Why Old People Should Improve Their Balance (And How)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- You won’t make progress with your balance in the long run unless you understand WHY you’re trying to improve your balance. If you have the right reasons AND some simple techniques, you can make huge improvements in your balance no matter what your age.
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00:00 - Start
00:34 - Intro
01:38 - Intent of this video
02:47 - Reasons to Improve Your Balance
04:48 - Daily Balance Exercise #1
05:29 - Daily Balance Exercise #2
07:45 - Hold times
10:11 - Inspiring Comments
11:01 - Inspirational Comment
12:08 - Inspirational Comment #2
12:37 - Closing
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I’m 52. When I was younger I danced ballet and then became a runner in my 30’s, running 7 10K races a year. As I got older, work took center stage and I’ve become more sedentary. You do lose it, really quick. I also can’t get up off of the floor easily, and that scared me. I am now doing Pilates and will start running again. Don’t stop moving!
Exactly !! I'm in a similar vessel.. Yes, consistently moving is the key.
Keeping moving is SO important. My MIL is 88, and she hasn't stopped going places, walking, moving around and she is still going strong.
Yes, am feeling the signs of aging at 62. I found the Feldenkrais Method at 50 and it can really help with improving movement & getting up from the floor. Now I need strength training as taught here. Keep going!
My Grandfather was 96 and still going up on the roof to repair it. Still driving, going fishing, living alone, doing great. I asked him his secret to youth. He said if you stop doing something you lose the ability to do it. My reason for following your channel. I thought I was doing good til one day I couldn't get off the floor without my hands. Looked on utube, found you, 2 months later I am doing Asian squats and can easily rise from the floor and climb ladders and stairs. Thank you so much. I plan to continue to absorb your wisdom. Keep up the good work, you are my mentor.
There’s nothing sadder than watching/caring for a relative who didn’t do anything to maintain their mobility as they age. Their world becomes so small and they become so sad and angry.
Health and fitness has always been part of my life but as I get older, I accept that I need to modify my activities. Staying active is what allows me to travel, hike, explore and just enjoy life even if I have occasional aches and pains.
Thanks for another excellent video.
My mom didn’t become sad and angry. She just sort of accepted her fate. But I understood all along something she did not: that she was imprisoned in prison bars of her own making. These were the prison bars in her own mind of her erroneous thoughts and beliefs. I don’t know how many times I heard her say “You’re supposed to get arthritis when you ‘get old’.”
These can keep a person in prison far more effectively than steel bars forged to incarcerate.
I’m 55 and 4’11”. I have become my 77year old 5’7” husband’s caregiver since his cancer diagnosis. He is tolerating chemo well because he was strong and healthy and active. He has lost a lot of weight and muscle and strength, but had he not been a “young” 77y/o, he’d be dead. Also, I realized how important my own strength and activity and balance have been as a caregiver. Thank you for these tips!
Blessings upon both of you !!!
Please take care of yourself as well. Best wishes for better health for you both ❤
Man, nothing more hurtful, than watching people you love suffer & die. My deepest condolences to you. I get that. I try to encourage people around me to get moving, but it mostly falls on deaf ears.
I'm 69 and fully engaged in the battle for old age survival. My main weapon is strength training, but this channel has really helped me to think outside the box.
I'm in decent shape, but there's always room to improve, and balance & VO2 max are 2 areas I need to address a bit more thoroughly.
My #1 reason for me to work on my health which includes balancing is to be independent as long as possible. I worked in healthcare and saw how so many just gave up. I don’t want to be a burden to anyone and be free and care for myself. Thank you for this video 😊
Same here. I did eldercare and refuse to believe it is necessary to fall apart as we age. Yet at 62 my body is waking me up to the need to exercise and keep going!
@@lavenderliger5154 absolutely @67 with chronic arthritis I realized I couldn’t sit still anymore along with a vegan diet that was a game changer. Be well my friend
So sorry that you loss both of your parents. I’m glad to see that you are allowing that pain to motivate you to be proactive about your own health and produce videos that encourage others to do the same.
Yesterday, I had the worst day of my life. I went to the funeral home and viewed my mom laying there in a casket for the last time of my life.
I fully support what you say, because a few years ago my mom was walking, driving a car, and she was free to live.
Then it began. Arthritis pains in her hands and joints. Minor pains, but arthritis, nevertheless. Well, those insignificant pains increased and increased over the past four or five years, till she ended up walking on a walker for support (all bent over) to the point where five weeks ago she COULD NOT EVEN STAND OR WALK TWO OR THREE INCHES FROM HER RECLINER TO HER POTTY CHAIR. And yes, her doctor had her on a ton of those prescriptions that you mentioned. I call it “the medical merry-go-round!”
