10 Reasons the SlackBoard Is the Only Fitness Buy That Gets Used Every Day

By Sarah Enjem3 min read

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Summary: Kids, parents and grandparents, same living room, same board. Better balance and a stronger core from something nobody has to be talked into.


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No discipline required

1. It's fun enough that you forget it's exercise

Every other balance trainer you bought is in a closet. This one's a game, so ten minutes a day takes zero discipline.

Woman balancing on a SlackBoard at home
Results in days, not weeks

2. Most people feel a difference in the first week

Not a twelve-week program. Reviewers report standing three seconds on day one and holding steady by day seven. In under a week you'll notice the difference stepping off a curb.

Man doing a lunge on a SlackBoard
Core, glutes and hips

3. Your core, glutes and hips do the real work

Every micro-correction fires your deep stabilizers, glutes and hip flexors at once, which is why people buy it for balance and get blindsided by the abs.

Feel It Everywhere Tomorrow

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Proprioception training

4. It trains the stabilizers therapists spend months on

Proprioception is what keeps your ankle from rolling, and almost nothing at home trains it. PTs use the SlackBoard for post-surgery ankle and knee recovery.

Train What You Actually Lost

SlackBoard on its stand in a kitchen
Always out, always used

5. It looks like art on the stand, so it never gets put away

This is the whole secret. Stood upright, it's a piece of furniture. Flat on the floor, it's a 60-second workout you walk past ten times a day. Gear you have to dig out is gear you stop using.

Leave It Out. Use It Daily.

Kids playing on a SlackBoard
One board, whole household

6. You'll end up fighting your kids for it

Buy it for yourself and your ten-year-old claims it. Buy it for the kids and you're on it after they're in bed. It's the rare thing grandparents and grandkids use the same afternoon.

One Board, Whole Household

SlackBoard Plus in the Waves finish
Beyond the wobble board

7. A SlackBoard isn't a balance board. It's the level above it

Wobble boards pivot, so once you can stand on one, you're done. A SlackBoard puts a live, tensioned line on solid hardwood that never stops moving.

Step Up From the Wobble Board

Man balancing on a SlackBoard at home
Easiest thing to get back

8. Balance is the first thing you lose and the easiest to get back

It erodes from your forties on, quietly, until a curb surprises you. It also comes back faster than strength or cardio: a few minutes a day.

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3,500+ verified reviews

9. Nine out of ten owners give it five stars

3,500+ verified reviews and a 91% five-star rate across four years, and the most common sentence in all of them is some version of I use it every day.

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