Foundation VIII

Train your balance.

In practicing Foundation II, you've already started this process.

You're on your feet, now move your feet in closer together and try the same movements. Maybe not so challenging? Now stand in a staggered stance with one foot a few inches in front of the other. Practice like that for a while. Maybe pick up one foot, balance on the other and try like that.

It's like saying "This one goes to 11!" If you've got all your stabilizers switched on and firing just by standing up, now we're ratcheting them up a little higher by challenging your equilibrium. The more you challenge your body's ability to maintain balance, the more you're challenging it and stimulating strengthening responses from the body.

It would be nice if all life's demands were thrown at us when we're standing at the ready in the universal athletic stance, but they're not. You never know when you might have to jump back up the curb because of that taxi you didn't see coming. And you're certainly not necessarily going to be standing in correct neutral posture ready to receive your luggage in the middle of the swarming throngs of people at the baggage carousel when you lunge past that blue hair in front of you to grab your bag.