Exercises to reduce your fall risk. Fitness for Seniors, Toronto

Person falling

One in three seniors in Canada fall every year. Most of these falls are preventable.

Vintage Fitness and Staying Active Rehab are running 4 free fall prevention webinars on July 8, 15, 22 and 29th at 10 am. If you have ever done a zoom call and never listened to a webinar it is even easier than a zoom call all you have to do is click on this link to register and you are set:

Webinar Recording

Vintage Fitness personal training clients often ask our training team of 50+ fitness experts to help to improve their balance. As we age balance worsens due to physiological changes in the body such as loss of hairs in the inner ear that help with balance and worsening of depth vision. These changes can’t be prevented but you can do specific exercise to improve what is called your somatosensory balance as well and the strength in your ankles and legs.

Vintage Fitness personal training clients often ask our training team of 50+ fitness experts to help to improve their balance. As we age balance worsens due to physiological changes in the body such as loss of hairs in the inner ear that help with These changes can’t be prevented but you can do specific exercise to improve what is called your somatosensory balance as well and the strength in your ankles and legs.

Below are the best exercises to prevent falls. For safety do these exercises next to a wall in case you lose your balance.

Try the exercises on this live video to easily strengthen your legs, hips and improve your balance.