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Revolutionize your core strength and balance with this step-by-step guidebook to the balance board from bestselling fitness and rehab author, Dr. Karl Knopf.

Unleashing the power of the balance board, this guide provides highly effective workouts that quickly produce noticeable results. Whether you’re looking to sculpt a stunning physique, tone muscles, or improve general fitness, there’s a specifically designed program to address your individual needs.

Stability Workouts on the Balance Board offers over 100 safe, straightforward exercises that teach beginners good posture, balance and strength while helping more advanced athletes enhance their sporting lives. With your balance board and this book, you’ll quickly learn how to build strength in both primary and secondary muscles throughout the body as well as:

• Increase core strength
• Improve balance
• Tone muscles
• Release tension
• Rehabilitate Injuries

About the Author

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Dr. Karl Knopf has been involved in the health and fitness of older adults and the disabled for more than forty years. During this time he has worked in almost every aspect of the industry, from personal training and therapy to consultation.

While at Foothill College, Karl was the coordinator of the Adaptive Fitness Technician Program and Lifelong Learning Institute. He taught disabled students and undergraduates about corrective exercise. In addition to teaching, Karl developed the “Fitness Educators of Older Adults Association” to guide trainers of older adults. Currently Karl is a director at the International Sports Science Association and is on the advisory board of PBS’s Sit and Be Fit show.

In his spare time he has spoken at conferences, authored many articles, and written numerous books on topics ranging from water workouts to fitness therapy. He was a frequent guest on both radio and print media on issues pertaining to senior fitness and the disabled.