Be Safe Weeding With Balance Exercises

Safe Outdoor Activities Start With Balance Exercises

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

     Being safe while gardening and weeding in the yard is essential for fun outdoor activities and performing a program including daily balance exercises can help. Please see http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now  Summer fun can encompass many outdoor events including

-picnics

-barbeques

-croquettes

-golf

-bocci ball

-gardening

-weeding

    Each of these activities involve a great challenge to ones stability and a possible risk of falling and incurring a debilitating injury like a broken wrist or hip. Consequently, before engaging in any of these activities, it is imperative to learn certain stability strategies and rehearse specific balance exercises to improve steadiness and limit the potential for falling.

Balance Exercises For Outdoor Activities

      The first step to staying safe with outdoor events is to practice balance exercises to advance steadiness and reduce any risk of falling. One of the basic principles to good stability is learning to control how you move  your body weight within what is called your base of support. The foundation established by the area under your feet while in a standing position is called your base of support. Additionally, while in standing, your body weight must remain within your base of support in order to stay on your feet and avoid a fall. To learn how to recognize your body weight and how to move it safely within your base of support, start with standing with your feet shoulder width a part. Next, slowly shift your weight forwards into your toes and then slowly shift your body weight into your heels. Next. move your body weight side to side from your right foot to your left foot. As you control your body weight during these movements, you will begin to strengthen the natural balance reactions at your ankles, which help with stability. For an outdoor activity like weeding, you need to be able to shift your body weight into your toes without falling forwards. As a result, it is essential to practice these stability techniques of controlling your body weight shifting within your base of support. You can also advance to specific balance exercises that will advance your steadiness as well as reduce the possibility of a fall. You can learn these detailed stability strategies and an appropriate sequence of balance exercises developed by an experienced Physical Therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To enjoy outdoor activities this summer, please begin the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The Exercise For Balance DVD is the perfect Balance DVD to use at home or in a group setting. The Exercise For Balance DVD is loaded with the best balance and strength exercises needed to enhance fitness and to perform basic activities like grocery shopping, weeding, walking, standing, stair climbing or to advance to high level activities like golf,  dancing and hiking. In the Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve balance, steadiness 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

Be safe this summer by starting balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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