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I feel unsure of my balance…
I feel unsure of my balance and need a walker or a cane for support now. My friends tell me that I shuffle my feet. How can the SANDDUNE™ help me?
Working out on the SANDDUNE™ both strengthens and conditions the muscles and the joints of your lower body because it engages those them more fully in the process of walking. In addition it involves muscles of your abdominal core as it activates the sacroiliac joint where your spine connects to the pelvis.
Exercise option to add to your regimen
Why should I try using the SANDDUNE™ instead of the treadmill or elliptical trainer all the time?
SANDDUNE™ is a molded foam exercise device comprised of a blend of two different foam densities. One density allows you to sink into the SANDDUNE™ and the other pushes your foot back up. If walking or exercising on conventional surfaces causes you pain or discomfort in your joints, either during the activity or afterwards, you will be amazed at how comfortable walking on the SANDDUNE™ feels. Especially after wearing high heels or heavy work boots it is an immediate relief and comfort to step on the SANDDUNE™. The uniqueness of its form, angles and materials combined, offer the body greater opportunity to incorporate a higher degree of participation of the small, forgotten muscles involved in proprioceptive system and allows better mobility in the hip joints, knees, ankles and feet.
Another option for exercise
Why are active people in their 50’s and 60’s needing knee and hip joint replacements? Could it have something to do with how we have exercised in the past and into the present?
When you think about it, we live in a very flat world. We walk on hard surfaces. Pavement, flooring, stairs, treadmills and even elliptical trainers do not require the foot to respond in the way that walking on the uneven ground or sand does. In fact all that hard pounding on pavement actually dulls our sensory systems. We have over 90 muscles in our pelvic area, legs and feet. Walking and running on hard, unforgiving surfaces cause the smaller, more sensitive muscles to guard against injury. They protect themselves by no longer participating when we walk. The result is that we use the same large muscles in our legs and buttocks in walking, running, biking and sports over and over. Eventually those overused muscles get stiff and sore, limiting movement in the joints. The result is that we are wearing out the joints of our legs early in our aging process. The SANDDUNE™ offers the option to “train” on a surface that is “easy” on the joints, muscles and tendons.
Exercise on the SANDDUNE
The SANDDUNE™ feels great to the feet and body but be aware to start with a workout suited to your fitness level using care. If you are not able to begin with the 15 minutes a day, twice a day as suggested, and 5 minutes twice a day is your cap, that’s great! That’s your threshold to begin your road to fitness! If you are building or rebuilding strength, try getting on the SANDDUNE for 1 or 2 minutes sporadically throughout the day building from there. Walk by, hop on, go for a quick jog. The key is knowing your body’s capabilities. If under a doctor’s care, talk to your doctor or therapist about your desired goals-they are part of your team on your of building or rebuilding your body.
Because the SANDDUNE™ is made up of hundreds of thousands of reciprocating cells that allow air to be forced out and drawn back in, it takes effort to resist the resistance you are creating by compressing the pads. The elasticity of the apparatus, together with the patented design, compressed from any angle, centers the point of compression so that the energy enters and exits through the same spot. Cells that are compressed last, rebound first, funneling and redefining the energy transfer back to the point of origin. It just does not feel like an effort until you get going, like walking in the deep sand at the beach after 10 or 15 minutes.
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