Body Awareness, Tricks, and Balance Discs
When Myst was 10 weeks old she was introduced to balance discs. She has continued to enjoy playing on them and has excellent body awareness and core strength as you will see in these videos. The first video is an introduction to all the fun things that can be done to build this core strength and awareness. Then each short video shows how Myst was introduced to each exercise or game. Working with balance discs is excellent for indoor activity with your dog.
Balance discs help with compression, extension and proprioception. Proprioception is spatial orientation such as isolating hind feet for work. You will see this in Myst's work with the small pods and how she has learned to place her hind feet on different configurations without looking.
Fitness discs include different sizes of balance discs, the dome disc, warble boards, the small pods, the peanut and donut. Other creative things such as ladders, poles, dishes, boxes, stools can be used for perch work, box work, plank work and other fun balance and body awareness games.
A few guidelines when working with balance discs:
Two Cool Border Collies Visit the Gym
Balance discs help with compression, extension and proprioception. Proprioception is spatial orientation such as isolating hind feet for work. You will see this in Myst's work with the small pods and how she has learned to place her hind feet on different configurations without looking.
Fitness discs include different sizes of balance discs, the dome disc, warble boards, the small pods, the peanut and donut. Other creative things such as ladders, poles, dishes, boxes, stools can be used for perch work, box work, plank work and other fun balance and body awareness games.
A few guidelines when working with balance discs:
- Begin with one disc and reward your dog for interacting with it.
- Introduce your dog to each disc you will be working with.
- Your goal for static work should be that your dog can hold a position of stand, sit or down for 10 seconds.
- When your dog is comfortable with static work then introduce movement. You will see many ways to have fun with your dog on the balance discs. There is no end to the creative way to interact with these discs.
Two Cool Border Collies Visit the Gym
Overview of Body Awareness and Core Strength
Getting Started: Puppy, Young Dog, New to Balance Discs
Introducing my new puppy to balance discs and unstable surfaces through play
9 Week old Beckett bold and happy on unstable balance discs
9 Week old Beckett bold and happy on unstable balance discs
Advancing With Your Core Strength Work
Perch Work - excellent for obedience
Plank Work - excellent for agility
Balance Disc Pods: excellent for proprioception
Using the Peanut for Core Strength: Peanut 101 and Peanut 102
Myst Has Fun with the Donut
NEW: Advanced Work with FitPAWS Pods
NEW: Balance and Core Strength with the Wobble Board
Plank Work - excellent for agility
Balance Disc Pods: excellent for proprioception
Using the Peanut for Core Strength: Peanut 101 and Peanut 102
Myst Has Fun with the Donut
NEW: Advanced Work with FitPAWS Pods
NEW: Balance and Core Strength with the Wobble Board
Creativity and Cool Tricks for Body Awareness and Building Core Strength
Using Stiks for Body Awareness
Creativity with your Balance Discs
How I Taught the Handstand
NEW: Summertime Fun: Tricks, Core Strength and Staying Fit
More Fun with Balance Discs
Using Balance Discs for a RALLY course (click on this link for the youtube video)
NEW: Myst's Advanced Balance Work