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Balance hold

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Balance hold

Beginner30 secondsNo jumping

Muscles worked

CalvesGlutesQuadsAbsObliques

You need

No equipment

How to do it

  1. Stand on one leg, lift your other foot off the floor behind you with the knee bent, and extend both arms straight out to the sides like wings.
  2. Then simply stay there.
  3. Your standing foot makes dozens of tiny corrections every second to keep you upright - that invisible work is the whole exercise, and it sharpens the balance everything else in your training quietly depends on.
  4. Keep your eyes fixed on a point ahead of you, complete the hold, then switch legs.

Exercise from Darebee, used under licence.