Christopher Ellis teaches single-leg balance, starting with arms out for support, then progressing to arms across your chest to make it harder. Add a foam pad or couch cushion once 30 seconds feels easy, then try the Slack Block for advanced challenge.
This is how you perform single leg balance. At first, do it with hands on something. Stand on one leg. Don't let the legs touch, so, and don't do one of these. You want the leg in the air, then you let go of one hand, and then the other. You're going to see shifting of, it should be your foot, hip a little bit maybe. You want your arms out. This is called an arm strategy. I don't like to do that because it doesn't really do much for your balance. I'd rather arms here to force the leg to work a lot more. When that gets easy, you can add in a compliant surface like a foam pad, and you can use a couch cushion as well. Same thing, don't let them touch, arms across the chest. When that becomes easy— and I usually shoot for 30 seconds to a minute on most of these— if you're If you really want to take it to the next level, you can use this device called Slack Block.
