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It's the primary way to prevent falls. Balance training also incorporates muscle strength and improves endurance, and with consistency, speed up reaction times. It improves joint stability through increasing muscle strength around the joints, which in turn lowers your risk for injury. Working daily on your balance reduces your risk of falling and it’s the one thing you don’t have to lose with age.
How can you improve your balance?
1. Walking, hiking, stairs strengthens the muscles in your lower body.
2. Pilates strengthens your core and teaches you correct ways to move.
3. Progressive balance exercises begins to train your body in how to react to outside stimuli.
The more you work on balance (daily), the more your body remembers what it needs to do to keep you upright. When you stop balance exercises, you lose it.
Where do you begin?
Stand in front of a mirror and place equal weight on both feet. Make yourself 2" taller. Then shift your weight from your ankle to your head over to one leg so your trunk/pelvis/shoulders are all in 1 line. Once on one leg, you should feel your buttocks tighten up to hold you there. If you decide to try to lift the foot off the floor, get even taller as you do this and you will feel the abdominals kick in too.
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Happy Balancing!
Cynthia
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