Music Based Senior Balance Exercises

Put Senior Balance Exercises To Music

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

   Motivating older individuals to exercise can sometimes be a challenge and putting music to senior balance exercises is one way to improve their enjoyment and effectiveness. Please see     http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now The folks who are in their sixties, seventies and eighties have shown us that they love music and they love to dance. Medical researchers have completed studies that prove the effectiveness of adding music to stability routines. Melany Hars, et all in their research study, Effect of music-based multitask training on cognition and mood in older adults, looked at the beneficial outcomes in stability, fitness, mood and cognition for those senior citizens who participated in programs that included exercise and music. In their study, 134 community-dwellers aged ≥65 years at increased risk for falling were randomly assigned to either an intervention group (n = 66) who attended once weekly 1-h supervised group classes of multitask exercises, executed to the rhythm of piano music, or a control group with delayed intervention (n = 68) who maintained usual lifestyle habits, for 6 months. The researchers determined that six months of once weekly music-based multitask training was associated with improved stability, cognitive function and decreased anxiety in community-dwelling older adults, compared with non-exercising controls.

Combine Music With Senior Balance Exercises

      For those in the older population, adding music to senior balance exercises can make their fitness programs fun and beneficial. Music adds a component of mood elevation, release of positive neurotransmitters in the brain and enhancement of overall energy levels and quality of life. Music can be combined with certain steadiness routines to advance balance abilities and reduce the possibility of a fall. As an example, you can add your favorite music to a simple routine of stepping forwards, stepping backwards, stepping sideways and in a circle to the rhythm of the music. By adding music, you will challenge your balance and coordination, weight shifting skills and sensory feedback from the feet to the balance center in the brain. Additionally, practicing equilibrium exercises to music can have an added benefit of improving cardiovascular fitness and overall general health. You can learn the appropriate senior balance exercises by following along with an experienced Physical Therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD. Then, just add music!

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    To get started on adding music to the best balance exercises, get the Exercise For Balance DVD. The professionally filmed Exercise For Balance DVD is an exceptional instructional DVD to use at home or in a group setting. The Exercise For Balance DVD includes  the best balance and strength exercises needed to enhance senior fitness and to perform basic activities like cleaning house, walking, standing, stair climbing or to advance to high level activities like dancing, playing bocce ball and hiking. In the comprehensive Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve balance, steadiness techniques and balance routines from a balance instructor --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

Get your groove on and add music to balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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