it really does make you much stronger once you have good balance. Also work on balance in my Asana practice warrior 1/2 to standing on one leg. Slowly working towards being able to do full pistol squats and more.
I'm practicing balance by doing exercises on a wobble cushion. Standing on one leg, one leg deadlift, squatting and so on and it really improved my balance
As my basic for stability, balance and mental strength I've been doing a variety of yoga forms for over 30 years by now. I recommend everybody to start taking yoga classes at least once a week to combine with the sports they like doing. It's also a perfect weekly overall test of your body and mind. Keep up the good work Strength Side. I also recommend everyone I know to watch your videos 👍🤓
Good stuff! I started following your channel at the beginning of March 2020 and since then, my balance improved tremendously (single leg deadlift) + standing on one leg for several minutes, bear crawls (will have to try the slower pace). I also like the tree stance in yoga.
Really good content! Balance is the best way to activate the deepest muscles and tissue of your body such as the multifidus. These are the true core of your body (even deeper than even the transverse abdominus) and when they work with your pelvic floor, your body as a fantastic root system of stability from which strength and mobility stem. Having the eyes closed is hard for many beginners so with my patients and athletes, I first have them do head movements with their eyes open such as nods, side to side, and circles before moving to eyes closed balancing. Head movements also get the multifidus firing better so if eyes closed is too hard in the beginning, keep them open and just spend some time moving your head and eyes around standing on one leg until you're more comfortable.
Dancing argentine tango is a great balance exercise. I just tried the 60s on one foot with eyes closed. Its super easy for me. I think thats because of tango. (The following part even has to balance on the front of the foot, often with eyes closed and you dance for hours on one evening. That was something I practiced when I learned to follow: standing on the front foot (heel doesnt touch the ground) with eyes closed for 3 sets both legs every day)
Wow i just did the one leg balance and tried to breathe normally and relaxed into it. But as soon as I closed my eyes don't know what happened i lost balance immediately
I absolutely LOVE your videos, & this one is EXCELLENT! I'm COMPLETELY into what you guys are saying. Thank you for your vids, & your excellent input into the world. I'm so appreciative. 🙏❤😌
In martial arts, we practice going from front kick to side kick and to rear kick. We begin allowing to tap the toe on the mat for stability but the goal is to go through the kicks without touching. The movement memory is so awesome as I always seem to have this balance, even after 26 years of cycling through remembering to practice it.
You guys totally get it. I have never been unimpressed with any of your videos. I aspire to be in the physical shape that you both have achieved. Keep up the great work that you do, I am sure that you have helped many people with you knowledge.
I bought a balance board a couple of years ago and if I workout from home I use this as a warm up before lifting. I think it has really improved my balance but now I'm thinking I need that balance ball!
ooff i'm not sure when my balance thing got messed up but wow I can really feel it more that I'm getting older. I'm definitely refocusing on balance again. Thanks for these vids boys!
I can’t remember where I heard it (possibly Ido Portal) but supposedly the majority of old age deaths can be related to balance. Slipping, falling down the stairs etc etc all goes back to a lack of mobility and balance. The yoga ball had helped me massively especially for BJJ and martial arts in general.
Pvc pipe is the cheapest and most accessible balance toy you can buy!! 2 inch diameter works great as a balance beam, buy some Elbows to begin then go just for the pipe to level up the challenge ✨❤️🔥
As someone with hypermobility, I struggle with this. Keeping myself in balance is never a relaxed state, because many of my limbs want to hyper extend. Im always struggling with feeling in my center/optimal alignment. A slight scoliosis and LLD as well as a total loss of curve in my cervical spine also complicate things.
Liked the video! I use a foam balance pad bought off Amazon, similar to the pad my Pilates instructor made me balance on. After a minute with each leg my whole leg is sore.
I've been a competitive distance runner for several decades w app. 200 overall race wins from 1 mile to 1/2 marathon. Most of my fastest running was hugely supplemented by barefoot running.( Strong feet = Fast feet!) Out of 120,000 miles trained I've done 23k without shoes. The last 16 months I've exclusively ran barefoot. All long runs hills & speed work ---just my own 2 feet( like animals do!!) Traditional running sees 80% of all runners injured every year, predominantly because the shoes put you way too high, force yr feet into unnatural positions & atrophy the foot muscles& create massive imbalances/ weaknesses.No proprieception. Barefoot? I've had zero injuries despite extremely tough training & terrain( 5 mile uphill tempo runs) mega reps of hills galore & usually doing 2 runs per day,100K per week. My stability is orders of magnitude better since giving up shoes.I also do all my weight training barefoot( including a period where I squated over 10,000 reps in a 100 days on top of all the running. Start by walking, baby steps will lead to eventual mastery of you lower limbs including owning absolutely bullet proof feet. GREAT VIDEO--VERY SMART !! Thank you!
