Boost Your Balance: The Authoritative Guide To Senior Exercise For Improving Fitness, Defying Aging, And PREVENTING FALLS

Product Description

Falls can have devastating effects on older adults, so prevention is key! If you are interested in improving your balance, boosting your fitness, and defying aging processes, then this all-in-one guide is for you. This book will provide you with the required tools to take matters into your own hands! Boost Your Balance will:• Teach you how we balance and prevent falls, and why falls may occur in seniors• Show you how specific training can improve your balance• Educate you about principles of exercise for seniors• Provide you with a unique, easy-to-follow 4-week training program combining strength, flexibility, coordination, and balance exercises• Enable you to independently perform and modify your training for long term successUse this book and the included training program to disrupt aging, improve your health, and optimize balance for more safety and better quality of life!

Review

This book fills a long-felt need in the field of physical exercise. No one doubts that the factors of longevity and healthy aging are closely related to being physically active. Despite this well-known fact, many older adults find it difficult to return to an active life and physical activity.There is an abundance of books on physical activity. However, the difference with this book is the way the subject of exercise is explained and presented. Very clear graphics show in a simple way what you should do and what you could do, even in old age, without injuring yourself, which is an important requirement for older people to get and stay physically fit again.The author is an expert in physical training and a recognized PhD of human biomechanics and orthopedics in the aging population. Throughout the book, one senses the expert opinion, which is an important contribution to the current literature on physical exercise. The book is recommended not only for the elderly, but for anyone who wants simple guidance on how to keep their body at the same level and regain physical strength to combat aging.”

– Eckhard Alt, MD, PhD, world-renowned physician and scientist

“Boost your Balance is the practical guide to improve postural balance that I would recommend to my parents and physiotherapy students. I wish there were a Portuguese version to facilitate spreading!”

– Silvia Neri, PT, MSc, PhD (Researcher and expert on promotion of physical activity to enhance mobility and prevent falls)

“Dr. Dettmer has written an excellent and definitive resource guide for sophisticated readers, patient and practitioner alike. With over 25 years as a clinician and researcher, I endorse his superb book without any reservation.”

– Stephanie Hart-Hughes, PT, MSMS, NCS (Member of the Florida Physical Therapy Association Fall Prevention Task Force; founding member, James A. Haley Veteran’s Hospital Interdisciplinary Falls Clinic)

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About the Author

Dr. Marius Dettmer is a scientist, fitness advisor, and expert in the fields of Neuroscience and Healthy Aging. He holds a PhD from the University of Houston and has authored numerous medical book chapters, college textbook chapters, and peer-reviewed scientific articles in German and English language. Marius is the creator of the novel preventative exercise program “Boost Your Balance”, which aims to improve older adults’ quality of life by enhancing balance and preventing falls.He has had a lifelong fascination with how the brain controls muscles to create movement using sensory information. For over 15 years, Marius has supported and conducted research projects studying the effects of aging, disease, and even spaceflight on movement and balance in humans. His main interests are falls in healthy adults and patients, and how structured exercise programs can lead to decreased risk of falls in such populations.