Senior Balance Exercises For Real Life Situations

Senior Balance Exercises To Improve Safety

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

    Every day we encounter situations that can be challenging to our steadiness and practicing senior balance exercises beforehand can be essential to limit the possibility of falling and incurring an injury. Please see   http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now Many times we encounter situations at home that have the potential for creating a spill if we do not engage proper balance techniques. For instance, with reaching up into a high kitchen cupboard or down into a low bathroom cabinet, there is a risk of falling forwards or backwards if the individual is unable to control their weight shifting and moving center balance point.

Senior Balance Exercises For Every Day Living

Practicing senior balance exercises is an important component of daily living for individuals over the age of sixty years old. One aspect of equilibrium routines is learning proper balance training techniques. Concentrating on the sense of touch between our feet and the underlying surface is a specific part of balance training. By performing stability routines where you focus on the sense of touch between your feet and the floor, you begin to develop the necessary connections between your feet and the balance system in the brain which are needed for excellent stability. Another component of balance training is to adjust the width and stability of the base of support to make the balance exercise more challenging. The easiest form of balance training is to stand with feet shoulder width apart and eyes open on a solid, surface that does not move like tile or hardwood floors.  A more difficult balance exercise is to stand with one foot directly behind the other, touching heel to toe. In that tandem position, you are in what we as physical therapists  call a narrow base of support, much like a hiker on a trail or a person trying to walk down a narrow isle. That tandem position will really challenge your steadiness. Doing balance exercises in a tandem position will gradually improve ankle strength and speed of muscle contraction as well as general balance over time. Consequently, all balance training should include tandem balance exercises. you can practice these balance training strategies and senior balance exercises in the convenience of your own home with the exercise for balance dvd.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

     Learn to be safe at home with regular activities of daily living by beginning the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The professionally filmed Balance DVD is the perfect educational instrument to use at home or in a group setting. The easy to follow DVD is loaded with 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

Make each day safe by starting balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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