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Today's the Day: Blog

BOSU Jumping Jack!

Posted: Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Can you believe it’s March already! You would never know it by the temperatures outside. So, a cold start to the week but we are back to our regular Today’s The Day segments this week. For those who tune in right around the 8-30am mark to catch it, I need to give you the heads up. The segment has been moved up by a few minutes and will now air at around 8-20am. This will be great news for some of you who need to head out the door by 8-30am, and for those of you who PVR the show….well that’s about 4 seconds less on the fast forward button!! (Not that you aren’t watching the entire show start-to-finish!)

Tanya Robertson, the founder of Personalized Fitness joined us for this mornings segments and as expected brought her trusty BOSU ball with her! She really does love that BOSU ball. Well actually, we were at SOMA Health and Fitness on Sussex Dr. so Tanya didn’t actually bring her own, just borrowed one of 10 at her disposal at the club.

Tanya had us doing jumping jacks on the BOSU. Start with the BOSU ball face up on the floor and your legs placed on the floor on either side. Jump and land on top of the BOSU with legs close together and then back down with legs on either side of the ball. It should look exactly like a normal jumping jack but your landing surface is different and requires you to use more CORE strength. It also really increases cardio endurance. I don’t use my arms like a normal jumping jack but rather keep them out in front of me for better balance and coordination.

Tanya suggests incorporating this into your weight lifting circuit training. You can add it in by doing a set amount like 30 jacks or doing it my time, like 30-45 second intervals. Within weeks you should be able to increase the time intervals or the set amount.

If you find the jumping jack a little too tough, Tanya also showed us an easier way to do it and slow it down. Instead of jumping unto the ball, do it foot by foot….So bring the right foot on, then the left, followed by bringing the right foot down and then the left. Repeat for a certain amount of repetitions and then repeat leading with the left foot.

I tried to find an example of the exercise on the web but didn’t find one that matches….I did however, find one that I thought would give the hardcore gym nut a challenge. I’ve attached the video and think I may just try this one too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2y0Hb991MY

You can always get more information on Tanya at her website www.personalizedfitness.ca

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