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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.”
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?
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!
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Labor Day 2014 – Original SANDDUNE Celebrates Caregivers
Rehabilitation
Caregivers need to keep their Fitness and Vitality in check!
As more and more Baby Boomer age, their adult children are shouldering caregiving for parents, children and grandchildren simultaneously. As a result many tend to forget to take care of themselves. This holds true for Boomers opting to stay at home preferring care from family, usually the spouse who juggles responsibilities with the adult children.
Fitness and healthy eating become a thing of the past. Oftentimes it is the caregiver that everyone depends on who turns into the patient, becoming incapacitated and unable to care for anyone.
Pad & Short Burst Cardio
Original SANDDUNE™ provides a viable answer for many caregivers who are “home bound” and or juggling time between “generational” needs/demands with little backup support more often than not. It creates discipline and provides that valuable time for focus on fitness at home in a time frame that works even if flexibility is part of the equation. Its there, ready for action.
Senior Citizens
With assistance, the gentle low impact exercise that SANDDUNE™ offers, makes it a Fall Prevention exercise alternative to discuss with the doctor or physical therapist for the parents who are frustrated with reduced physical activity and mobility due to weight gain, surgery, illness or injury inclusive of diabetic neuropathy, Parkinson’s, aching knees, or drop foot.
Fun on the SANDDUNE
The unique benefit of Original SANDDUNE™ is created by its ability to provide “mirror” muscle resistance by simulating walking through loose sand at the beach and the light weight, portability and “squishy” surface make it fun and easy for grandkids to use.
Fitness & Train Low Workout
Begin your simulated “beach workout at home” today. Start slow with padding for 15 minutes twice a day and build from there to maintain or begin building that healthy lifestyle of core balance, muscle strength, fitness, vitality, eating and a brighter outlook on Life with Original SANDDUNE™.
Your Internal GPS
Experiencing weight bearing activity on a compliant surface such as the Original SANDDUNE™, engages use of proprioception otherwise known as your internal GPS. Exercise on this apparatus safely recruits muscle fiber without the traditional tearing that occurs on hard surfaces. This is why we suggest padding for at least 2 weeks to become acquainted with the Original SANDDUNE™’s unconventional surface.
This regimen is
a great alternative to letting the body rest after following the workout/fitness pattern of high intensity workout training without loosing the strength and stamina gained in the high intensity workouts.
Original SANDDUNE™ is also an alternative to beginning a regimen that can be part of addressing neuropathy, common in many with diabetes. It is easy on the feet facilitating and encouraging exercise.
Padding is simply walking but keeping your feet in continual contact with the surface. This is suggested for EVERYONE, including high functioning athletic types. Resist the temptation to jog. Why? Because you are retraining every muscle
and joint in your body including long and short muscles closest to the bone.
This is “mindful” centering with the somatasensory body (whole body meaning bottom of foot to brain) – a new way of educating and retraining the foundation of your physical body (neuro pathways) using Original SANDDUNE#™.
Simply holding on to a bar and learning to stand on one leg with your other foot raised slightly above the pad after you have centered yourself or just standing and learning to create small dime size circles clock-wise and counter-clockwise under your foot, noticing how the sensation moves up your legs into the trunk and into the hip sockets, will help you begin to retrain your foundation.
Learning the subtleties of how the body aligns and connects through the resistance option of both uphill and downhill positions teaches postural integrity. The uphill slope is higher and simulates walking uphill. The downhill slope is lower and simulates walking downhill.
Beginning these exercises slowly and building speed and momentum may not feel like much to start, but the results will definitely make themselves known or felt in a relatively short time as the muscle activation becomes stronger and the movement easier. Once you step off and resume walking on a normal surface, you will begin to notice subtle changes in your posture.
This is your new way of educating and retraining the foundation of your core balance, strength and coordination.
The Networking Maze Tendons and Ligament
Retweet From @ Super Fit Senior
Can regular exercise really cut the risk of degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s?
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Roll Down Stretch with Small Hand Held Exercise Ball
Lunge SANDDUNE style
Elbow Plank
Standing Big Toe Hold
Seated Big Toe Hold
Pilates Single Leg Stretch on Original SANDDUNE
Step Up Rear Lunge
Kettlebell workout on Original SANDDUNE
Celebrate 4th of July with Appreciation
Independence Day is a day to reflect and show appreciation for Liberties we have accessible to us, collectively and individually in America.
This is the Land of Opportunity even in hard times.
Have a Safe and Sane Holiday from the Original SANDDUNE™!
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