Do Balance Exercises At Work

Try Balance Exercises While At Work

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

     Since our days are often busy, sometimes it is necessary to multitask activities like including balance exercises  while at work. Please see http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now For office workers, one idea to include balance exercises in your day involves repeatedly getting up from a chair 10 times in a row, which can be useful for both steadiness and strengthening leg muscles that are essential in balance skills. When first standing up, however, it is important to center your weight in the middle of your arches. By using that balance point, you will avoid the common problem of getting up from a chair and leaning too far forwards, which can result in a fall. Additionally, you can alternate between getting up with your feet in wide stance, which provides more support, and getting up with a narrow stance with your feet touching, which is more challenging to your equilibrium. For many adults, it is much more difficult to maintain balance with a narrow base of support, so those little variations of narrow and wide base of support test your steadiness and coordination. For all of us, our balance system is very complex. Good balance also requires additional exercise for the nervous system. To maximize balance abilities, middle aged and older people should also be working with timing and coordination. An exercise that we instruct patients to do in our physical therapy clinic involves the "stepping pattern." We begin with having our patients stand with feet shoulder-width apart. Next, they put their right foot in front of the left, and shift weight onto the front foot so that the left heel is off the ground. The patient rehearses this movement technique ten times. The next step is repeating with the left foot in front of the right. This and other stability routines can be implemented while at work waiting for the elevator, on a phone call or while reading a document.

Balance Exercises At Work

   If life is too busy and crammed full of activities, you can practice balance exercises at work. Medical researchers have found that one way to make equilibrium routines more challenging is to set up a dual task exercise. For instance, if you try to stand on one foot and maintain your balance while you are simultaneously reading material or talking on the phone, you will be asking your brain to attend to two different stimuli, which is much more difficult and more challenging to your balance. Consequently, you can maximize practicing your balance skills as well as greatly reduce the time devoted to exercises by combining equilibrium routines with an additional task. You can learn these techniques and specific balance exercises by following the direction of a knowledgeable physical therapist in the exercise for balance dvd.

Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To make the most of your time, add the best balance exercises to your day at work by getting the Exercise For Balance DVD. The easy to follow Balance DVD is the perfect instructional tool to use at home or in a group setting. The comprehensive DVD is filled with the best balance and strength exercises needed to enhance fitness and to perform basic activities like walking, standing, stair climbing or to advance to high level activities like tennis, 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 the most of your busy day by starting balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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