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BALANCING ACT

Around here we have always considered balance important.

I don't know where it came from. Not a fact base. Some kind of oral fitness tradition, I think.

We take great pains to find common everyday balance opportunities.

Putting on my shorts is a good one.

Stand on one leg unaided to pull up the shorts one leg at a time. Like that.

Stand on one leg to unlace and take a sneaker off. A sock. Just don't unlace the sock.

Now, we are proven to be right.

Preserving a Fundamental Sense: Balance

I can do the test...one leg up arms folded across the chest...for a minute.

Not bad.

Try it. You don't have to tell what you got.

If you don't have a minute, there are some simple exercises but I like the chore based ones.

Put on your shorts. Take off your shoes and socks. Hold it! Right there in the middle of the balance task.

As good as a formal exercise which, from my personal experience, is like flossing. It will not get done.

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