Then after that came a hospital stay and then a nursing home for a couple days, then she was called away out of her earthly body.
And I had to live through the heart-wrenching pain of watching her slowly decline over the past four or five years. I wouldn’t wish any of this on my worst enemy!
All I can say is if you get minor aches and pains, you better NOT think of them as minor or innocuous! That’s a clever LIE! They are death in disguise come knocking! The moment they come you had better totally devote yourself to ridding your body of INFLAMMATION!!!
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Sorry for your loss. xo I understand the grief & healing to your heart dear ❤
So sorry for your loss. 💔Thank you for sharing what you’ve learned.
Thank you for this information. I’m so sorry for your loss. I have the privilege of training older adults who inspire me by showing up 3 times a week for my strength and balance class. After a year of helping my mom who is 93 I have found my own balance is much better. I was able to climb a ladder without fear and pop into a low squat to get eye to eye with my 2 year old granddaughter.
I am 57 and was in a doz. car accidents in my teens and twenties. There have been numerous times I felt like giving up and going down the bigpharma/surgery path. Luckily I found a great osteopath and a personal trainer who literally “have my back”😂. I have always put my socks on standing up, I can still get on my horse from the ground, and carry a 45lb backpack for 8 days in the high country of Olympic National Park. I work on my core stability and balance in weight training a minimum of 2-3 x per week. I ❤your videos!
Really great recommendations! I’m 61 and my husband 67. We strive to live this way every day. We feel so fortunate to have this mindset. It makes life much better. Thanks for encouraging people and training them how to approach it when it’s a foreign concept.
I am 58, and I want to improve my balance so I can pick up coins I drop, which always seems to hug the floor. Also, because I plan to spend the 2024 summer in parks, sooooo when I go to the bathroom in public, I don't want to fall onto the yucky toilet seat.
If I'm standing anywhere waiting on something, I'm moving. If I'm in the kitchen getting my coffee ready, it may be a pre-walk warmup. If I'm shopping, it's usually to relieve my stiff, sore hip. Same with doing dishes. Take advantage of that time, folks!
The mindset of most Americans is on getting a doctor to cure you… when it should be what are all the things I can do to keep myself healthy .. learn about the benefits of keeping limber and mobile… learn about nutrition and what foods are good and also remember there is God in Heaven that will guide you if you ask!❤ thank you for all your videos!
AMEN, AMEN, AMEN !!! And we must do our part as well..
Oh so true, "pain sucks, life shouldn't". 👏💯👍
So appreciate you! I am 72. Need to supplement SS with Uber Eats. Have been doing Uber for 3 years. On one fall broke my wrist and dislocated elbow. Second fall broke both wrists. It is important people. Thank you.
One important thing I learned since 2020 is to listen to my body when it wants to do the kind of stuff that would have gotten me weird looks in public back then. Getting up off my office chair and stretching is OK; using time waiting in a line or for the microwave or whatever to do some stretching or squats is OK.
Some of the exercises you advise fall into the things my body asks for. And doing them - is OK!
First, I’m so sorry for the loss of your father and grandfather. Two in one year. That is rough. I hope you have the support you need to navigate this difficult time. Thank you for your upright health content. Im 64 and really want to maintain my health, strength, flexibility and balance as I get older. I enjoy your videos. They are instructive, informative and funny. I appreciate your work!🙏
Thank you so much for this. I've done eldercare for 15 years now and have lost much strength and endurance! Also seeing the painful deterioration of so many elders and the medical Pill popping industry they subscribe to is sad. We need to shift the concept of aging from accepted deterioration to ever improving and hopeful enthusiasm through exercise and other practices. I currently see a 98yo Welsh woman who still lives alone, does her Pt exercises, cooks & bakes. My Dad was in the gym in his 80's. I am hopeful that lifelong patterns can be improved at any age if we are WILLING. Thanks so much!
I’m 62 and finally retired from my “regular” job with the time and financial means (thanks regular job) to do what I truly love to do > SAILING - as in cruising, racing and teaching. And I want to do this actively for as long as possible. I worked a desk job for over 32 years and now it’s time to reverse the sedative habits and results to go “live my best life” (my 28 year old daughter says that’s what doing, whatever that means 😂).
LOVE your videos and your positive perspective. I'm 74 and want better balance not only to protect myself as I age but because I want to learn to surf. I'm finally at a place, literally, in my life where I can pursue my dreams and your information, clear instructions and positivity shows me how to think differently & re-groove my brain. Excellent! Thank you so much!
You are so right. I say to everyone, do not wait.
