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My name is Brock Armstrong and I am the Get Fit Guy.

Balance is something that we don't think about very much after we learn it as a child or as

we start to lose it as a senior.

But balance is crucial to healthy living, and that is what we're

going to talk about today. Many of the people that I coach are in their 50s and 60s and even a few

beyond that, so balance has actually become a bit of a focus for me lately. And just recently I received

a question on Facebook about ways to improve balance, and then I decided it was probably time to address this topic publicly.

So let's take a look at how balance works, why we need it, and what we can do to maintain it.

If you pay attention to it, the world is always trying to knock you over in creative ways.

The ground gets slippery when it rains, it gets slick with foreign substances, and it's

often riddled with bumps and cracks.

And our old faux gravity constantly pulls on us, as if it's waiting for us to just slip

up and take a tumble. The fact that we

manage to stay upright, the majority of the day, is actually pretty incredible. For children,

balance is something that requires practice. For adults, it's something that we only really

think about when we test its limits with daring feats like parkour or something like that.

But the older we get, the more the world seems to challenge our balance.

And with that in mind, doesn't it sound like a good idea to keep practicing it?

Now, before we get into that, let's talk about how we actually balance.

According to the website vestibular.org, balance is achieved

and maintained by a complex set of sensory motor control systems that include sensory input

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