Tipping Toward Balance: A Fitness Trainer's Guide to Stability and Walking - Softcover

Markley, Tracy L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1986552810 ISBN 13: 9781986552813

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

In this book I share eight exercises and the reasons why they have helped clients regain their balance.These particular exercises have helped clients stoptripping and falling and to regain the ability to feel safe in movement again. I also share some short stories of clients who all have various reasons for losing their balance.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 ...

About this title

From the Author

I had many clients coming to me who has began to trip and or has falling down. They have lost their spatial awareness. This is the awareness to where their body is in space. For example when walking and having to step over an object on the ground and not clearing the object with the foot step either in the height of the step or the distance of clearing the object.  This can be relearned again. I live where there are beautiful hiking trails in the forest and many seniors have come to me who enjoy their walking paths in nature, but they had begun tripping and/or falling on the tree roots on the trails. This book is filled with knowledge and exercise to help rebuild the spatial awareness and balancing system in the body so one can feel safe in movements again and continue to enjoy activities again. This is an excellent "Fall Prevention Book", (Guide) and works wonderfully with those in stroke recovery and other balance and stability weakness and challenges.

From the Back Cover

Stop Tripping and Falling Down.Start Feeling Safe in Movement Again.In Tipping Toward Balance, Tracy brings hope to those who have balance and walking challenges. these challenges can greatly affect a person's quality of life. In these pages, you will read the stories of several clients who lives have been changed for the better because Tracy help them to improve their balance.  Included in the book are 8 important exercises for anyone who wants to feel more stable when they strand and walk, Along with descriptions of why each exercise works.This book is for the person looking to improve balance and walking ability, as well as for fitness trainers and other practitioners who are working with these clients. The muscles illustrations and exercise explanations provide information that will help everyone tip toward a better balance.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1986552810
• ISBN 13: 9781986552813
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 118