I’m an observant person. One thing I’ve observed about “age,” or the illusion of it: There are definitely millions of people who are elderly who are in nursing homes, wasting away, vegetating.
Yet here is a conundrum: If you search TH-cam you can find dozens of videos of other people who are “elderly” chronologically speaking, yet they are in gyms working out and doing things you’re supposed to only do in your twenties!
I saw one lady, I think she was over a HUNDRED YEARS OLD, and she was doing gymnastics like a young teen!
So why aren’t the second group in the nursing home along with the first group?? If you are “SUPPOSED” to get diseases and infirmity as you (cough, choke, sputter) “grow old,” then why do some people get skipped over? Are they just (cough, choke, sputter, again) “LUCKY?”
I really don’t need to answer that, because I suspect we all know the answer.
I was roller-skating and speed-skating for many years pre-pandemic. I think that helped with my balance a lot. But I've lost some of the balance and strength since the lockdowns and rink closures. Now 64, I'm feeling the urgency to get active again.
64, active job even so found last few years muscle mass notably declined and weight , have taken up bike riding during covid lockdowns hear in australia. Do about 40km ride on the weekends may be a little more if motivated and more protein in diet has helped a lot.Great video I agree with you mobility sentiment.
I struggle with vertigo frequently so I am always looking for ways to ways to improve balance. It's a necessity.
I have seen the enemy and the enemy is the chair.
As much as I adore relaxing in my chair, the key to growing old gracefully, apparently, is to keep moving.
Balance & movement go hand in hand like ying and yang.
What continues to baffle me is, I'm stiff everywhere.
Im 75.
I live in a multi generational household and my parents and kids need me to be in good condition. I love your videos and approach!.❤
I am so sorry for your loss.
I would like to thank you for this video. I suffer from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Iam still mobile and I try to do physiotherapist recommended excercises at home but..i have fatigue everyday and have balance issuesthat cause me to stumble a lot and sometimes fall. I have an injury to my right leg which was due to a bad fall and the 'tendon' infront of my shin tore andnmy physiotherapist thinks i might have chiped the bone and the tendon joined onto the bone as it was healing. But....i have now found you and im going to try to fo the excercises that you have recommended for balance.
Thank you for giving me a booster for doing excercises and showing people how to do them while in the kitchen, bathroom etc..
Believe me i just started doing some squats before going to bed. btw, the laying on your side and getting hip pain excercise video led me here😊
Once again Thank You😊
I love the way you encourage each of your viewers yo get moving....at a level appropriate for where we are now with improvements as possible. What's right for me is different than what's right for you. Excellent! Stay strong.
Hi I am 53 male . Since I was a teenager I could not sit cross legged. After thirty seconds my knee hurt so I stopped trying . Now 40 years later I can si t cross legged watching football on Tv or a movie. Just day by day testing my range of mobility using the ideas you talk about. It's great to do these simple things
Thanks for helping us.
At 76 I try to do this type of exercise as much as possible but I have rheumatoid arthritis and it often affects my ankles which makes it difficult.
Love this video...so true! Thanks for the hand up! ❤
Totally agree with you 100%! Much gratitude to you.
Thank you for your fantastic videos. Sorry about your loss.
Thank you so much for all your caring videos. I've been practicing what you teach for a while now-espcially like the asian squats- it really helps. I've just turned 60 and I tell everyone I know that they have to follow you. Thanks again for everything you do.
You are comical and informative. I appreciate you showing and telling how and what to do. I'm going to look at your vids for my back. The right side hurts terribly...👍🏽👍🏽
Just feeling in control is reason enough for me....I have cerrebellum damage and lost a lot of hip mobility causing pain in hips and knees...everything is now improving,I'm 60 ,so when I checkout,I'd like everything to still work...so thank you so much for your video's.
I love this channel. Thank you. And very sorry for your loss.
Oh sorry to hear... my sincere condeoleance with the loss of your parents. Thank you very much for all great vids they help me a lot they are the best on whole TH-cam... THANKS! ♥
My motivation for improving my balance is to regain the vibrant strength and agility. I used to have before my hip and my ankle replacement this year. I had practiced martial arts for decades, and I still do, and being unable to do things I used to consider basics Really irks me. I am a boy when I can walk up the stairs without touching the walls. I still have to focus on it, but it’s a good improvement. The exercises you show are easy to incorporate into my daily routine, and I will set out posted. Notes to remind myself to do them! Also, your ankle mobility video is my next stop. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and for helping us set goals!
Sorry about the voice-to-text errors!
Thanks for the video. This video couldn't have come at a better time. I am 44 and have been doing ATG exercises that I modified to help improve your balance.
Great content.
