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“Just like fluorinating your water or vaccinating yourself, these are ways of keeping you healthy with, from a public health perspective, minimal investment,” Dr. Stahl says. “My own opinion is that we should probably be teaching those skills in grade school.”
Balance and Canes and Walkers, Oh My!!!!
I feel unsure of my balance and need a walker or a cane for support right now. My friends tell me that I shuffle my feet. How can Original SANDDUNE™ help me?
Working out on Original SANDDUNE™ both strengthens and conditions the muscles and the joints of the lower body because it engages them more fully in the process of walking and movement. It connects the muscles of your abdominal core, hip chamber and psoas muscle which is weak in many people who have reduced or stopped their physical activity and lost the ability to lift their legs properly when walking, thus shuffling their feet.
Neuropathy, Toes and Original SANDDUNE™
Stretching and Walking on Original SANDDUNE™
If you are having this problem you may also have issues with your feet and experience neuropathy as a result. The unique surface and flexibility of the SANDDUNE™, allows you to exercise your toes, foot and ankle, individually and collectively. This means your foot is “relearning” how to work together as a unit. Your anchor system to the ground is stronger and has better circulation and range of movement. You “relearn” to look up and look “ahead” to what is coming instead of down in anticipation of falling.
So, what do I hear from my Trainer?
Etruscan Art 520-510 B.C Terracotta and Pigment by Epiktetos – The Athletic Trainer
The forked stick held by this man identifies him as an athletic trainer. 
The ancient author Epictetus (A.D. 55-135) vividly describes the role of a trainer in an athlete’s path to victory:
[Athlete:] I wish to win an Olympic victory.
[Trainer:] (If so), you have to submit to discipline, follow a strict diet, give up sweet-cakes, train under compulsion at a fixed hour, in heat or in cold; you must not drink cold water, nor wine just whenever you feel like it; you must have turned yourself over to your trainer precisely as you would to a physician. Then when the contest comes on you, you have to dig in beside your opponent, sometimes dislocate your wrist, sprain your ankle, swallow quantities of sand, take a scrourging; yes, and then sometimes get beaten along with all that.
Common knowledge to the Spartan Running Girl, Marathon Man, Phidippides of yesteryears and today. (Courtesy of Wall Panel with an Athletic Trainer housed at the Getty Villa Malibu)
This is certainly no new fad, certainly to not to the athlete. Trainers have been telling us to “be quiet and get to work or you would not be in my gym”, for a very long time. (520-510 B.C)
This phenomenon is new, however, to 21st century people who:
- Sit in cars for what seems to be an eternity to go sit at computers all day.
- Sit in the same cars to go home and sit at another computer, or be entranced with television and video games..
- Inactivity is further compounded by the choice to eat mindlessly while doing these “activities.”
Take a break. Move, Sweat!
- “Champion” your effort to return to better health with no complaints. The consequences of inactivity are not pleasant.
- Dealing with physical challenges? Move to the best of your ability!
- Work best by engaging family, friends or joining a group of people who are facing the same physical challenge? Do that! There is power in numbers.
- Do what’s right for you. Talk to your doctor or physical therapist.
Submit to discipline, healthy diet, new hours, unfavorable weather, tepid water and lack of sweet-cakes or “donies” as they are called in our house! Train for the Good Life of Health to the best of your ability.
Albert Einstein, Gravity and Exercise
Weighted pant workout for increased intensity rebound work.
Albert Einstein discovered that the human body cannot tell the difference between the forces of acceleration or deceleration and gravity. No one cared about this finding until mirror resistant exercise or rebounding exercise began to hold the interest of those in high levels of the fitness community in the 1970s.
Rebuild balance, stability and strength in hip and lower body with squats executed in slow graduated drops or static holds at different heights. Fires the Glutes!
All forms of exercise depend on opposition to gravity to have any effect at all. If we have no gravity to hold us down we would not be able to walk upright, let alone exercise.
At the beginning of the space program, NASA took this into consideration when thinking about the astronauts’ health returning from space.
Their concern was the effect their space travel would have on their immune system’s suppression of white blood cells.
Why? When in space the lack of gravity hampers the flow of the lymphatic fluid in the body. It has no pump like the heart to move it along. Atrophy sets in and cells in muscles become weak. This flow can be compared to a great ship traveling through a lock. With no gravity or exercise, there is no need or desire to push to get to the next lock in the canal or level of fitness.
Video clip – Weighted Belt Workout for Upper Body strength, balance, stability and flexibility.
