Stability Program
Stability is fundamental for everyday life. It allows us to become prone to injuries and can help avoid falls during any kind of physical work or activity.
What is stability?
Think of you body like a car. You could have the strongest engine, but if you do not have all the auxiliary components in place to support it, your car is going to spend more time in the repair shop then on the road.
You body runs in a similar way. By developing the core components of your body’s stability and mobility, it will allow you to have better control of movements and to process the energy and stress exerted during exercise. It will help to improve in your fitness and also eliminate the chances of sustaining an injury when you are working on larger muscle groups.
How do I improve my stability?
As your overall stability is influenced by groups of muscles, they can therefore be trained in a way similar to how we would train other muscles within our body as if we were to do a weight session in the gym.
We need to train these particular muscles in way that will optimise their role for ensuring that mobility, flexibility, and stability of your body are in control.
Here are just a couple of exercises you can do to help:
Sit-ups and Planks
Our core is the control centre when it comes to having strong stability. Having a strong core means that our balance is more stable and also us to control movements a lot better. These two exercises are the most basic but fundamental exercises you can do to help strengthen your core and stabilising muscles.
If doing sit-ups and planks get a little boring after a while, there are hundreds of different variations your can do to help strengthen this area. For an extra challenge you can add in dumbbells or barbell plates, or even add in some twists or punches at the top of each motion.
Squats
Squats not only target are larger muscle groups in our lower body (quads and glutes) but they also focus on important stabilisers in around out pelvis and hips. Performing deeps squats (thighs parallel to the ground) will help prevent tightness but also increase the blood flow to your pelvic muscles.
Exercise Ball
Next time you are in the gym, or if you have an exercise ball at home, use this to enforce those stabilising muscles. By completing exercises on an uneven surface such as an exercise ball or bosu ball it will help you uncover areas of weakness that you may not know exist.
For instance, if you perform a dumbbell press on an exercise ball, not only does it strain your pectorals but will also train your smaller, stabilising muscles within your shoulder and upper back, leading to increased strength for future performance on any surfaces.
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