The Fitness Journal

Athletes and fitness buffs have one thing in common: they encounter injuries every once in a while. Some may be minor ones, while others can be serious. For professional athletes, it could mean the end their career or their once-in-a-lifetime chance for fame and glory. Although sports injuries are not inevitable, you should ensure that you do everything you can to reduce the chance of occurrence. One way of achieving this is by maintaining balance in training.

In this situation balance has a few meanings, the first is balance in relation your life and to the training that you do – the balance between your sports training and the strength and conditioning work you do for your sport, and balance between your training and recuperation from your training.

The second type of balance is the balance between one side of the body and the other, or of one muscle and it’s opposing partner (antagonist.) If you have imbalances from side to side or other muscle imbalances, you increase your risk of injury, postural problems and muscular pain.

The third type of balance is your physical sense of balance, the ability to maintain appropriate stability when stationary or moving. Kinesthetic awareness, or the ability to know where your body is in space is needed for every movement of the human body. Some people use various activities such as standing on one leg, or walking on narrow boards to improve their balance. It is important to note that these activitites are very specific and generally don’t have a great crossover to a particular sport.

I will discuss all three types of balance in future posts. Overall keeping balanced across the board is essential in improving overall health and well-being and reducing your chances of injury and pain.

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Train Smart, Love Life.
Wayne