Tipping Toward Balance: A Fitness Trainer's Guide To Stability and Walking
by Tracy L. MarkleyPublish: Mar 19, 2018Advice & How ToBook Overview
In Tipping Toward Balance, A Fitness Trainers Guide to Stability and Walking, Tracy shares eight exercises and the reasons why these specific exercises have helped clients regain their balance. 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.Tracy shares eight specific exercises that 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 safe 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 to be strengthened
You do not have to exercise on the floor to strengthen your core. Learn how.
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!
American Book Fest - Best Book Award Finalist - 3rd Place in Health/Aging 50+ category
