Core stability training is essential to sports performance and injury prevention in sport and work. The body's core muscles are the foundation for all other movement. The muscles of the torso stabilize the spine and provide a solid foundation for movement in the extremities. Core stability is important to keep a good, solid posture. Many back pain suffers have weakness in the core and is easily relieved through training the deep abdominal muscles. Pro-Am has a variety of core training equipment.

Pain caused by sprained ankles, and a variety of other injuries common to highly trained athletes, often have nothing to do with strength, flexibility or endurance. More often than not, sprains and strains have to do with balance. Proprioception, to be exact. The term proprioception refers to a sense of joint position. Proprioception training is highly common in rehabilitation of injured athletes, but it can just as easily be used to prevent injury. Even a strong ankle can sprain when running on uneven ground if the runner hasn’t trained the neuromuscular system to react appropriately. Slight deviations in terrain require slight adjustments of balance to avoid injury.

So you’re not a runner. Why should you care about balance? Well, for starters, it’s the basic skill needed in practically every sport or task. From soccer, tennis and rock climbing to climbing the stairs, cleaning the windows and lifting. Changing your center of gravity to match your moves is the key to efficiency in sport. The technical term is agility. Agility is what allows us to move gracefully, wasting little motion. It allows our joints to move through the full range of motion smoothly and confidently. While the start of fell racing season might require that your entire attention remain focused on the trail to avoid falling, after several weeks of running, you may notice that you are more confident in your ability to adjust to the terrain by foot feel alone, and you need to pay less attention to the trail. In this way you increase your kinesthetic coordination, and in turn your balance improves. Kinesthetic awareness, or the ability to know where your body parts are in 3-dimensional space, is required for every movement we make. So it's not surprising that balance can be learned, challenged, and improved