Active Lifestyles And Senior Balance Exercises

Senior Balance Exercises For Active Older Adults

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

  Being physically active is an essential component of healthy living and can be bolstered by performing specific senior balance exercises on a daily basis. Please see    http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now In general, physical activity, which includes an active lifestyle and routine exercise, plus eating well, is the best way to stay healthy. Healthcare providers like doctors, physical therapists, nurses and occupational therapists all recommend staying physically active through fitness programs that include strengthening  exercises, balance exercises and cardiovascular fitness exercises. Additionally, health professionals recommend that an effective exercise program needs to be fun and keep you motivated. To stay physically fit, helps to have a goal.

Your goal might be to:

• Manage a health condition

• Reduce stress

• Improve your stamina

• Buy clothes in a smaller size

To make the most of an exercise program, you can add a way for you to socialize. As an example, taking exercise classes or exercising with a friend while watching a DVD are both good ways to be social.

You may have a hard time starting an exercise routine, but once you do start, you will begin to notice other benefits:

• Better control of your weight and appetite

• Improved fitness, making it easier to do everyday activities

• Improved sleep

• More confidence in yourself

• Lower risk for heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure

 The best way to start an exercise program is to begin with certain senior balance exercises to build a strong platform of stability.

Senior Balance Exercises For The Active Individual

  The first step towards a healthy, active lifestyle is starting a regime of daily  senior balance exercises. Medical researchers have shown that performing equilibrium routines every day boost significant balance criteria including the speed and strength of balance reactions at the ankles, leg strength in key lower extremity muscles, sensory feedback from the feet to the balance center in the brain and improved postural alignment to reduce the risk of falling forwards. Balance training can be easily done on a daily basis by following the direction of a knowledgeable Physical Therapist who presents a step by step demonstration of senior balance exercises in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    Stay active and healthy by starting the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The healthcare provider recommended Exercise For Balance DVD is an excellent educational DVD to use at home or in a group setting. The easy to follow Exercise For Balance DVD is complete with  a step by step series of the best balance and strength exercises needed to enhance senior fitness and to perform basic activities like shopping, walking, standing, stair climbing or to advance to high level activities like skiing, dancing and hiking. In the  comprehensive Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve stability, steadiness techniques and balance routines from a balance instructor --- licensed Physical Therapist)---who has worked with balance and dizziness disorders for over 25 years. Get your copy of the Exercise For Balance DVD by clicking on the BUY NOW button

Be active by beginning balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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