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How
to Train Your Balance
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| "I
recommend these exercises to all who want to improve their
balance. Simply put, they allow me to do so much more, and I
feel better." -Joe M., 73 |
What Would Better Balance Mean to You?
Better balance can help you:- Reduce your chances of falling.
- Live
an active life.
- Stay independent.
- Keep up with your friends and family.
- Walk more confidently with a decreased fear of falling.
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“My Balance Has Improved Beyond
All My Hopes”
"Dear Mike, I am writing to thank you for the help I have gotten from your balance exercises. After a long bout of health troubles I lost my balance and the doctors told me I would not recover it. I was devastated and started looking on the computer for any help I could find. It was there that I found your exercises and started them as soon as I could. As you said, they have become a part of my daily life, and I now start the day with them. My balance has improved beyond all my hopes and continues to do so. I can’t thank you enough for your help. Your book is really great. Best wishes," -Margret, Australia |
Meet Your “Balance Coach”
Hi.
My name is Mike Ross. As an exercise physiologist at a hospital-based
health and fitness center, I’ve worked with seniors through personal
training, classes, lectures, and consultations.Over the years, I noticed that while a lot of people do cardiovascular exercise for their heart and strength training for their muscles, almost no one does any exercises to train their balance and help prevent falls.
Yet according to the Center for Disease Control, falling is the most common cause of injury in people over 60. These falls can result in broken bones, hospital visits, bills, and even a loss of independence.
I realized that if you could train your heart and muscles, you should also be able to train your balance. So I started developing and experimenting with different exercise designed to challenge the sense of balance.
I wanted people to be able to do the balance exercises without my supervision, so I knew they had to be simple and safe, and I didn’t want people to have to buy any equipment, either. I kept all of this in mind as I developed my exercises.
Over the next three years, during hundreds of hands-on training sessions with seniors, I tweaked each exercise over and over again to find the right combination of safety, simplicity, and effectiveness.
Finally, I organized the exercises into a system and started running a class called "Better Balance for Seniors." When so many of my "students" told me the exercises were helpful, cutting-edge, and even fun, I knew I had to share my system with more people.
That’s why I developed The Balance Manual. I want to help you train your balance and reduce your risk of falling.
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Doddie Decided to Take Action and
Train Her Balance With The Balance Manual "Mike, thank you for The Balance Manual. When I finished reading it I was very surprised to find you did not need to spend a good deal of time training your balance. Though the exercises look simple, I found them to be a bit of a challenge at first, but was quite delighted to see an improvement after practicing. Consistency is very important. The exercises can be done in a rather short time which allows me to keep at them. Some of them are fun to do when standing in line at the check-out counter. It gives me confidence to know I'm secure on my feet when I'm in a crowded environment. I find the Balance Workout Log to be very helpful. It keeps me working on different positions and allows for an accurate record of positions done so I can create new combinations. The step by step pictures that show how to get up after a fall are a very helpful visual, and the room-by-room Fall Prevention Checklist for the Home helps one take stock of one’s living space. All this information will keep us senior citizens capable of living a long and active life." -Doddie
Kobs, 78, great grandmother of 3
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More on The Balance Manual
You
will learn how to customize
each exercise to fit your own ability level.
- All the exercises have thorough explanations and pictures so you know you’re doing them correctly.
- There’s no medical terminology. Everything is written in straight-forward, everyday language, and it’s in a larger font for easy reading.
- The Manual comes with a Balance Workout Sheet with all the exercises together on one page. You can print it and use it as a quick reference whenever you do the exercises.
| "Hi
Mike. I just wanted to let you know that we really enjoyed reading The
Balance Manual. It's fantastic and I am looking forward to
diving more
into it. Thanks for creating such a beneficial resource. I will
definitely be recommending this book." -Sandra Sieber, Senior Fitness Trainer |
Step 2 – Increase Leg Strength
The
Balance Manual will also teach you how to strengthen
your leg
muscles to help prevent falls in a special chapter called...The Five Best Exercises for Stronger Legs.
Your leg muscles play a key role in many of the activities of daily life, whether its, getting into your car, getting up out of a chair, picking something up off the ground, or going up stairs.
Strong leg muscles are also crucial when it comes to preventing falls.
In light of that, I’ve hand-picked the five most effective exercises for improving leg strength in people over 60.
Each exercised in explained and demonstrated with pictures, and you can do them at home without any equipment. Just doing these five exercises two or three times per week can make a tremendous impact on your leg strength and quality of life.
| "The
exercises have helped me with both balance and strength. I
use them every week, and afterwards I always feel refreshed
and stronger." -Thomas R., 76 |
Step 3 – Reduce Tripping Hazards in Your Home
Do you know where the most common place is that people fall? At home! The good thing is that many of these falls are preventable if you know what to look for.
