Balance Exercises And Midlife Fitness

Balance Exercises Enhance Middle Age Fitness

By Suzanne Stoke, Physical Therapist @ Exercise For Balance via www.exerciseforbalance.com/

Starting balance exercises in our middle ages can lead to better fitness and better overall health in our later years. Please see   http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now A recent study that was published revealed the many benefits of starting an exercise program in our middle age years. In a nutshell, being fit in our 50's and 60's leads to better overall health as we age in our later years. The recent study explains that fitness in middle age points to less chronic health problems in later life. Additionally, even those who died in old age, seemed to have less of these chronic ailments right up to the end. The study involved both senior men and women, older than 65, who were Medicare patients. The study was published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. The research was by Benjamin L. Willis, M.D., M.P.H., of the Cooper Institute, Dallas, and colleagues. They examined the association between midlife fitness and chronic disease outcomes later in life by linking Medicare claims with participant data from the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study, a large group of individuals who were examined at the Cooper Clinic from 1970 to 2009. The study of 14,726 healthy men and 3,944 healthy women, with an average age of 49, when they entered the study, used eight chronic conditions for the analysis: congestive heart failure, ischemic heart disease, stroke, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, Alzheimer disease, and colon or lung cancer. “In the present study, higher fitness measured in midlife was strongly associated with a lower incidence of chronic conditions decades later,” the authors note. Compared with participants with lower midlife fitness, those with higher midlife fitness appeared to spend a greater proportion of their final five years of life with a lower burden of chronic conditions," the authors comment. Dr. Bild, acknowledges in that in the commentary, Thriving of the Fittest, the researchers do provide “further evidence for physical fitness as a contributor to healthy aging and the compression of morbidity.” Acknowledging that ‘fitness may be a key to healthy aging.’ Bild notes that “fitness is a function of both exercise and genetics.” “Because genetics likely plays a role in longevity and certainly plays a role in disease avoidance, if some of the same genes are involved in longevity and fitness, they may serve as major co-founders in the attractive interpretation that exercise leads to fitness, which leads to healthy aging,” Bild continues. One of the main components of a fitness program is balance exercises.

Balance Exercises For a Middle Age Fitness Program

Incorporating balance exercises in a fitness program is an excellent way to develop needed stability, strength, and endurance for living a healthy life in later years. By beginning with equilibrium routines, you can establish good balance abilities that are necessary for an outdoor walking program, golf, tennis, lifting weights at the gym walking on the treadmill and much more. In fact, stability exercises can be combined with weight lifting routines to maximize balance skills and strengthen core muscles to their greatest potential. One example of combining steadiness exercises and weight lifting is to perform a lunge where you step one foot in front of the other while simultaneously doing a bicep curl with free weights. This combination exercise will develop good stability, core muscle strength and bicep muscle strength. To follow along with balance exercise developed by an experienced Physical Therapist, get the Exercise For Balance DVD. You will be able to work out safely in the comfort of your own home.

Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To get started on a midlife fitness program, begin the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The Balance DVD is designed for you to use at home or in a group setting. The DVD contains  the best balance and strength exercises needed to enhance senior fitness and to perform basic activities like walking, standing, stair climbing or to advance to high level activities like dancing and hiking. In the Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve balance, balance techniques and balance routines from a balance trainer (licensed Physical Therapist) who has worked with balance and dizziness disorders for over 20 years. Get your copy of the Exercise For Balance DVD by clicking on the BUY NOW button

In your early years, start balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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