Yoga puts a lot if emphasis on balance. Practicing yoga has improved my balance and it has improved my functionality. Not that it was bad but improvement feels good. Honestly though balance is a big deal for seniors. Fall prevention and fracture prevention go together. As a pt i often train patients to improve balance.
It is...if you muscularly damaged, ... to strengthen, is great if your body is fit but flabby to tone it up, however if you have torn muscles, or even broken muscles, strength training will just agrievate it, or make it worse ... I recently now have an exercise ball called "core strength" which I use for balance, I roll onto and hug, one day hopefully I can stand on it ... and then later in a few years I will be strong again, in my own way, off I go. one day at a time, 3 years so far, cant rush Healing, peace
I've been doing your Daily practice and on the lunge exercise I close my eyes while holding my feet works the balance and I try to build a connection from the ground to my feet :) Also try to jumprope with my eyes closed for about 10 seconds at the moment every few minutes just to practice rhythm and balance :)
hey man so i started doing some exercises for knee elbow this and that so i don't turn into a frail and weak man at age 60 but everything i do is just pretty basic and surface level stuff i'd really appreciate it if you could make a video where you can maybe show exercises or small habits (every different exercise adds up and it consumes a lot of time not complaining but i'm sure there are better ways) so that we can be as strong as our genetics allow us to be when we are old also i got a question whenever i bend downi can freely move my upper back but my lower back just looks humped(?) is this because of my hamstring being too tight or do you think there might be another problem ty for the videos
I have a hip impingement and I play basketball. I can’t even squat because my range of motion is so bad, I can’t even squat to parallel to the ground. I dont know what to do. If I fixed it I feel like I would be able to be so much more athletic. The doctor wants me to get surgery, but I would be out for 9 months and I can’t do that. What do I do someone please help.
I had a Fracture near my wrist it's called Schopid Bone.. It's been two months now, i got my cast removed.. But Wrist movements is not good.. Earlier I use to do all your crawling movements.. Now I have been really missing it.. Can you just help me out.. Plsss
I've been doing yoga most of my adult life. I'm now 52 my flexibility and strength has maintained but my balance I feel is getting worse every day. Is this something I can improve on or is this a normal part of aging?
I need help with balance. I have been in a wheelchair, by choice four years ago. Now I’m trying to get out of it and my balance is awry. I’ve been building on strength and stretching and seemed to succeed there but I cannot get balance and I keep falling. Help! What do I need to do?
Yeah but...for all of that dialogue...does it mean anything if you showed us with your body covered? Oh.ok. Only means anything if you can do these movements top less. Got it.
Sometimes people spend loads of time stretching trying to fix a pain or imbalance in their body. I've definitely been there. Don't overlook the power of making your joint more stable. Sometimes more stability actually releases stiffness and makes the nervous system calm down. Balance is a great way to start on that journey... and have some fun doing it :) - Josh
IG ► instagram.com/thestrengthside
My favorite balance exercise is the slack line.
Hey Josh, you know you became poular when when this happens ruclips.net/channel/UCk23IuuX_GDifLeRfyTmbWA
Make a report as he's reaching out to your followers to scam 'em.
Hey STRENGTH SIDE! I got an "idea share"! So...latest body muscle learn...psoas. Ergonomic "posturing" that may be comforting the psoas...straddle the corner of a bed mattress...before crossing one's legs..."indian style"...pull the corner of the mattress between one's legs. No matter what...ergo-comfort! Any physiology facts from STRENGTH SIDE? The firmer the mattress...the more comfort.
Fell off a ladder last night - so I’m voting balance 😂
Must be shyte
As a senior man who has RA & PD I played
every sport every well, tennis, pickleball and golf. Once PD became more severe I can barely play golf. Now I just work on balance. I am 83 years old👍🏻👍🏻
How was your cricket was you a batsman or a bowler? What about your surfing - goofy foot or regular - long board or short board?
What is ''PD" ?
@@lz.mirandix6688PD is (probably) Parkinson's Disease and RA is Rheumatoid Arthritis.