I am sorry for your loss, my parents both died at 64 and 65 so I have out lived them both at 67 and go to the gym 3-4 times a week. Fighting age as much as possible also went WFPB.
Thank you for the encouragement .. I’m 67, still can touch the floor with my palms and do the splits .. keep on truckin’
I feel your pain. It seems family is the hardest to get to follow advice. 90% of my work is with seniors and my parents are the most challenging
thanks for all you share. sitting is very unhealthy. stand up & move around.
I'm a hiker and have been focusing on balance and stability this past year. I'm now able to do narrow trails that scared me previously. Never too late to regain strength. I'm 67.
Thanks 🙏
I'm 63 years old and my work has me climbing ladders and scaffold up to 35 feet above the ground. Other times I'm on stilts up to 42 inches tall. Maintaining my balance is very important to me and I have done exercises for that purpose since my late 20s. As I approach retirement age I'm turning down some jobs because of dangerous climbing situations. I Still want to maintain my balance after I retire so I can stand up in a canoe to cast a dry fly.
Thank you
Wow, so much very practical/do able info for all ages especially for this 66 yo man ; how to strenghthen muscles/sharpen balance while performing every day tasks, brilliant!
Thanks, you motivate me every time. Now I notice when standing on one foot it does not support on 3 points anymore... So... need to work on better arch first. Found a movie on your channel (flat foot strech) for that. Hope I will get there finally.
I'll make it short.you are absolutely great 🎉
You're the best!
Great! Thankyou.. I need the excercises, am 68 and I want to carry on walking and some jogging..😊 sorry to hear about your parents, I lost my dad at 68 through stroke, so I'm now at the age dad passed away at, but he did hardly any excercise and smoked for many years and his diet when he grew up in 1920s &30s and where he grew up in London was not favorable.. Mum passed away at 86 and although she was born about the same time as dad she didn't smoke and walked to work and back home every weekday, so about 40 mins of walking on most days, so I guess that benefitted her with longevity.
Thanks!
Huge thanks!
Thank you for your channel. I'm 60 and want to get more physical. I have done yoga on and off my whole life. I want to find different ways to improve my physical health which will lead to better mental health. Do you have any reference books on better aging? I really don't feel my age, but I need to be more proactive. Use it or lose it!
I know this is not everybody's cup of tee, but ,as I started running 3-4 times a week 30 min. ( I started with walking ) in my 40's ! my body stability went through the roof .
Do you think running is ok for older people? I thought it was hard on the knees.
@@Beth-77 well, i started with walking for at least 6 months. Give your knees enough time
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I'm 70. When I can move freely, I look so good in my clothes, and in my skin
Thanks
Much appreciated!
Seeing my dad go through the same thing now after falling and breaking his arm. I don't want to be in the same situation.
Add stroke in 2020 my body would pull to right side of body. Took 2 years to teach myself how to walk without body pulling to right of body. In 2022 was proud; I could stand with feet under my feet. Got knee pain PT on hold since 1/4/24 . Restarting P.T. ; on evaluation test of standing one leg didn’t do good ( 2 bad knees ). Sent home with list of exercises including one leg .My question is with my body pulling to right ; when standing one left leg I try to hold my right leg and arm closer to my body. Does that makes sense?
Condolences to you and your family
Good video
It's hard to do lunges. My ankles and knees hurt terribly.
i would like to see a diet video
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What to do if you have weak ankles or foot problems
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You could say something less harsh than “OLD PEOPLE” 😂
I happen to be one of those “Old people” ❤. But I am seriously tired of people saying that. Senior was rough but it’s more gentle than “Old People” 😂🤣
Love your channel. Thank you! Would you like to increase your audience? Osteoporosis is on the rise and Australia (Belinda Beck) is the only country with evidence based research on what type of exercise actually builds bone. Their method, Onero, is available in only 1 location in the Western Hemisphere in NJ. I call it LBJ… Lift, Balance, Jump. Please consider looking into it. Women, especially, are starving for guidance and expertise. You could be a pioneer. ❤
Without balance, you lose movement, and strength. You fall down and hit your head. I have seen it.
Ride a Harley man find Balance
At age 60, three years ago, I bought and started riding a Honda VT400C for the reason of challenge, both physically and mentally.
One of the best things I’ve done.
Because it feels good......and I don't feel like a helpless Female ....I'm 70 😊
I don't want to be interned in a nursing home.
So ballet? Cause that thumbnail is kind of a ballet pose. 💗 I'm so sorry about your parents.❤😢💞 🤸♀️📌You have to choose between your liver and your kidneys. Medications get one or the other.
Thanks!
Many thanks!
Thanks!
Huge thanks!! Your support is much appreciated.
Thanks!
You bet!
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Big thanks to you!