Step 3 of my program is The Fall Prevention Checklist for the Home which guides you through a room-by-room assessment of your house and helps you eliminate potential tripping hazards. There are over 20 useful tips on the checklist.
Finally, though we hope you never fall, it’s good to have a plan just in case. This chapter also covers:
- How to minimize injury if you fall.
- How to assess yourself and your surroundings after a fall to prevent further injury.
- How to get back up from a fall. Sometimes the worst part about falling is trying to get back up. I’ll show you a step-by-step process for getting back on your feet.
| "Mike,
I am 86 years old and
have had to give up golf this year because of my physical weakness and
lack of good balance. I really had trouble hitting out of a
sand
trap! I searched the internet in vain until I found an article explaining your Manual, and I decided to look into what you had to offer. I have started reading and using your Balance Manual and it is exactly what I need to help maintain and improve my balance. Your manual is truly a gift to us older folks who need to keep going." -Ken Elson, Grand Island, Nebraska |
Your Complete Fall Prevention System
The Balance Manual is a complete fall prevention program that can help you maintain a higher quality of life for as long as possible.
Step
1 – Train Your Balance
Step 2 – Strengthen Your Legs
Step 3 – Reduce Tripping Hazards at Home
Step 2 – Strengthen Your Legs
Step 3 – Reduce Tripping Hazards at Home
When used together, these three steps give you the best chance of reducing the frequency and severity of falls.
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"Mike,
thanks for developing this
program. I am usually skeptical about ordering fitness stuff online,
but I downloaded the book and was pleasantly surprised at how good and
thorough it was. Looking forward to using your ideas and exercises in a
new balance class I’m teaching. You are right, as we age, balance is
absolutely essential for our well-being."
-Tino Jimenez, certified fitness trainer |
How Much Does it Cost?
There's 3 ways that you can learn my system:
Option 1 - Train with Me One-on-One - $240
If
you live in suburban Chicago, I can work with you on an individual
basis. It takes about three hours for me to teach someone my system,
and I charge $80 per hour, so that would be $240 total.
Option 2 – Enroll in My Better Balance Class - $65
You
can also learn the exercises in a group setting in my Better Balance
Class. This class meets twice a week for a month, and the charge is $65.
Option 3 – Get The Balance Manual Ebook - $39.95 $29.95
The
Balance Manual Ebook will show you how to safely
do all
the exercises
at home with no equipment in just ten minutes a day. You can download
The
Balance Manual Ebook (a PDF file) instantly, save it to
your
computer to read whenever you want, and print selected pages or the
whole thing. Click here
to do a test ebook download.
The
5 Most Important Stretches for People Over 60As people get older, they tend to spend more time sitting and less time standing. The problem is that all that sitting makes certain muscles chronically tight which can lead to poor posture that wreaks havoc on your muscles, joints, and balance. This report shows you how to stretch out those tight muscles. ($19.95 value)
The
Restaurant Survival GuideEverybody likes to go out to eat, but the problem is that we often eat a lot more calories than we would if we were at home. In the retirement years, eating out regularly can lead to weight gain. This report will show you simple strategies that can help you control your calorie intake at a restaurant without feeling like you're depriving yourself. ($9.95 value)
Upper
Body Strength WorkoutThis report explains and demonstrates 6 great exercises that will safely strengthen your upper body muscles. These exercises compliment the balance and leg exercises nicely and only take a few minutes to do. ($14.95 value)
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"I
ordered your wonderful Balance
Manual a few days ago. You
told me things in the first few minutes of reading that I was never
told. I can already begin to see some results. I'm
65 and retired. Your book is a blessing. Thank you."
-Doug Jones |
My Guarantee to You
I’m so sure The Balance Manual will help you that I’m offering a
60-Day No Questions Asked Money-Back Guarantee.
That’s right, you can “test drive” The Balance Manual for a full 60 days, and then if you don’t think it’s going to make your life better, just email me, and I’ll give you every penny back.
I won’t have a customer service rep make up some technical reason why you can’t have a refund. I won’t try to convince you to try the exercises for a few more weeks. I won’t even ask if you read the manual. I’ll just give you all your money back, no questions asked.
People often ask me why I offer a 60-Day Guarantee for such a small transaction – you don’t even get that with a new car! The answer is simple. I know you’ve worked hard for you money, and you probably don’t just buy things on the Internet every day just for the fun of it.
If you’ve come to this website and read this far, I assume training your balance and preventing falls must be pretty important to you. I made The Balance Manual to help people like you do just that. If it doesn’t help you, then I want you to have your money back.
P.S. I’ve poured everything I know into The Balance Manual to help you improve your balance, prevent falls, and enjoy a high quality of life. You'll get three great bonus reports with your order, and there's a 60-Day Money-Back Guarantee, so you have nothing to lose. Why not get started today?