This is a great segment!!.. I wish you would do an entire series on this..! I started doing thus close to a year ago. Its been slow going but making progress dai!y, 65, pacemaker,torn rotated cuff,snapping scapula, both knees torn, fibromyalgia,.. Oh the list goes on ..I have a 85 year old hubby THE LOVE OF MY LIFE, that I need to be strong for so I hit the gym or outside in Fla daily and practice balance at least three times a week , it makes a huge difference.. Fyi, you have more of us over 65 watching you than you think lol...I started my journey by watching calimoves... Blessings
Love hearing your journey :) Keep it up
i really like your videos since its not cliched like a lot of body related channels where there is a hyperfocus on weight, calories and workouts, you guys seem to be more about holism, awareness, meaning and alignment , with a focus on how we have forgotten how the body is an important aspect of being. particularly this video- on balance , you have maintained the focus on body but i kept hearing almost subconsciously how important balance is overall
Yeah balance is they key to life especially as a metapohor :)
I think strength and balance should be developed simultaneously. Most balancing requires strong muscles-particularly core muscles. Flexibility is also a key to balance as the body must be in proper alignment to make balance possible.
great points there. Balance is never in isolation
Not a stretch, but swimming has helped me a bunch with my balance because of the amount of core strength it needs.
thx
So true. Balance in movement is the next level
Balance Is the most important thing in life. I saw it in construction workers working in high open unprotected places, and falling to them literally means losing your life. Unbelievable how they catch themselves at the slightest bend. Very flexible bodies. How they can balance themselves even when stepping on a pebble! High Feet intelligence
As someone who suffered from an undiagnosed vestibular issue for a big chunk of my life, I can say without hesitation, having spent a year doing rehab, balance is one of the keys to happiness. Doing exercises that include head and eye movement are very important.
Riding a longboard and skiing made biggest improvements in balance. It's crazy how quickly it can improve and it really does make you much stronger once you have good balance. Also work on balance in my Asana practice warrior 1/2 to standing on one leg. Slowly working towards being able to do full pistol squats and more.
I'm practicing balance by doing exercises on a wobble cushion. Standing on one leg, one leg deadlift, squatting and so on and it really improved my balance
I Vote for a ‘Hash it out’ podcasts where the broskis talk about gold topics like this one along your travels!! Love this fam ❤️🔥
As my basic for stability, balance and mental strength I've been doing a variety of yoga forms for over 30 years by now. I recommend everybody to start taking yoga classes at least once a week to combine with the sports they like doing. It's also a perfect weekly overall test of your body and mind.
Keep up the good work Strength Side. I also recommend everyone I know to watch your videos 👍🤓
GREAT video, thanks SO much for putting this out. All The Best to all!!
Good stuff! I started following your channel at the beginning of March 2020 and since then, my balance improved tremendously (single leg deadlift) + standing on one leg for several minutes, bear crawls (will have to try the slower pace). I also like the tree stance in yoga.
Strengt Side fusions body & art. Inspiring!
Wow, great video, tried the balance on one leg and then closed my eyes, really surprised at how difficult it was, definitely something to work on.
I'm sold. Time to work on balance!
Really good content! Balance is the best way to activate the deepest muscles and tissue of your body such as the multifidus. These are the true core of your body (even deeper than even the transverse abdominus) and when they work with your pelvic floor, your body as a fantastic root system of stability from which strength and mobility stem. Having the eyes closed is hard for many beginners so with my patients and athletes, I first have them do head movements with their eyes open such as nods, side to side, and circles before moving to eyes closed balancing. Head movements also get the multifidus firing better so if eyes closed is too hard in the beginning, keep them open and just spend some time moving your head and eyes around standing on one leg until you're more comfortable.
Dancing argentine tango is a great balance exercise. I just tried the 60s on one foot with eyes closed. Its super easy for me. I think thats because of tango. (The following part even has to balance on the front of the foot, often with eyes closed and you dance for hours on one evening. That was something I practiced when I learned to follow: standing on the front foot (heel doesnt touch the ground) with eyes closed for 3 sets both legs every day)
Wow i just did the one leg balance and tried to breathe normally and relaxed into it. But as soon as I closed my eyes don't know what happened i lost balance immediately
I absolutely LOVE your videos, & this one is EXCELLENT! I'm COMPLETELY into what you guys are saying. Thank you for your vids, & your excellent input into the world. I'm so appreciative. 🙏❤😌
I agree with you!!! This channel is a ray of sunshine!
