Tipping Toward Balance
In Tipping Toward Balance, A Fitness Trainers Guide to Stability and Walking, Tracy shares eight exercises and the reasons why these exercises have helped clients regain their balance. Specific exercises and activities dedicated to help you stop tripping and falling and to regain the ability to feel safe in movement again.
As we age, specific injuries, and some diagnosis can cause someone to feel unbalanced, weak, and/or unstable in their walking gait. This leaves many prone to falls. Training the body and doing exercises that strengthen the correct muscles, proprioception and spatial awareness is Fall Prevention.
The eight specific exercises that Tracy shares have helped clients stop tripping and falling and to regain the ability to feel safe in movement again. In Tipping Toward balance Tracy shares some short stories of clients who all have assorted reasons for losing their balance and feeling unsafe in their daily footsteps.
In this book you will gain knowledge and learn exercises and tips to help you:
• Feel safer walking
• Avoid falls
• Regain and strengthen your spatial awareness
• Help people at any age, including kids, not to lose their balance system strength
• See muscle illustrations to help you understand the essential muscles needed to be strengthened
• You do not have to exercise on the floor to strengthen your core, learn other exercise and more.
A range of personal and specific factors may play a role in the body’s balance and walking gait as they become off-kilter. This leaves people feeling unsafe in their movements, which, in turn, causes the walking gait to change and slow down because they feel out of balance or unstable. At this point, individuals may find themselves tripping often and/or falling down. At any age, but often as we get older, the body can become weaker. That can be due to illness, lack of exercise, neurological challenges, or a diagnosed condition. In many of these cases, the body begins to move more slowly. You can feel unsafe in everyday movements, even just walking.
The center of the body, known as the core, must be built up in strength for the rest of the body to be able to perform movements at their best. Frequently, building core strength is thought to be achievable only when you get down on the floor and do crunches. Many clients with weakness or stability issues do not feel safe getting down to the floor. Consequently, that leaves them thinking it is a lost cause to attempt to strengthen the core muscles. Thankfully, this is not the truth.
AWARD WINNING BOOK!
2022 “Best Book” Awards Finalist
Tracy's book:"Tipping Toward Balalnce, A Fitness Trainer's Guide to Stability and Walking" was an honored finalist in the category Health: Aging/50+
Placed 3rd in Health: Aging/50+
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