Building up balance and core strength

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Permalink Reply by Mike River on April 13, 2011 at 20:27

Mate you dont need to spend any cash to make that kind of stuff. I find a deck with trucks taken off and a large plastic bottle, with the lid done up tight= balance board. Use a soft ball and skateboard deck to make 360 axis wobble board. Slacklining is good and very addictive. standing on one leg and doing squats with your eyes closed is good for building legs back up and core strength/balance.

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by The Dave on April 13, 2011 at 23:47

At this stage I'm only able to manage hydrotherapy so I need a submersible wobble board.

Once I can do exercises with full weight bearing out of the pool I'll set up a street deck with no truck bushings (or ludicrously soft bushings)

I've found that squats and lunge-walking are killer. Definitely be keeping those as a regular exercise routine.

Just scouting around for other ideas. I want to come back from this injury a  lot stronger and more stable than I was before it.

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Permalink Reply by Bozac on April 14, 2011 at 9:56

gabe made a thread ages back on making your own indo board it might be worthwhile checking out to save some cash, one of the guys on there also made a balance board

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ASRA AdminPermalink Reply by bernie on April 14, 2011 at 16:25

Wax on, wax off......

Where do you want the old cars delivered to?

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Permalink Reply by James on April 16, 2011 at 0:03

You can make almost any excercise a core/stability work out. The trick is reducing the stability. For example when I do pushups I have may hands and feet all on different balls which gets all the little core stabiliser muscles working and makes the excercise a heap harder. Pushups probably aren't what you need its just an example. Maybe try squats on your wobble board?

 

Once you're out of the pool I'd try working on some unilateral exercises too. Lunges, Bulgarian split squats, one legged squats ect. have a look at this page for some ideas. Farmers walks could also be a good idea. This is where you basically walk whilst carrying some heavy weight. This can be done in a bunch of variations: arms by your sides with weight in each hand, arms by sides with weight in one hand, arm above head with single weight ect. ect.

 

This may help, it may not.

/Exercise nerd rant

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Permalink Reply by Scotty Bomber on April 16, 2011 at 2:48

Hi Dave

Clinical pilates changed my life. I would never have been able to take up longboarding without it. I had a serious disc injury, now I have it under control without surgery.

A good quality program managed by a qualified physio is what rocks, not the gym based or group floor-based pilates crap. Costs some cash but worth it.

I'm currently practicing 'scooter' exercises that strengthen my dual leg pushing strength (for skating) and seated ankle kicks (for double-kick drumming). And I have a whole series of home based exercises that I actually want to do daily as they make me stronger, skate better, and be able to withstand crashes and falls.

Slacklining looks great!!!!!

 

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Permalink Reply by chrispychrunchy on June 30, 2011 at 23:19

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mate get into some stand up paddle boarding. wrecked my back ,the physio got me into it and presto no more cortisone shots in the spine and lost nearly 17 kg in 5 months. am stoked as i was told i would never surf or skate or have any fun for that fact. 

Dave R said:

At this stage I'm only able to manage hydrotherapy so I need a submersible wobble board.

Once I can do exercises with full weight bearing out of the pool I'll set up a street deck with no truck bushings (or ludicrously soft bushings)

I've found that squats and lunge-walking are killer. Definitely be keeping those as a regular exercise routine.

Just scouting around for other ideas. I want to come back from this injury a  lot stronger and more stable than I was before it.

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