Another very useful video. You do a great job of developing routines that involve basic natural everyday moves with minimum of equipment.
What do you recommend for strengthening feet if you’ve had issues with feet pain before? Like plantar fasciitis or neuromas or misalignment etc?
In martial arts, we practice going from front kick to side kick and to rear kick. We begin allowing to tap the toe on the mat for stability but the goal is to go through the kicks without touching. The movement memory is so awesome as I always seem to have this balance, even after 26 years of cycling through remembering to practice it.
You guys totally get it. I have never been unimpressed with any of your videos. I aspire to be in the physical shape that you both have achieved. Keep up the great work that you do, I am sure that you have helped many people with you knowledge.
Ballet for the hips, handstands for the shoulders, crawl to connect it all
I recently (past year) pulled out a couple of our very old GYMNIIC balls and started using them casually. Helpful and fun!
I bought a balance board a couple of years ago and if I workout from home I use this as a warm up before lifting. I think it has really improved my balance but now I'm thinking I need that balance ball!
ooff i'm not sure when my balance thing got messed up but wow I can really feel it more that I'm getting older. I'm definitely refocusing on balance again. Thanks for these vids boys!
Loving the lizard on hot sand move! Great video, thanks!
Love a video on feet strengthening and reversing flat feet 🙏🏼
Sounds fun!
Something that seems to work my balance is when I picked up skating again
I can’t remember where I heard it (possibly Ido Portal) but supposedly the majority of old age deaths can be related to balance. Slipping, falling down the stairs etc etc all goes back to a lack of mobility and balance. The yoga ball had helped me massively especially for BJJ and martial arts in general.
Hi josh, please make video on mind muscle connection. Requesting you from India 🇮🇳.
Pvc pipe is the cheapest and most accessible balance toy you can buy!! 2 inch diameter works great as a balance beam, buy some
Elbows to begin then go just for the pipe to level up the challenge ✨❤️🔥
As someone with hypermobility, I struggle with this. Keeping myself in balance is never a relaxed state, because many of my limbs want to hyper extend. Im always struggling with feeling in my center/optimal alignment. A slight scoliosis and LLD as well as a total loss of curve in my cervical spine also complicate things.
Liked the video! I use a foam balance pad bought off Amazon, similar to the pad my Pilates instructor made me balance on. After a minute with each leg my whole leg is sore.
You are 💯% CORRECT
I've been a competitive distance runner for several decades w app. 200 overall race wins from 1 mile to 1/2 marathon.
Most of my fastest running was hugely supplemented by barefoot running.( Strong feet = Fast feet!)
Out of 120,000 miles trained I've done 23k without shoes. The last 16 months I've exclusively ran barefoot. All long runs hills & speed work ---just my own 2 feet( like animals do!!)
Traditional running sees 80% of all runners injured every year, predominantly because the shoes put you way too high, force yr feet into unnatural positions & atrophy the foot muscles& create massive imbalances/ weaknesses.No proprieception.
Barefoot? I've had zero injuries despite extremely tough training & terrain( 5 mile uphill tempo runs) mega reps of hills galore & usually doing 2 runs per day,100K per week.
My stability is orders of magnitude better since giving up shoes.I also do all my weight training barefoot( including a period where I squated over 10,000 reps in a 100 days on top of all the running.
Start by walking, baby steps will lead to eventual mastery of you lower limbs including owning absolutely bullet proof feet.
GREAT VIDEO--VERY SMART !! Thank you!
Yoga puts a lot if emphasis on balance. Practicing yoga has improved my balance and it has improved my functionality. Not that it was bad but improvement feels good. Honestly though balance is a big deal for seniors. Fall prevention and fracture prevention go together. As a pt i often train patients to improve balance.
It is...if you muscularly damaged, ... to strengthen, is great if your body is fit but flabby to tone it up, however if you have torn muscles, or even broken muscles, strength training will just agrievate it, or make it worse ... I recently now have an exercise ball called "core strength" which I use for balance, I roll onto and hug, one day hopefully I can stand on it ... and then later in a few years I will be strong again, in my own way, off I go. one day at a time, 3 years so far, cant rush Healing, peace
Also rolling my feet. Had to mention after your spoke about the feet in this part 🦶🙌
Awesome! Thanks for making these videos!
✌🏼😎👍🏼
I'm 62 and I do 2 variations of head stands.
