SOLEC

It’s rare someone comes in and doesn’t say that need to work on balance. Balance is a tricky thing to train, because you need to challenge your balance in order to train it. I learned this acronym last week, and it’s something you should know, and it’s a great balance test you can try today.

SOLEC stands for Standing on One Leg Eyes Closed.

That’s the test. Stand on one leg with your eyes closed, see how long you can last.

Your eyes play a big role in balancing and when you take that away it’s much more difficult.

Try the test with your eyes open and compared to your eyes closed score.

There are a lot of different ranges for a good target time here. At least a few seconds eyes closed is the bare minimum and getting 15 seconds with eyes closed is the gold standard.

Justin Miner

@justinminergain