Publisher's Synopsis
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
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 Bood Fest - Best Book Award Finalist - 3rd Place in Health/Aging 50+ catagory