Falling Is Not An Option: A Way to Lifelong Balance

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The photographs he includes are quite helpful and make working through the Postural Retraining Routine doable.

If you are the author, please login to your Author Area where you can update all of your links and other information. In this book, he shares exercises, and the principles behind them, for maintaining balance and moving with fluidity and strength. Because of its focus on developing and maintaining automatic balance skills, Falling Is Not an Option: A Way to Lifelong Balance is a resource both for health professionals and for their patients. If you have older relatives, you will completely understand the problems that arise when a loved one suffers a fall.Including instructions and clearly depicted exercises, everyone has the opportunity to enjoy an upright and fall-free life!

Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you.The exercises are so easy to follow and I believe anyone can gain something from this book to improve overall mobility, bone structure, or posture. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free.

The book also introduces Postural Retraining™, a unique series of balance and stability exercises inspired by T’ai Chi. What are the myths and misconceptions of balance, how can you maintain a strong posture, and what are the common reasons for the deterioration of balance as you get older? Overall, I would highly recommend Falling Is Not an Option: A Way to Lifelong Balance to readers seeking gentle but very worthwhile improvements to their physical health in the long term.The glossary at the end of the book is the perfect addition that assists those who are unfamiliar with some of the words and terms used in the text. Falling Is Not an Option: A Way to Lifelong Balance is a work of non-fiction that offers advice and guidance for life in the health and fitness sub-genre and was penned by author George Locker.

The second section of the guide teaches you 15 highly effective Postural Retraining exercises which can improve bone density, relaxation, blood circulation, and improve flexibility. Rachel knew she wanted to be a professional skier but she had no idea this would lead to her jumping out of helicopters and skiing off 30 foot cliffs. The book distills generations of Chinese martial-arts wisdom about balance and stability into a practical and effective exercise system that can improve balance and stability in people of all ages, from seniors with insecure balance to elite athletes looking to improve excellent balance. I was impressed by both his depth of understanding of the topic and his presentation, and quickly began to understand why my earlier attempts at Tai Chi were accompanied by pain.The postures and exercises which do not have to be memorized and can be done at home - emphasize simple positions and small movements that are appropriate for those who have mobile impairments, including several exercises that acknowledge the common elderly struggle to sit down and stand up. Falling Is Not an Option is an original, provocative, and groundbreaking work of the widely misunderstood subject of human balance. Falling Is Not an Option: A Way to Lifelong Balance begins with an illuminating discussion about the nature of balance: its inherent beauty, its elusive source, its necessity, and its common loss late in life.