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Give the Gift of Balance for Christmas this year!

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Looking for gift ideas for Christmas?  How about a great piece of fitness equipment for improving balance?  How about the PowerPlane Total Fitness Platform? It is suitable for any age and any fitness level!  Physical balance is a basic skill needed for every sport and everyday life.

Do you know that pain caused by sprained ankles and a variety of other injuries common to even highly trained athletes, often have nothing to so with strength, flexibility and endurance?  More often than not, sprains and strains have to do with a lack of balance training, proprioception to be exact.

The term proprioception refers to a sense of joint position.  Training the neuromuscular system to react appropriately will prevent injury and help the joints to move through the full range of motion smoothly and confidently.

PowerPlane advantages over other balance equipment:

1. 33″ long – it long enough to do a proper squat, lunge, push up without knees and elbows joints passing 90 degree angle.  As well it is long enough to use as vertical unstable incline bench to challenge balance and core in prone and supine positions while still using attached elastics.
2. PowerPlane has 10 halls for elastic attachments.  That enables for the resistance to come from different angles allowing athlete to change body positioning, train for sports specific, train symmetric and asymmetric balance etc.
3. PowerPlane has 4 levels: Stable platform, limited balance, full range balance and extreme balance platform.
4. PowerPlane can be used as a sit up bench where athlete can perform resistance crunches, sit ups, different various core exercises.
5. With PowerPlane athlete can be challenged by giving quick perturbations directly, with the medicine ball underneath, or indirectly via robes attached to the platform.

Get fantastic results with the PowerPlane for the any of the activities below and more!

Skate Boarding, Snowboarding, Surfing: Great for teenagers wanting to learn the foundations of these sports.

Hockey, Soccer, Tennis, Basketball: Perfect for any sport training that requires quick direction change, agility and changing your centre of gravity to match your moves.

Balance, Stability, Core Conditioning: Improving these skills are crucial for our everyday lives, especially as we enter into 3rd age.

Guess who trains with PowerPlane?  Check out this video! Aaron Downey PowerPlane endorsement- Detroit Red Wings

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