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As balance decreases with age, the risk of falls increases and daily life can be affected.
However, by consistently doing appropriate balance training, you can improve your body’s stability and prevent falls!
This time, we’ll introduce balance-training exercises that older adults can do without strain.
From simple chair-based movements to standing exercises, we’ll show safe methods you can practice with confidence.
Make them part of your daily routine and aim for a body that moves with ease and peace of mind!
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[For Older Adults] Balance Training Exercises. Fall Prevention (1–10)
Single-Leg Balance Stability UP: Gluteus Medius TrainingNEW!
Standing on one leg was easy when we were kids, but as we get older, many of us find our bodies wobbling and can’t balance well.
One possible reason is weakening of the gluteus medius.
The gluteus medius is an important muscle for stabilizing the pelvis, so take this opportunity to train it well.
This training introduces two movements to build strength, plus a stretch.
The strength exercises are simple: open and close your legs while bent, and move your leg diagonally backward while extended.
Do the stretch in a seated position.
Sit-to-stand training using parallel barsNEW!
This is a standing-up exercise using parallel bars for rehabilitation.
Hold the bars firmly with both hands and stand up on the count of three.
Then try to maintain a standing position for about 10 seconds.
If you can hold it, slowly sit back down.
Since you won’t always have support when standing up, practice repeatedly standing and sitting like this.
Doing so will strengthen your legs and lower back and help you learn a way of standing up that doesn’t put unnecessary strain on your body.
Parallel bars can also be purchased from online shops.
Sit-to-stand exercise using a chairNEW!
This is a training exercise using chairs that strengthens your legs and glutes.
It directly helps you perform the standing motion with less strain, so give it a try.
First, sit on a chair.
Place another chair facing the same direction in front of you, at a distance where you can touch its backrest with your arms extended.
Grab the front chair with your hands and lean your upper body firmly forward.
Then slowly lift your hips and stand up.
If you stand up with your torso upright, it puts strain on your legs and lower back, so be sure to lean forward well.
Standing-up exercises that don’t strain the knees or lower backNEW!
When you have pain in your knees or lower back, it can be hard to stand up.
Here’s a way to stand with less strain.
First, sit in a chair and place both hands on your thighs.
Then lean your upper body forward as if you’re bowing and lift your hips slightly off the seat.
Finally, press down firmly on your thighs with your hands to raise your upper body.
In addition to this standing technique, we also introduce exercises you can do while seated.
By continuing these, you can strengthen your legs, balance, and core, which should make standing up easier.
Back Muscle Training for Seniors
Strengthen your back muscles with training introduced by an occupational therapist.
Benefits of training the back include preventing rounded shoulders and lower back pain, and by building a strong upper body, improving balance so posture and walking become more stable.
While back exercises are typically done lying face down, this routine is performed standing.
Cross your arms to hold your shoulders and bow.
Keeping your torso tilted forward, raise your arms overhead as if cheering and then pull them back.
These are simple movements anyone can imitate, so give them a try if you like.
Balance training
As we get older, our core tends to weaken, which makes us more likely to trip or fall even over small steps.
If a fall leads to a fracture, there’s a risk of becoming bedridden, so it’s important to keep training the core regularly.
Here, we introduce exercises you can do while seated in a chair, allowing you to train your core safely and easily.
Even simply lifting one leg or both legs while sitting can strengthen your core.
Please use this as a reference.
Core training that targets the lower abdomen
Do you know the iliopsoas muscle? It’s a muscle located from the lower back to the front of the thigh, and it’s an important deep core muscle for walking and maintaining posture.
If you don’t train this iliopsoas, your body may become hunched forward and it may become difficult to lift your legs, so please try these iliopsoas exercises.
For example, even in leg-raising exercises, if you focus on lifting your legs by engaging your abdomen rather than using your leg muscles, you can effectively train the iliopsoas.