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Original SANDDUNE™

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How does SANDDUNE™ work?


The Original SANDDUNE™ enables your ability to respond to your environment like no other piece of exercise equipment. It challenges your response by providing a “mobile” walking surface that is constantly shifting and changing due to the movement of your own body. It wakes up your senses that tell you where you are in space, how much effort is required and which muscles you need to use to maintain balance. Walking in place on the SANDDUNE™ requires your muscles and brain to react both quickly and constantly. Faster reaction time improves your balance, coordination and mobility. This translates into better reflexes and improved use of your body in general.

Ball Work


A suggested low impact full body workout for the person with good balance can include a weighted fitness ball of 2- 20 pounds or a large fitness exercise ball. The preference is yours. This balance training exercise will challenge you with either type of ball. Make sure to work both the uphill and downhill slopes of the SANDDUNE™.

To begin, start tossing a small ball hand to hand, while padding or jogging is a good way to begin orienting your balance to this workout. Remember to pick a focus point; this will help you keep up your sense of balance as you train to improve your coordination and strength. Next, do side stretches holding the ball over your head, followed by gentle forward bending stretches for the back and hamstrings finishing with arching and leaning back to open up the front of the body.  You will want to have a wall or barre (something supportive) near you for these exercises.  Use of the ball with forward or back bends is based on how you feel about using the ball with these movements. Adding hips circles will get the knees and hip joints warmed up.

As a workout, try Figure 8 movements (small or large figure 8) or full body circles alternating directions with completion of each revolution. Do these while slowly padding, again taking care to do an equal amount of time on the uphill and downhill slopes. For example, make it a count of 5-20 circles on both slopes. Try circling a small ball around your core as you pad or jog. As you become more balanced and stronger, try passing the small ball under your leg for 1-2 minutes. This will challenge and strengthen your balance.

Hips


The unique capabilities of the SANDDUNE™ allow the whole body to move as a unit.  As the feet  compress the pads of the balance tool, the “sand-like” feeling of imbalance is created by the exclusive rebounding material, gently causing the foot and ankle to correct themselves for balance.  Because of the motion generated, the core responds and the “ripple” effect of the human body balancing itself begins.

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.

Fall Prevention


“If you avoid physical activity because you are afraid it will make a fall more likely, tell your doctor. He or she may recommend carefully monitored exercise programs or refer you to a physical therapist.

Introducing the SANDDUNE™


Welcome to the SANDDUNE™.  We will be posting information about and updates about the SANDDUNE™ Balance Apparatus and its multi-faceted uses as  it applies to different categories of users. We look forward to being a part of your new approach in your quest to rebuild your fitness and strength or enhancing your fitness level and strength.