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title: Stay Active at Home - Strength and balance exercises for older adults
teacher: The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
runtime: 4 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/stay-active-at-home-strength-and-balance-exercises-for-older-n8s-8KtfgFM
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Stay Active at Home - Strength and balance exercises for older adults

4 min with The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. Standing, and safe to do holding a chair. Works for balance and leg strength. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8s-8KtfgFM

- **Runtime**: 4 min (235 seconds, verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02)
- **Posture**: Standing, and safe to do holding a chair
- **Style**: A mix of families, or drills that do not sit inside one form
- **Trains**: balance, leg strength
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks
- **Intensity**: gentle
- **Phases it can fill**: Balance
- **Teaching style**: talks you through each movement as you go
- **Spoken language**: English

Tai Chi places this class into a session automatically rather than asking you to choose it: https://tai-chi.app