Studying Longevity And Senior Balance Exercises

Senior Balance Exercises For Longer Lives

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

   More recently, medical researchers have been investigating the components to long and healthy living, including having older adults participate in fitness programs and senior balance exercises. Please see more at  http://www.exerciseforbalance.com/buy-now Living life to the fullest is a goal of many aging individuals as they enter their Golden Years. Lately, a large body of literature has arrived on the scene to elucidate the components of a healthy quality of life in later years. As an example,  research findings looked at whether or not long life and healthy aging are familial traits. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Twin Study, for instance, found extreme longevity has a relatively low inheritance (about 20 percent, although the genetic effect tends to be higher at older ages) while maintaining physical function in late life appears highly inheritable (50 to 60 percent). However, the study did not identify the specific factors contributing to longevity and healthy aging. According to the National Institute on Aging-supported New England Centenarian Study, centenarians (individuals 100 years and older) can be divided into three groups: "survivors," 42 percent of the study population; "delayers," 45 percent of the study population; and "escapers," 13 percent of the study population. Survivors had an age-related disease before age 80, delayers were not diagnosed with an age-related disease until after age 80, and escapers reached year 100 without ever having an age-related disease. In the IDEAL study, scientists will focus on individuals able to delay or evade disease and disability into their eighties — the delayers and the rare escapers. Researchers have found that one of the common threads for healthy living in later years is participating in physical activities including senior balance exercises that help to reduce the risk of an injury.

Senior Balance Exercises For Healthy Living

    By avoiding the possibility of a fall and injury from falling through performing regular senior balance exercises, aging individuals are able to maintain an active and healthier lifestyle well into their Golden Years. Examples of equilibrium routines include walking along a line in a heel to toe manner for dynamic stability or standing on one leg for about twenty seconds to build static steadiness. You can learn how to perform these senior balance exercises and other static and dynamic routines by following the instruction form a qualified Physical Therapist in the Exercise For Balance DVD.

Senior Balance Exercises In The Exercise For Balance DVD

    For optimal healthy living, get started on a course of the best balance exercises with the Exercise For Balance DVD. The healthcare provider recommended Exercise For Balance DVD is a high quality instructional DVD to use at home or in a group setting. The easy to understand and simple to follow Exercise For Balance DVD includes  a step by step series of the latest balance and strength exercises necessary to optimize senior fitness and to carry out basic daily activities like shopping, doing laundry,  walking, standing, cleaning house, stair climbing or to advance to more difficult pursuits like skiing, dancing, playing golf and hiking. In the  comprehensive Exercise For Balance DVD, you will learn how to improve stability, how to apply steadiness techniques and how to safely execute balance routines from a  qualified balance specialist --- 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

Take steps towards longevity by starting balance exercises today with the Exercise For Balance DVD to improve balance and prevent falls.
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