Talk:BOSU

Desperately needs picture now

This needs a picture. Desperately. It's an eagerly desired device for developing balance. Just including a picture will show how unique this is, and should eliminate the crying template saying it's not note-worthy. They sell for 220$ in Canada, maybe if you're lucky 160$. I tried it out briefly at my chiropractors office, it's really difficult to stand on. Usually I enjoy these kinds of challenges. Please, don't delete this article for this reason. Maybe it could rewritten to demphasize the highly propriety-seeming "BOSU Balance Trainer" so early in the article, perhaps using more generic wording earlier, relegating that name to a later footnote. I don't know, I'm not really familiar with the subject. It might be a month or two before I may have the opportunity to take a picture of my doctor's with my cellphone camera, I rarely get that room. Nastajus 17:24, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Pick. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.23.52.20 (talk) 08:36, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

There's been a picture for years now I'm taking the tag off.--Prisencolinensinainciusol (talk) 21:10, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Criticism needs work

The criticism section has no references clearly referring to BOSU.

Very little controlled research on healthy populations has been done on training with the BOSU ball or other unstable surfaces, but many find their use extremely ineffective, and can actually hamper performance.<ref name="Personal Trainers Exposed">[http://sfbfitness.com/training/personal-trainers-exposed-part-1/ Personal Trainers Exposed]</ref> One study found a group of college level soccer players improved their sprinting performance less with the use of unstable surface training than with traditional training methods.<ref name="The effects of ten weeks of lower-body unstable surface training on markers of athletic performance.">[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17530966 The effects of ten weeks of lower-body unstable surface training on markers of athletic performance] Cressey EM, West CA, Tiberio DP, Kraemer WJ, Maresh CM.</ref>

The first link is a dead line (web hosting site) with nothing found at http://web.archive.org, and the second is an abstract of a primary source about a specific kind of training, and the abstract at least makes no reference to BOSU.

I've removed those sources, left only the first half sentence, and added {{expand section}}. --Chriswaterguy talk 05:54, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

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