Your wrists and ankles are so important to your overall mobility! What’s nice about this exercise is that you can do it seated in a chair. Also, this exercise benefits your brain because it incorporates both sides of the body at the same time.
Use your left hand and right foot
Hold your left arm out in front of you, slightly bent at the elbow
Lift your right foot off the floor, and bend at the knee - you can support it with your right hand if you like
Moving them at the same time, spell out a word or words “in the air”
Switch to your right hand and left foot and do the same
Check out this video from Silver Sneakers for a demonstration, which also includes four others excellent exercises.
For our 3rd exercise in this series posted yesterday, click here.
We’ve presented just a few exercises seniors can do to increase their mobility – to maintain as much independence as possible - but there are many others, such as chair yoga and using lightweight dumbbells. Remember…Motion is lotion!
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