Improving Balance

If you don’t want to take up Ashtanga yoga to improve your balance then I’ve put together a quick list of alternatives. But first, it’d help to go over what balance is and how it works. That way you can be smarter about how you train.

Whats Involved
Most people balance using their vision as a guide [...]

Ashtanga and Ju Jutsu

I’ve been doing Ashtanga with regularity now since December and I’ve had some great – though slow – benefits so far. The two biggest areas of improvement which I felt in the space of 3 sessions was:
Balance – this has improved and still gets better every time I do another session. There’s a lot of [...]

Ashtanga – Day 1 of 2009

Thursday is meant to be plyometrics.  However, I did that on Wednesday (got confused) and so for New Year I did 1:30 of Ashtanga Yoga with David Swensons DVD.
Oh how I hurt.  I used to think Ashtanga made you sweat and heave a lot but it wasn’t much of a workout as such.  Certainly not [...]