Stabilization enhancement exercise device and associated method
A device for facilitating or enhancing torso and pelvis stability exercises includes two elongate semi-cylindrical resiliently compressible members so coupled to one another as to maintain a mutually parallel configuration, the resiliently compressible members each having a planar side and a cylindrically arcuate side, the planar sides being co-planar with one another. A user attachment component holds the resiliently compressible members to the user with the planar sides in contact with the user in one use configuration and so that the arcuate sides are in contact with the user in an alternate use configuration.
1. An exercise method comprising:
placing on a floor surface a plurality of exercise assist or enhancement devices each in the form of a square or prismatic block of resiliently compressible material, including on one major side two semi-cylindrical profiles or parts that are contiguous with one another and cooperate to define a longitudinally extending center cleft, with said semi-cylindrical profiles or parts facing upwardly;
placing the balls of a user's feet on respective ones of said exercise assist or enhancement devices so the toes of the user's feet relax into said center cleft of the respective ones of said exercise assist or enhancement devices;
standing with the user's knees straight after the placing of the balls of the user's feet on said respective ones of said exercise assist or enhancement devices; and
after a few seconds, softening the user's knees to release upper calf muscles.