Improve Coordination for Seniors & Beginners, Brain Body Exercises

Hey there, April of Yes to Next here with my mom, Michael. Hi. Now, coordination is super important. You know, connecting your brain with your body. Now, we often have these challenges, right, in our workouts. Like, oh, right, left, all this stuff. One of my challenges. Yeah, that's right. So that's what we're going to do today. It's a gentle mind-body coordination workout. Now, you can do this by itself every day, or you can even use it as a warm-up, you know, to work out. Just to get the body moving and get that whole brain-body connection going. Okay, all right. So, mom, any thoughts on this? No, I need it. I need coordination. All right. Yeah, we all need that. It's really good to practice this. All right, so we'll take a pause here and get started. All right, so we're basically going to do three sets of five little exercises. So we're going to do them five times so you can get really good at it. Okay, you ready for this? Yeah. All right, so here we go. First move, hands spread out in front of you. Cross the chest, okay? Okay. Give me a snap with the opposite kick. I can't snap. Snap with the opposite kick. And a slap, okay? Then opposite arm, opposite knee. I almost did this myself, okay? Opposite arm, opposite knee. Okay, that's the first set. Okay. Let's go. All right. Can't snap, that's okay. It's all about just emotion, right? Yeah, my fingers. It's funny. All right. Add sound effects. You can add sound effects if you want. I used to be able to snap. Yeah, what happened? I think I'm losing my fingerprints or something. That happens. So smooth. It'll be hard to identify, so be good. Yeah, that's true. I got to be careful. That's right. Okay, so here we go. Let's do it again. Hands out. Cross the chest. Snap opposite kick. Opposite kick. Doing it. All right. Give me a slap on the thighs, okay? Opposite arm. Opposite knee. Yep. Opposite arm. Opposite knee. Oh, gotcha. I gotcha. Actually, it's this way. Opposite arm, opposite knee, right? There you go. That's it. No, opposite arm. Okay. Opposite arm, opposite knee. Hey, your other knee was up. Like this. Right. Opposite arm, opposite knee, right? Yeah, so it gets your... Should we start over? No. Okay, we're going to do another set. We're going to do three more sets of this, so we're going to get good at it. All right. Hands out. Cross the chest. Snap and kick. Opposite arm, opposite leg. Snap and kick. Slap. Okay. Opposite arm, opposite knee. Yep. Opposite arm. Opposite knee. And down and rest. Nice. Got it? All right. Sure, sure, sure. I got it. All right. Got another chance here. Let's do it. Okay. Hands spread out. Cross the chest. Snap, opposite kick. Yeah. Snap, opposite kick. All right. Slap. Opposite arm, opposite leg. Yep. Opposite arm, opposite knee up. And down. Okay. My brain is tired already. All right. I'm going to give you one more chance. Get this 100%. Right? You ready? Yep. Okay. Hands out. Cross the chest. Snap and kick. Okay. Good. Slap. Opposite arm, opposite knee. And rest. Okay. Nice work. Keep doing this. It's all about practice, everybody. Okay. Set two. Okay. We're sitting there. Feet are hip distance apart. Take a breath. Very nice. Okay. This one is thumbs up. Slap your thighs. Opposite arm, opposite leg out. And center. Opposite arm, opposite arm. Center. Okay. I want you to stomp it with the right. Punch left. Stomp it with the left. Punch right. Give me a clap. Got it? Yeah. All right. I see your cogs and wheels moving. I'm thinking. All right. You ready to do this, Anne? Yeah. Okay. Thumbs up. Slap. Opposite arm, opposite leg out. And down. Opposite arm, opposite leg out. Right and down. Give me that stomp on the right. Punch it left. Stomp on the left. Punch it right. And clap. Nice. Ready? Yeah. Let's do it. Thumbs up. Slap. Opposite arm, opposite leg out. And down. I'm speeding it up a little. Opposite arm, opposite leg out. And down. Stomp it right. Punch left. Stomp it left. Punch right. Clap. Got it? Yeah. All right. Give me. We're gonna do it two more times because we're gonna do it quicker. Okay. Thumbs up. Slap. Opposite arm out. Leg. Good. Opposite arm. Good. Stomp it right. Punch it left. Stomp it left. Punch it right. Clap. Excellent. This is like memory game. That it is too. Okay. It's working the brain. Okay. Yeah. Are you ready? Okay. Here we go. Last round of this one. Okay. Thumbs up. Slap. Opposite arm. Opposite leg out. In. Opposite arm. Opposite leg out. Good. Stomp it right. Give me a punch. Stomp it left. Give me a punch. Clap. Yay. Nice work, everybody. 52 pickup. You remember that game? Yeah. Do you remember? What was that thing with the pickup sticks? Remember? Pickup sticks. That was a tough one. Okay. All right. Here's the last round, everybody. Thank you. Is your brain getting tired? My brain's tired now. Good. You're getting your brain to work out. That's awesome. Okay. Here we go. Now, we got to really protect ourselves so we don't hit a severed head. It's huge. Shoulders. Yeah. Press it out to the side. All right. Kick with the goalpost arm. Opposite arm. Yes. Down. Kick out. Goalpost arm. Okay. Now, this is a double one. Double jack and arms up. Feet out. And in. Okay. Ready? Snap. I didn't hear your snaps, but that's okay. I saw your snaps. You're not going to hear it either. Clickety-click. Okay. This is a haircut. Here we go again. Shoulders. Press it out. Goalpost arm right. Goalpost arm left. Both feet. Jack it out. Arms up. Yes. Oh, mom, that's good. Down. Snap it. Good job. All right. You're getting good at this. Yeah, yeah. Right. Three more sets. Here we go. Shoulders. Press it out. Goalpost arm right. Kick it out. Goalpost arm left. Kick it out. Right. Both feet. Both arms. Up. Down. Snap. Nice. You're getting the hang of this. Yeah. Good job. Right at the end. That's good. Yeah. Big finish, everyone. All right. Okay. Shake it out. You're doing great. Okay. Just like loosen it up. We're heading into the home stretch. Just two more sets. Okay. Here we go. Shoulders. Press it out. Goalpost arm. Kick out. Football season. Goalpost arm. Kick out. Very good. Both arms and feet. Jack it up. Yes. And down. Give me that snap. And a snap. Rest. Okay. Are you ready for this final, final, final, huh? Okay. We're not done yet? Getting one more. One more set. Sound like you want to get done with this. No, you're not. My brain is tired. All right. You're doing great. All right. Shoulders. Press it out. Goalpost arm. Kick out. Goalpost arm. Kick out. Goalpost arm. Kick out. All right. Both. Jack it out. Good. In. Snap it. Very good. All right. Listen, I'm going to do it one more time because I saw you kind of like... Pick up on that last one. All right. So one more for extra credit, everybody. Okay. Here we go. Shoulders. Press it out. Goalpost right. Goalpost left. In. Arms and feet. Down. Snap it. Done. Nice work, everybody, on this coordination workout. So proud of you. Again, this can be done any day, any time of day, any day. Before a workout or by itself. Okay. So that's right. It's like one of these things, right? When we were small, we used to do this. That's right. Grab our nose and ear at the same time. Or this one, right? This is coordination. That's right. How about this one? Yeah. Okay. This is extra credit, everybody. I'm going to switch now. That's extra credit right at the end here. All right. Listen, great job. If you like this video, give it a like. Share a comment and share it with your friends. We love to help you and help all of your friends. It's good for the brain. That's right. So thank you so much for joining us. Take good care of your brain and keep moving. I'll see you soon. See you soon.