329: Improve Your Balance, Improve Your Life
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
If you can balance well, your yoga practice is more fun, you’re faster and nimbler, and you might even live longer. Sound far-fetched? Check it out: falls are the second leading cause of accidental or unintentional injury deaths worldwide. 424,000 individuals die from falls globally. My balance has improved massively in the past couple years, but historically, I’ve had terrible balance. I assumed it was something I just had to live with, but I’ve learned that poor footwear, bad walking patterns, and zero balance training all created this problem—and it’s largely reversible. On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, you’ll learn about balance training for athletes and anyone who seeks optimal health.
Listen & Learn:
- Why balance involves your: vestibular system (inner ear), proprioception (body awareness, sensation) and vision
- How anyone can learn balance at any age using simple at-home tools and approaches
- Why balance is a software problem, not hardware
- How a slackline give you a “fall announcement” so land on your feet and stay safe
- How 25% of your bones and muscles are in your feet and another 25% in your hands
- Why slips and falls are the #1 cause of injury (and potentially death) for people over 65
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Jim is a lifelong innovator who was looking for ways to maintain his own athletic performance, and in the process, he created The Slackbow Balance Training System, a body and mind fitness program that can help at any age.
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- Iron Supplements
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today's show is called Improve Your Balance, Improve Your Life, and I am joined here with |
| 0:09.2 | Jim Clopman. |
| 0:10.2 | Jim is a lifelong innovator. |
| 0:11.9 | He was looking for ways to maintain his own athletic |
| 0:14.4 | performance as he got older and in the process he created something called the |
| 0:18.0 | Slack Bow Balance Training System we'll be talking about that today it's's a mind body fitness program. It can help at any age. |
| 0:25.0 | If you'd like to check it out while we're talking you can learn more at his site, his products, his book, Slackboe.com. |
| 0:32.0 | Jim, welcome to the show. |
| 0:33.1 | Thanks Lucas. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm looking forward to it. |
| 0:35.0 | Appreciate it. |
| 0:35.6 | So why is balance so important for health? |
| 0:37.3 | I don't think most people are thinking about muscles and they're thinking about |
| 0:39.7 | mobility, but balance is often overlooked. |
| 0:42.1 | Why is it important for our health? |
| 0:43.0 | I mean, I don't know, it affects all parts of our lives. |
| 0:46.0 | It affects our brain performance, our effects our sense of well-being, |
| 0:51.0 | and, you know, it keeps us alive alive it's the one thing that really separates |
| 0:55.3 | us from all other mammals we're the only one that's designed to stand on two feet |
| 0:59.3 | and even then we stand on one foot. |
| 1:02.9 | And what we found that is we're all about just a quarter of |
| 1:06.6 | pound of pressure being in balance or out of balance. |
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