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Fitness Training with BOSU Ball |
A nasty fall led David Weck to invent a new fitness device called the BOSU ball.
Who would have thought that cutting a stability ball into half would lead to the creation of an innovative fitness training apparatus?
Well, that’s what David Weck, inventor of the Both Sides Utilised Training (BOSU) ball, did. He kept falling from the stability ball while trying to stand on it, and frustrated, he cut it into two.
That was in 1999 when functional training was starting to emerge, and since then, the revolutionary invention has taken the world by storm. Now, the BOSU ball is a common fitness equipment found in gyms and is used widely among professional athletes.
“I was in New York City and injured my back from a motorcycle mishap. My lower back hurt for a year, and traditional physical therapy or alternative treatments did not work for me,” recalls Weck, during a recent trip to Malaysia.
“So I started working on the stability ball to rehabilitate and discovered that the balance and core training provided relief from my pain. Standing on top of the ball was beneficial for coordination, but I would continually fall. One night, I had a nasty fall, and that was when I thought it might be easier if I cut the ball into two.”
