So What Exactly are Balance Exercises?
You may be familiar with the concepts behind cardiovascular and strength training, but balance exercises are quite different. The purpose behind balance training is to teach your brain how to quickly activate the right muscles in your body at the right time to pull you in the right direction and keep you upright.
- You don’t need to work up a sweat. Since we’re training the brain more than the muscles, you won’t get tired and your heart rate won’t rise.
- You don’t need to go to the health club. You can do balance exercises at home when it’s convenient for you.
- You don’t need to buy any expensive equipment. During balance training, the only equipment you need is a floor to stand on.
- You don’t need to set aside hours and hours of time. The exercises only take about 10 minutes a day.
Meet Your “Balance Coach”
Hi. My name is Mike Ross. As an exercise physiologist at a hospital-based health and fitness center, I’ve worked with seniors through personal training, classes, lectures, and consultations.Over the years, I noticed that while a lot of people do cardiovascular exercise for their heart and strength training for their muscles, almost no one does any exercises to train their balance and help prevent falls.
Yet according to the Center for Disease Control, falling is the most common cause of injury in people over 60. These falls can result in broken bones, hospital visits, bills, and even a loss of independence.
I realized that if you could train your heart and muscles, you should also be able to train your balance. So I started developing and experimenting with different exercise designed to challenge the sense of balance.
I wanted people to be able to do the balance exercises without my supervision, so I knew they had to be simple and safe, and I didn’t want people to have to buy any equipment, either. I kept all of this in mind as I developed my exercises.
Over the next three years, during hundreds of hands-on training sessions with seniors, I tweaked each exercise over and over again to find the right combination of safety, simplicity, and effectiveness.
Finally, I organized the exercises into a system and started running a class called "Better Balance for Seniors." When so many of my "students" told me the exercises were helpful, cutting-edge, and even fun, I knew I had to share my system with more people.
That’s why I developed The Balance Manual. I want to help you train your balance and reduce your risk of falling.
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The Balance Manual will show you:
- How your balance works.
- Why balance tends to get worse as you age.
- How to safely do balancing exercises at home with no equipment.
- How to improve your leg strength with five simple exercises to help prevent falls.
- How to reduce your risk of falling at home.
| "I recommend these exercises to all who want to improve their balance. Simply put, they allow me to do so much more, and I feel better." -Joe M., 73 |
What Would Better Balance Mean to You?
Better balance can help you:
- Reduce your chances of falling.
- Live an active life.
- Stay independent.
- Keep up with your friends and family.
- Walk more confidently with a decreased fear of falling.
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