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Balance training: Boost your long-term health with these exercises
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1. Change your base of support
2. Change your surface
3. Close your eyes
4. Turn your head or look up and down
5. Add movement elsewhere
Experiments
5. Add movement elsewhere
While standing on one leg, put your arms out in a T position and make small circular motions for 30 seconds. Then try circular motions in the opposite direction. Work to increase your time. Once this becomes easy, try simultaneously turning your head side to side.
Incorporating balance training into your daily activity or exercise routine can be both easy and fun. These exercises should be tailored to your skill level. You should be challenged, but not to the degree that it is difficult to perform them safely.
