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Boost Your Balance: The Authoritative Guide To Senior Exercise For Improving Fitness, Defying Aging, And Preventing Falls
Falls can have devastating effects on older adults, so prevention is key! If you are interested in improving your balance, boosting your fitness, and defying aging processes, then this all-in-one guide is for you. This book will provide you with the required tools to take matters into your own hands! Boost Your Balance • Teach you how we balance and prevent falls, and why falls may occur in seniors • Show you how specific training can improve your balance • Educate you about principles of exercise for seniors • Provide you with a unique, easy-to-follow 4-week training program combining strength, flexibility, coordination, and balance exercises • Enable you to independently perform and modify your training for long term success Use this book and the included training program to disrupt aging, improve your health, and optimize balance for more safety and better quality of life!
138 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 8, 2021
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June 27, 2021
Boost Your Balance is filled with non-intimidating exercises to increase people’s strength and flexibility as well as their balance.
The book contains 67 exercises though some have variations to make them more difficult as your fitness improves. Thirty-one are for flexibility. Twenty are for strength. Sixteen are for balance. The exercises start ridiculously easy (sitting in a chair, lying on a mat) and progress gradually to planks and lunges. Many of the exercises are done in chairs and so can be done by wheelchair-bound or standing-challenged seniors too. Each exercise has a clear picture showing the movement. There is also a four-week plan of thrice weekly exercises to get you started.
The year is half over. My New Year’s Resolution of more exercise is dusty sitting on its shelf. My Ring Fit Switch game sits lonely beside it. The exercises here are a way to increase my balance, flexibility and strength but also fulfill my resolution. It’s a win-win!
Boost Your Balance is great for the seniors in your life. Everyone needs some simple workout routines. 5 stars and a favorite!
Thanks to the author for a copy in exchange for my honest review.
The book contains 67 exercises though some have variations to make them more difficult as your fitness improves. Thirty-one are for flexibility. Twenty are for strength. Sixteen are for balance. The exercises start ridiculously easy (sitting in a chair, lying on a mat) and progress gradually to planks and lunges. Many of the exercises are done in chairs and so can be done by wheelchair-bound or standing-challenged seniors too. Each exercise has a clear picture showing the movement. There is also a four-week plan of thrice weekly exercises to get you started.
The year is half over. My New Year’s Resolution of more exercise is dusty sitting on its shelf. My Ring Fit Switch game sits lonely beside it. The exercises here are a way to increase my balance, flexibility and strength but also fulfill my resolution. It’s a win-win!
Boost Your Balance is great for the seniors in your life. Everyone needs some simple workout routines. 5 stars and a favorite!
Thanks to the author for a copy in exchange for my honest review.
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May 2, 2023Supported my Grandma :)
My grandma is in her 80s with inflamed ankles who can barely walk these days and squatting to sit on the toilet is an issue for her and I have never in my entire life seen her exercise. Ever. I want her to have a few more years in her and showed her this book. She said she was willing to start if I join her and we do this together. I had to start REALLY slow with her. We started with the different types of stances and her just standing up and going from one to other slowly with assistance. Slowly we decreased the support level and had her standing on one leg. We haven't gotten to unstable surfaces yet but this is a slow and steady process that I am happy to report!
The main thing I learned is to support her with starting super small but doing it consistently. It's become a daily habit for us to get together and do something to support her balance and little by little she is gaining a bit of balancing strength and feeling more confident to move forward. Excited to continue and see how far she can go!
My grandma is in her 80s with inflamed ankles who can barely walk these days and squatting to sit on the toilet is an issue for her and I have never in my entire life seen her exercise. Ever. I want her to have a few more years in her and showed her this book. She said she was willing to start if I join her and we do this together. I had to start REALLY slow with her. We started with the different types of stances and her just standing up and going from one to other slowly with assistance. Slowly we decreased the support level and had her standing on one leg. We haven't gotten to unstable surfaces yet but this is a slow and steady process that I am happy to report!
The main thing I learned is to support her with starting super small but doing it consistently. It's become a daily habit for us to get together and do something to support her balance and little by little she is gaining a bit of balancing strength and feeling more confident to move forward. Excited to continue and see how far she can go!
July 1, 2023
Fascinating!
I’m normally not a fan of ebooks formatted as picture books (i.e. not flowable). But the combination of diagrams and quote boxes makes a formatted PDF version worth the inconvenience of fixed formatting.
The exercises were good, but my favorite part was the science/biology-based description of all the elements that contribute to our sense of balance as it really clarifies how the aging process can affect each element.
Wish list request: It would be helpful if pages 50-55 were provided as a printable PDF (the exercises recommended by day and week). The pages that follow have the detailed descriptions of the exercises, one exercise per page. But once you learn the exercises and their names, the summary schedule would make a wonderful checklist.
I’m normally not a fan of ebooks formatted as picture books (i.e. not flowable). But the combination of diagrams and quote boxes makes a formatted PDF version worth the inconvenience of fixed formatting.
The exercises were good, but my favorite part was the science/biology-based description of all the elements that contribute to our sense of balance as it really clarifies how the aging process can affect each element.
Wish list request: It would be helpful if pages 50-55 were provided as a printable PDF (the exercises recommended by day and week). The pages that follow have the detailed descriptions of the exercises, one exercise per page. But once you learn the exercises and their names, the summary schedule would make a wonderful checklist.
June 8, 2023
It’s a great book! I’m a personal trainer and work with people from various ages.
The book is very informative, it has a ton of example stretches, exercises and their benefits.
I have definitely applied this knowledge, and exercises in my workout plans for my clients. I highly recommend this book to everyone, even if you are not in the fitness industry. This book is beneficial for everyone.
The book is very informative, it has a ton of example stretches, exercises and their benefits.
I have definitely applied this knowledge, and exercises in my workout plans for my clients. I highly recommend this book to everyone, even if you are not in the fitness industry. This book is beneficial for everyone.
April 25, 2023
Comprehensive yet easy to follow
I loved this book. The pictures make every exercise easy to master. The workout you get from this simple movements is amazing. A valuable addition to anyone’s library.
I loved this book. The pictures make every exercise easy to master. The workout you get from this simple movements is amazing. A valuable addition to anyone’s library.
May 10, 2023
In the e ND it drops the ball
I thought the the first 2 chapters were very enlightening but when it came to exercises to solve the problems it came up lame. They can be found at any yoga class.
I thought the the first 2 chapters were very enlightening but when it came to exercises to solve the problems it came up lame. They can be found at any yoga class.
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