How Stretching Helps Balance Exercises

Add Stretches  To Balance Exercises

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

Balance exercises are important to practice on a regular basis, especially as we get older. Please see  http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now To help prevent muscle and joint pain and to maximize your balance  abilities, it is essential to stretch every day. Whether you are a professional runner or a sitter, it is critical to stretch on a regular, daily basis. Professional runners use their muscles by contracting them over and over. Long term sitters use their postural muscles hour after hour, which can shorten and tighten them.  Prolonged running and sitting can be detrimental to your muscles if you do not stretch them on a regular basis. One of the consequences of tight and painful muscles includes poor performance with balance. By practicing appropriate stretches and stability exercises, you will enhance steadiness with all your movement activities.

Stretching And Balance Exercises

Balance exercises can be more effective if they are combined with the right stretching routines. Having strong and flexible calf muscles allows your balance reactions at the ankles to perform at their optimal potential. Since the calf muscles are essential for good balance, it is important to stretch those muscle every day to keep them working  at their maximal potential. One of the best ways to stretch the calf muscles is to perform the "Runner's Stretch". This stretch involves standing with one foot behind the other and leaning forward to stretch the calf muscle on the back leg. For best results, you should hold this position for 30 seconds and repeat the stretch three times. The "Runner's Stretch" can be rehearsed at a counter or door and followed by equilibrium exercises.  Teaching home exercise programs is one of the cornerstones of physical therapy treatments. Consequently, these exercises and balance routines, that have been developed and instructed by an experienced Physical Therapist, can be practiced in the convenience of your own home with the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To begin a home exercise program of excellent stretches and the best balance exercises, get  the Exercise For Balance DVD. The Exercise For Balance DVD is simply designed to use at home or in a group setting. The comprehensive Balance DVD is filled with all the necessary  balance and strength exercises needed to enhance general fitness and to perform basic activities like walking, standing, stair climbing or to advance to high level activities like playing sports, 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

Start topnotch stretches and balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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