Hello and welcome to the Run-To Run to the Top podcast.

This is Coach Claire Bartholic, and today I am reading

the benefits of balance training for runners,

written by John Davis.

There are a few strength exercises that seem to be staples among runners, leg lifts, clam shells, hamstring stretches,

glute bridges, and a few

hamstring stretches, glute bridges, and a few others.

One of these exercises, which you're sure to see being done by friends and competitors

in the running community, is balance training.

Improving your balance or pro-based is balanced training.

Improving your balance or pro-preoception, your body's internal sense of the positioning and motion of your joints

is lauded as a good way to treat or prevent injury by physical therapists and

athletic trainers.

Today we'll look into the science behind balance training including its efficacy at improving your balance and pro-preoception,

as well as its effect on injury risk.

What is balanced training? Balance training is a very popular prescription for treating or preventing ankle sprains.

While a sprained ankle is not an overuse injury,

studies on balance training and ankle sprains can help us better

understand how improving balance can affect proprioception, biomechanics, and overall

coordination. Everte, Biomechanics, and Overall Coordination.

Studies on Balance Training

One such study was published in 2004 by Everett Verhagen

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