Postural Retraining™ is an incremental method that emphasizes simple positions, small movements, and increased duration. Presented with photographic illustrations and easy to follow instructions, the exercises are simple enough for everyone to understand and execute.

Locker has created an enlightening and uncomplicated guide that explains why we need to work on our balance and the detailed instructions on how to improve it. They emphasize simple but challenging weight-bearing positions, small movements, and increased duration. It explains how athletes in sports such as surfing and skiing remain stable and upright, and the implications for balance exercises.Essential for this kind of work is tone, and it’s clear in Locker’s eloquent and confident presentation that he truly believes in the system of Postural Retraining, which will certainly be empowering for the reading audience to feel in his words.

If you have older relatives, you will completely understand the problems that arise when a loved one suffers a fall.Falling Is Not an Option: A Way to Lifelong Balance is a groundbreaking examination of the widely misunderstood subject of human balance. A stable and balanced walk with zero falls should be everyone's goal, but as we age, our agility and steadiness decrease. Falling Is Not an Option: A Way to Lifelong Balance is a nonfiction health and fitness book written by George Locker. What are the myths and misconceptions of balance, how can you maintain a strong posture, and what are the common reasons for the deterioration of balance as you get older? Be sure to tell the author who you are, what organization you are with, how many books you need, how they will be used, and the number of reviews, if any, you would be able to provide.

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Falling Is Not an Option begins by exploring the nature of balance: its inherent beauty, its elusive source, its necessity, and its common loss late in life. The postures and exercises – which do not have to be memorized and can be done at home - emphasize simple positions and small movements that are appropriate for those who have mobile impairments, including several exercises that acknowledge the common elderly struggle to sit down and stand up. This author is willing to donate free copies of their book in exchange for reviews (if circumstances allow) and the knowledge that their book is being read and enjoyed. No matter how strong and skillful my classmates and I became, Master Yu stayed well ahead of us, even into his 80’s!The Postural Retraining Routine is discussed in full, and photographs are included of each movement and change in position. I also loved that he had a glossary at the end so I did not have to look up words, but it was pretty easy to read. The second part of the book presents 15 weight-bearing postures and exercises, described in words, and illustrated with 122 sequential photos of the author demonstrating how to perform them.