A Key Aspect of Exercise: Balance

Daily Health Tips Newsletter December 01, 2011 Know someone who'd enjoy this health tip? Forward this to a Friend! YOU MIGHT LIKE Cursing Reduces Pain Tai Chi Makes You Happy Warding Off Dementia Tasting What You Breathe Daily Natural Health Recommendations CONNECT WITH US  HEALTH PODCAST Strenuous Exercise Increases Dementia Risk in Women Find out how much exercise is "too much" in today's featured podcast. (13:48) Did you receive this email from a friend? Subscribe here to get your own copy! Want more natural health news and tips? Get our bi-weekly special report, direct from Jon Barron! Subscribe here and get two free books! Here is today's Daily Health Tip you requested!  If you'd like to forward this email, unsubscribe, or manage your subscription, click here. Today's Daily Health Tip Balance by Matt Anderson    One key aspect of exercise is balance. Why? Because like all other physical abilities, it diminishes with age unless we consciously exercise it. Is that a bad thing? Only if you fall down and break your hip or wrist. Here's a simple balance exercise you can do daily. It takes just a couple of minutes and will produce quick improvement. Stand while holding for support, with one hand, the back edge of a chair set beside you. Bend the leg nearest to the chair at the knee 90 degrees so that your knees are still together and the foot of the bent leg is projected out behind you. Get used to balancing on the one leg while holding the chair. Then turn to the other side and do the other leg. Once you can comfortably balance like this: Try taking your hand off the chair and balancing on the one leg without support from the chair. As you get more comfortable doing this, try to stop using your arms for balance and pull your hands in, palms together in front of your chest, like in a Far East prayer position. This will force the act of balance to the muscles of one leg. Once you can comfortably balance like this: Try closing your eyes and holding the pose for 30 seconds. If you really want to improve your balance, many yoga poses are specifically designed as balance poses, utilizing arms, legs, hips -- the entire body, in fact. On a more modern note, there's a whole new breed of vibrating-platform exercise-equipment that makes use of forcing you to balance while working out. The net effect is that because the balancing aspect forces you to use an entirely separate set of muscles in addition to your normal work out muscles, it dramatically accelerates the benefits of exercise. Exercise is an extremely important part of staying healthy. For more information, Click here. Liked this health tip? Pass it along to someone else who might enjoy it as well! Forward this email to a Friend! Find more great topics on natural health @ JonBarron.org! Health Topics | Detox Program | Health Articles | Programs | Podcasts   Copyright © 2002-2011 The Baseline of Health Foundation - All rights reserved. - Contact Us The Baseline of Health Foundation - 19360 Rinaldi St. Suite 370 Porter Ranch, CA 91326

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