Rethinking Fitness: The Overlooked Significance of Stability and Balance

Rethinking Fitness: The Overlooked Significance of Stability and Balance

Staying useful for as long as we can, brain training our central nervous system to improve our balance, demystifying PT, the difference between stability and balance, and more. In today's show, I'm here to share my personal experiences surrounding stability and balance - two aspects that are often overlooked. This episode is all about the journey; from me hopping on one foot to enhance balance, to exploring physical therapy and sports for more robust body stability, to learning how this fosters longer, better, and healthier lives for all of us. It's about harnessing the power of movement and control.

As we age, the risk of injuries from falls increases alarmingly, making stability and balance crucial for our overall health. This episode sheds light on these important elements of fitness and emphasizes how their role goes beyond the traditional gym routine.

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Quotes
“If we feel confident in our bodies, if we feel certain that we are stable, doing whatever we're doing, we're going to be able to be more useful.”

“Doing things like playing tennis, playing pickleball, all of these things require an element of stability, and one of the things to keep in mind is that a lot of our physical faculties are going to decay pretty much no matter what we do. So we need to keep them at the peak level for as long as we can.”

“Then we have balance, and balance is a critical part of stability, but it's not the same thing as stability.”

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