Kathy Smith: First of all few facts about balance, your kinesthesis sense is your awareness of where you are in relationship up to the space around you, and that’s starts to diminish as we age, so its important to practice balance throughout the week. I am going to have Micheal and Louise, come on here and I am going to show you couple of things that are real simple to do. First of all is start with the supporting yourself on one leg. Lift up with the other leg and hold it there. Even doing that you are going to start to notice all the support muscles, all the stabilizing muscles are starting to connect which means you’re starting to strengthen your abdominals, strengthen the back, strengthen this whole area we called that core, or in Pilates we called the powerhouse.
Notice as I am doing this, I am starting to shake just a little bit and that recovery of having to keep myself on balanced, is what we want to practice every day. If you feel comfortable with this you take it to the next level, bring the leg little higher, take your arms up to the side, perhaps take them over head, and now here is the real challenge. You look up, while you are looking up with your hands over head, if you can, try closing your eyes. Okay, who is doing it, who is there, who is there, and who is there? Are they there, are they there, oh! My goodness look at that balance clean arrived all right.
But that’s how you start to just practice that every single day, because that’s called static. You’re starting from static position for static balance. Okay, let’s talk about dynamic balance so, let’s take something and catch your balance as we jumped to that point, if we jump over the point you catch your balance. Now imagine if you’re walking down the street, and you trap you need to catch yourself, so just jump in different positions jump forward, jump back in catch yourself.
This is more natural, this is more functional, this is what’s happening in life, if you are trebling if you playing a sport, if you playing tennis, so when you jump to that point try to hold up there 3-4 seconds and this will really give you good workout. Let me show you some equipment that will help and improve your balance. I want to show you first of all the exercise. Now Louise is going to demonstrate. Its unstable surface, so every time she tries to recover from loosing her balance, she has to use all the stabilizing muscles in your body. She is using her abdominals, she using her back she is using inner thigh, she wants to challenge herself little bit more wants to pick up one leg there. Here we go, this is the good toner for the abs, for the back and its real simple things to if she falls off she is in great walk to go.
Over here little more difficult exercise is the balance board. Now Micheal is going to show us because he was an expert of this, there is this one centre point touching the ground, and he is got to balance to make sure neither side of the board touches, trick with this, this is how you using the legs. He is going to use his belly; he is got to use his abdominals going to pull up using the core. Now he is doing so, good I want to tiled squat forming, try squatting down. that when-- was peace for right down right there slope he is using this spine muscles holder, holder recover now he is starting to shake but what he is doing right now, to strengthening and training all those muscles. Okay, this is my favorite piece of prepare right here down, it’s a BOSU and a BOSU not only can jump around on it, because its so unstable with this round a down surface you can really challenge yourself by doing things like first of all, again what we do in the further one leg is stuff, I want it I really have to focus is my power house lifting up here, when I take good at this, I can try two legged exercises while I turn, I do a 90 degree, okay again a quarter turn, okay let me tell you 180 for you.
Once you try that in 2 legs then you might want to tried on one get here, holding at there, and I can fill all those muscles working my leg, balance really helps to improve your strength, no matter what your age, it’s important to put in your weekly workout.
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