G'day everyone, welcome back to another exercise video. I'm Mike,
physiotherapist and your seniors health and fitness coach and what I'm taking you through today are 5 balance exercises.
Now, balance is important to practice as we get older to ensure
we're moving well and to ensure we prevent falls.
So, I'm going to get through 5 exercises
which progressively get harder
and I'm going to show you how you can make these exercises a little bit easier if you have trouble with them.
Okay!
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Okay, enough chat for me,
let's get into the exercises.
Standing tall next to a chair for safety and support, stand with your feet, hip-width apart.
Try standing in this position as long as directed and if unable,
keep track of your time. If you find this exercise a little too easy,
you can close your eyes to progress it and make it a little more challenging.
You can also try this exercise with an unstable surface such as a cushion
or you can add a task such as bouncing a ball.
Standing tall next to your chair, place your feet as close together as they can go and take your hand off the chair.
Hold this position for as long as directed and if unable, keep track of your time.
If you find this exercise a little too easy, you can close your eyes to progress it and make it a little more challenging.
You can also try this exercise with an unstable surface such as a cushion
or you can add a task such as bouncing a ball.
You can make this task further challenging by standing on the unstable surface with your eyes closed.
Standing next to a chair for safety and stability reasons,
place one foot in front of the other foot with the big toe of the back foot in the groove of the front foot.
Hold this position for as long as directed and if unable,
keep track of your time. When you've completed the set time, change feet.
If you find this exercise a little too easy, you can close your eyes to progress it and make it a little more challenging.
You can also try this exercise with an unstable surface such as a cushion
or you can add a task such as bouncing a ball.
Standing next to a chair for safety and stability,
place one foot directly in front of the other foot
with the toes of one foot almost touching the heel of the other foot.
Ensure your feet are not splayed out and your toes are facing towards the front.
Hold this position for as long as
directed and if unable, keep track of your time.
When you've completed the set time, change feet.
If you are feeling quite unsteady with this exercise, you can use two chairs with one on the other side of you.
To make this exercise more challenging, you can close your eyes and practice holding for the set time.
You can also try this exercise with an unstable surface such as a cushion
or you can add a task such as bouncing a ball.
Standing next to a chair for safety and stability, stand on one leg,
hold this position for as long as directed and if unable, keep track of your time.
When you've completed the set time,
change feet. If you are feeling quite unsteady with this exercise,
you can use 2 chairs and one on the other side of you.
To make this exercise more challenging, you can close your eyes and practice holding for the set time.
You can also try this exercise with an unstable surface such as a cushion
or you can add a task such as bouncing a ball.
If you find you're quite unsteady on your feet,
you can make your balance easier by starting with two hands on a chair and
practicing the same positions.
You can then progress to one hand and then once confident at ease, move to one finger
and then eventually no hands on the chair.
And there you have it!
Too important exercises to improve your balance.
Now, remember the more you practice your balance, the better
it's going to get.
So you just going to trust me on that and stay consistent with it.
Slowly progress it, your balance will get better.
I hope you enjoyed that video guys.
If you've got any questions, you can shoot me an email at mike@morelifehealth.com
or join or unjoin our Facebook support community. I am in that group as well as many many great people.
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I'll catch you next time. Thanks for following along!