Burn More Calories With Balance Training

A great way to burn more calories without changing things around too much is to add balance training to your fitness program. Using balance equipment like dyna discs, wobble boards, or gliding discs adds variety to your program for increased calorie burning and faster fatloss and toning. The added bonus is improved balance, coordination, and fun. Incorporate the quick and easy balance training tricks below and you'll start seeing visible changes within days.

Use Dyna Discs for Basic Exercises. Stand on the discs and you can do squats, overhead dumbbell presses, or dumbbell curls. Standing on discs while doing basic moves works the inner thigh, glute, and ab muscles which increases calorie burning and toning. If you're more advanced you can front lunge or side lunge onto the disc which makes leg workouts much tougher without added weight. You can also use the discs for push-ups and for planks by placing your hands or your feet on them you get a lot more core interaction and burn more calories. This is a favorite in boot camp classes!

Use Wobble Boards for Throwing Exercises. Stand on any wobble board or indo board and practice light weight medicine ball throws with a partner. You can also perform upper body chopping or swinging type exercises on your own. This improves stability of all load bearing joints while engaging the core and increases calorie burning in a big way since your body is working hard on many types of movement.

Use Gliding Discs for Ab & Glute Exercises. Get into a push-up position and place feet on gliding discs then perform a circuit of mountain climbers, knee-ins, side to side gliding. This type of ab workout is much more effective than plain old crunches. You can also lay on your back and place heels on the gliding discs and perform bridges, leg curls, and pilates oriented inner and outer thigh moves. With gliding discs you can target areas of your abs and lower body that may get neglected with regular training.

Use Any Balance Training Tools for Yoga. Yoga requires tons of balance and focus and if you struggle with this then you know how frustrating your practice can get and how this can reduce calories burned. Incorporate any of these tools to 2 or 3 of your balance poses and you'll find that balance on the floor becomes easy instantly. This allows you to focus on those calorie burning poses.

Burn more calories with Dyna Discs and check out my Fatloss Core Strength Workout for more balance training ideas.