I've been doing your Daily practice and on the lunge exercise I close my eyes while holding my feet works the balance and I try to build a connection from the ground to my feet :) Also try to jumprope with my eyes closed for about 10 seconds at the moment every few minutes just to practice rhythm and balance :)
I like jumping rope with closing my eyes and switching hands are the same time.
@@johnlozauskas778 holy geez lol not there yet haha
love that addition!
@@Strengthside 😃
I used to use a SlackBlock which really helped my basketball game.
Excellent, thanks
Thank you for that video ! Such un underrated subject !
Good question
THANK YOU
Thanks!!
This is another great video. Love this channel! And you are just improving!
Ok cool
This is the good shit
Bikram yoga has A LOT of one leg balancing ❤🙏
Love the concept and video, but maybe more exercises that are for beginners please.
Great summary and get tips. Thx 👍🏾
you guys rock man
always new inspiration and ideas for me for my training and health progression! :)
This is essential. Thanks.
Sport balance like inline skating and mountain bike
Would something like surf skating be equivalent? Requires balance and skill building, and is fun
Great content 🙏👏👏
That’s why there’s such a thing as yoga 🧘
Balance requires strength. Strength without balance is rather useless. Trusting your body... priceless.
Where are these videos shot? Love the scenery
Awesome 👍
hey man so i started doing some exercises for knee elbow this and that so i don't turn into a frail and weak man at age 60 but everything i do is just pretty basic and surface level stuff i'd really appreciate it if you could make a video where you can maybe show exercises or small habits (every different exercise adds up and it consumes a lot of time not complaining but i'm sure there are better ways) so that we can be as strong as our genetics allow us to be when we are old also i got a question whenever i bend downi can freely move my upper back but my lower back just looks humped(?) is this because of my hamstring being too tight or do you think there might be another problem ty for the videos
Balanced Strength
i think stablizing muscles are way more important then most people think
Amazing video - thanks
Thank you!!
Love your videos they are so inspiring! Your state looks so beautiful what state are you in?
Try a “Slack-Block”
Greetings from Germany
That's an advantage of the internet. This was the only way I could get to know you despite being several 1000 kilometers away
I have a hip impingement and I play basketball. I can’t even squat because my range of motion is so bad, I can’t even squat to parallel to the ground. I dont know what to do. If I fixed it I feel like I would be able to be so much more athletic. The doctor wants me to get surgery, but I would be out for 9 months and I can’t do that. What do I do someone please help.
I had a Fracture near my wrist it's called Schopid Bone..
It's been two months now, i got my cast removed..
But Wrist movements is not good..
Earlier I use to do all your crawling movements..
Now I have been really missing it..
Can you just help me out..
Plsss
I've been doing yoga most of my adult life. I'm now 52 my flexibility and strength has maintained but my balance I feel is getting worse every day. Is this something I can improve on or is this a normal part of aging?
More important balance
Strength brace
Crawl on knuckles- avoid wrist strain
Very good, & I like the camo hat
holy shit that park is beautiful
Hey guys... are you humans??? 🤣🤣🤣 great video. Thank you so much!!!
I need help with balance.
I have been in a wheelchair, by choice four years ago.
Now I’m trying to get out of it and my balance is awry.
I’ve been building on strength and stretching and seemed to succeed there but I cannot get balance and I keep falling. Help! What do I need to do?
Keep falling and get back to it. That's the whole point of balance training, just don't give up till you have success👍
You will get there as neural pathways are reactivated. Keep going. Each day you will get stronger.
Out of balance , out of order . Without balance , we can’t do anything properly .
When lifting weights I like to stand on a bosu ball
What state are you in? Washington?
Bro where are you that place is nice
Entrenamiento de fuerza unilateral = + equilibrio. 2X1 jeje
Most high level sports require great balance…
Shaq falls down while dunking. Malone fell downstairs. So again let it go strength train first balance later.
Just take my money already.
Slackline
Yeah but...for all of that dialogue...does it mean anything if you showed us with your body covered?
Oh.ok. Only means anything if you can do these movements top less.
Got it.
00:58 ,🤗😂😅👍
💗💓❤️♥️😘🥰😇💖❣️
The Foundation of a house is Strength and a Balance is the supoort beams. Folks get education soon. 🙄
slackline babe! Thank me later!
I fall over just trying a lot of the stretches you recommend. Been stretching regularly for a few months and it's def getting easier.
The closing your eyes and standing on one leg is an eye opener!
Yet another great tutorial reminder of simple challenges 👌 but awesome results