Balance Fusion Review

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cocoloco

Cathlete
While I'm waiting for my downloads to download, I thought I'd try Balance Fusion. Oh how thorough this is and how surprised I was when Cathe announces the final exercise of the warmup! I thought I was right in the middle of the workout. Oh it felt really good! Shame I don't have more time right now, but the warm up is very worthwhile

Can't wait to get started on this series properly!

Thanks Cathe and crew!
 
cocoloco said:
While I'm waiting for my downloads to download, I thought I'd try Balance Fusion. Oh how thorough this is and how surprised I was when Cathe announces the final exercise of the warmup! I thought I was right in the middle of the workout. Oh it felt really good! Shame I don't have more time right now, but the warm up is very worthwhile

Can't wait to get started on this series properly!

Thanks Cathe and crew!
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Balanced fusion is one of my favorites. It’s fun and challenging all wrapped in one.
 
Debinmi said:
@cocoloco ,thanks for your review! How would you say this one compares to the bonus balance work on original LMR?
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I know that you didn’t ask me this directly, however since I happen to see this question, I thought I would offer my opinion as well. I made it a point to make sure that this balance workout was definitely elevated compared to the first workout. The warm-up is thorough and has its own long extended segment of challenges. Then there are challenges, holding the ball while balancing. Then there is a segment with the balanced discs and barre (you can use a chair). Then it progresses to the next segment, which is balance discs and the ball together. Then you put all the equipment away and you do standing balance work like warrior three and divers pose. It’s not an easy workout (but it’s fun) and it keeps you engaged from start to finish. I think you will really enjoy this workout but give yourself time to grow with it because it is quite a step up from the original LMR
 
Cathe Friedrich said:
I know that you didn’t ask me this directly, however since I happen to see this question, I thought I would offer my opinion as well. I made it a point to make sure that this balance workout was definitely elevated compared to the first workout. The warm-up is thorough and has its own long extended segment of challenges. Then there are challenges, holding the ball while balancing. Then there is a segment with the balanced discs and barre (you can use a chair). Then it progresses to the next segment, which is balance discs and the ball together. Then you put all the equipment away and you do standing balance work like warrior three and divers pose. It’s not an easy workout (but it’s fun) and it keeps you engaged from start to finish. I think you will really enjoy this workout but give yourself time to grow with it because it is quite a step up from the original LMR
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Just what we asked for! Thank you Cathe and Team!
 
Just did this one starting with the 2-minute balance challenge. Was fine until I closed my eyes. The full workout was fun and challenging. Was doing pretty good until the balance discs came out. Taking a foot off and then placing it back on the disc to switch and do the other side was so hard! Then, when the ball came out too. Yikes! Definitely need to do this more and see if I can improve.
 
Tried this workout for the first time today. Definitely fun. I was trying to figure out how I'd categorize it in comparison to other standard workouts and this would be somewhat like a lower body endurance workout - of course just NO weights in this one (can't imagine the chaos that would cause adding weights!)

Definitely challenging, and I appreciate a workout that focuses on it. For the longest time my right side has been the least balanced, so I appreciate some of the unilateral work in there to properly challenge each side.

I don't have an STS bar, nor do I have a proper chair that I can bring in to rely on, so for a couple of the exercises I used my barbell's bar for a little support, but the rest of the time, I was completely hands off.

Lots of wobbling all over on the balance discs. Happy to be putting them to some more use.

And the funny little ball toss/hand raise/head tap/toe tap exercise had my head exploding on the first side. Look forward to working on that some more to see some improvements.

Will try to see about adding this workout in once a month, at least, on a leg day or maybe a light recovery day.

One final ask - if anyone has good advice on how to properly inflate the little ball without losing half the air out of it when you go to put in the plug, I'd love some advice. My ball is never fully inflated because I just can't get the plug in fast enough before all the air starts to escape.
 
Kellyro77 said:
And the funny little ball toss/hand raise/head tap/toe tap exercise had my head exploding on the first side. Look forward to working on that some more to see some improvements.
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LOL! I have been practicing that off & on all day! I got the foot tap & ball toss down,
each time you tap foot, you toss ball, got that in sync…next, I think, each arm movement is one toss/tap but adding in the head tap, things went haywire! Once that
happens, I tend to want to tap head before raising arm which is backwards:). Quite
a challenge !
 
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I have three squishy balls, and none of them are ever at the appropriate air level. When I did this workout for the 2nd time, I alternated between a yoga block and a small 2lb medicine ball
 
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