NASA utilized grueling exercise for the astronauts to achieve the rebuilding of the active immune system’s cells upon return to earth. On the other hand, the Swiss used a centrifuge to “fool” the cells into believing they were experiencing increased G-Force and the immune system automatically adjusted by becoming 3 times stronger than under normal earth gravity.
Every single cell in the human body responds instantaneously to the increased physical demands generated by the increased gravity caused by a simple mirror resistance/rebounding workout like that provided on Original SANDDUNE™.
Whose side is gravity going to be on today?
Seattle Seahawks or New England Patriots?
Who would Albert choose?
Got Snow? Need Sand?
Too much snow, wind and ice for a workout in the fresh air?
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Maintain or build your physical fitness, coordination and balance indoors with low impact exercise that jump starts your cardio as it simulates running, walking and exercising in the sand. How?
With Original SANDDUNE™ .
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Call Cynthia @ 714-264-7896
Cardio Burst Short Demo 1:07
Portable, Easy to Store and Simple to Use.
Better Balance and Human Performance
Right now there is a DEMAND for better or greater balance in all aspects of HUMAN performance.
Original SANDDUNE’s unique properties have the capacity to help rebuild these “balance” challenges.
Daily living – sedentary lifestyle, poor posture, gait and core strength
Fitness – rebuilding, maintenance and weight loss
Recovery from surgery or injury – hip, knee, ankle, foot surgery and lower back issues (Prehabilitation and rehabilitation)
Ageing population – chronic illness leading to sedentary lifestyle, and poor gait
Caregivers – facing lack of physical exercise due to demands of caregiving
Children and Adults with Visual and or Vestibular challenges
Coping with the challenge of chronic illness or physical
limitation regardless of age– Stroke, Parkinson’s, MS, Diabetes …
Professional – Firefighter, professional athlete
We offer a 30 day, no risk guarantee for those who are seeking a simple yet effective supplemental path to regaining and rebuilding better balance strength. Don’t wait. Click on the icon below!
Now is the best time to begin your journey to better balance.
The First Step of 1000 miles
The unique properties of Original SANDDUNE™ provide a cushioning, conforming platform ideal for use in the early segments of a rehabilitation plan. Its surface gently forces the foot’s muscles, tendons and ligaments to stretch as your weight shifts from one foot to the other. Simultaneously your whole body is adjusting to gain its Center of Gravity (COG).
“Toes Down” Stretch
“Toes Up” Stretch
Few balance devices allow the whole foot to sink down into their surface while offering the benefit of allowing your toes to stretch and work individually. Original SANDDUNE’s material and construction allow for these “Toe Cross Fit Workouts.”
Relearning to press each toe, individually, into the floor and then into the SANDDUNE™, is a job many pairs of feet have not done since they were running around barefoot as kids. Try it right now and see how challenging it is! Don’t look down at your feet while you try! Among the select few who use their whole foot besides kids and a select group of athletes are:
- Gymnasts
- Dancers
- Runners in ” nature’s socks” like Abebe Bikila or Zola Budd
- Yoga devotees to name a few (sans yoga socks!).
Peeling The Heel
“Peeling the Heel” is an exercise that promotes greater flexion in the ankle arch, and allows the Achilles to tendon to stretch and strengthen slowly. This means greater ankle strength, and can increase the leg stride. You are now “firing the glutes” and learning to walk from the hip. And getting gentle trigger point therapy for the foot at the same time.
Lao Tzu said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.“ Help your toes begin your journey today with Original SANDDUNE! Give them the “Boost of Balance” as your Holiday Season begins!
Sharing a Post – Weighted Medicine Balls are back!
https://www.yahoo.com/health/medicine-balls-are-ancient-fitness-tools-that-keep-99321740852.html
Challenge your Balance, Build Flexibility and Stamina
with Cardio Pumping “Weighted” Workouts
on Original SANDDUNE™!
Weighted Medicine Ball Workout on Original SANDDUNE
Weighted Belt Workout on Original SANDDUNE
‘Prehabilitation’
Prehabilitation is becoming a more widely accepted process before hip and knee surgery. It is defined as exercise and strength training designed to strengthen the body before surgery so the body is better able to tolerate the stress of the procedure and its post operative effects.
The gentle, low impact/high resistance exercises that Original SANDDUNE offers with its capacity of developing the lower body’s “balance strength“, and core’s strength, lends itself to this type of therapy. We are Sharing a posting about the benefits of “Prehabilitation” before surgery.
‘Prehabilitation‘ prepares patients for hip and knee surgery
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-prehabilitation-patients-hip-knee-surgery.html
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