Fast Fitness - One-Legged Party Trick for Strength, Flexibility, Balance
Friday, April 25, 2008
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
Here is Friday Fast Fitness - have fun while building balance, flexibility, coordination, concentration, and leg strength.
- Stand on one foot with a can or other small container on the floor in front of you
- While balancing on one leg, bend to lower yourself toward the floor
- Retrieve something fun from the floor with your mouth - no hands.
This is a fun one for kids and adults, for parties, or simple physical training.
Ideas: retrieve a paper cup from the floor filled with something good to drink, or a healthy treat, coins, notes, or small gifts.
Think first and do it safely. Keep back leg lifted, not both feet on the floor, to reduce outward force on
discs. Switch legs to practice both sides.
Photos by Jolie
Labels: balance, children, fast fitness, hip, leg strength, leg stretch, lunge, squat, strength, stretch
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Think first and do it safely. Keep back leg lifted, not both feet on the floor, to reduce outward force on discs. Switch legs to practice both sides.
4 Comments:
At Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:27:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
You mean to tell me you're not going to stress the L5-S1 area with all of that rounding? C'mon...
At Friday, May 02, 2008 12:40:00 PM,
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM said…
Hello anonymous, Back leg lifted makes a difference.
At Friday, May 09, 2008 4:44:00 AM,
Dufbil said…
(I thought I had commented before, but I'll try again now with my blogger account.)
Is it okay in this pose to let the knee go beyond the toes like in some of the pics? After reading your articles and books I tell the people in my yogaclass to keep the knee above the foot and ankle.
At Sunday, July 13, 2008 7:26:00 PM,
Terry Lee Gonzalez said…
Does anyone have a You Tube video of this?
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