Exclusive Seated Balance Exercise Poster Illustrated - Balance Ball for the Swimming Pool

The exclusive Seated Balance, the fun sea horse movement can engage your abdominal muscles - IF you know the correct positioning. For many people who struggle with bad backs, strengthening your abs will help your back muscles. With the Seated Balance, as is the case for many exercises, one slight variation may cause you to engage the wrong muscle groups. For the Seated Balance, the most common mistake is shown below. Your goal is to keep your knees below your waist.

If you are at home reading this, try this exercise at home on a chair. Position your derriere at the end of your chair,slowly lift your legs off the floor.If you wish to feel your back muscles engaged, lift your legs where your knees are higher than your waist. If you pay attention, you will feel the different muscles engaged.

Here is a photo of the right and the wrong positioning in the water with the swim board. Remember the swim board is only 22" - you do not sit in - you are sitting on top of - very similar in the balancing on land using the Swiss ball or the instability ball.

insert image - seated balance right and wrong

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