The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy - Podcast
The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy is your source of practical, uplifting, and science-rooted guidance for living a stronger, safer, and more confident life — at any age.
Hosted by Tracy Markley, internationally recognized fitness educator, award-winning author, stroke recovery specialist, and creator of the bestselling books The Stroke Recovery Workbook, Brain & Body, and Balance Walking and Fall Prevention, this podcast blends expertise with heart. Tracy’s decades of experience helping stroke survivors, seniors, and everyday adults rebuild strength, balance, mobility, and hope shine through every episode.
Whether you’re looking to improve your proprioception, feel steadier on your feet, better understand your body, prevent falls, recover from injury, or simply age with power and grace, this show gives you real tools — not fluff. Tracy brings compassion, clear explanations, and encouraging motivation to help you feel capable, empowered, and ready to move forward.
🎧 Tune in for:
- Balance, gait, and fall-prevention tips
- Stroke recovery insights from one of the most trusted voices in the field
- Fitness and mobility guidance for seniors and pre-seniors
- Brain–body education and nervous system support
- Strength training, walking programs, and functional movement
- Real stories from people who regained independence and confidence
- Encouragement, mindset support, and realistic strategies you can use today
- Hearing loss
- Fitness and exercise for all ages
- Muscles, joints, ligaments, fascia and more
- and much more
⭐ Learn More & Stay Connected
Website: https://www.tracymarkley.com
Books by Tracy Markley: https://www.amazon.com/author/tracymarkley
YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@TracyMarkley
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tracy.markley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyfitt
⭐ Your Host
Tracy Markley is a fitness trainer, educator, and author known for blending anatomy, neuroscience, and compassion to help others move better and live better. Her work has transformed lives around the world — from stroke survivors rebuilding mobility to adults who simply want their body to feel like home again
The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy - Podcast
Balance & Fall Prevention: The Muscles That Keep You Stable & Spatial Awareness
Good balance is not an accident — it’s the result of specific muscles working together with spatial awareness, posture, and brain-body communication.
In this educational episode, fitness professional and author Tracy L. Markley explains the key muscles involved in balance and fall prevention, and why strengthening these muscles is essential for safe movement at any age.
Tracy breaks down how the brain uses spatial awareness (proprioception) to understand where the body is in space, and how weak or underused muscles can disrupt alignment, stability, and confidence. You’ll learn how the hips, glutes, core, feet, and legs all play crucial roles in balance — and how targeted training can dramatically reduce fall risk.
This episode gives listeners a deeper understanding of their body and empowers them with knowledge that can improve safety, mobility, and independence.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
- What spatial awareness (proprioception) is and why it matters
- The specific muscles needed for balance and fall prevention
- How weakness in certain muscles increases fall risk
- The connection between foot strength, hip alignment, and overall stability
- How the brain and body work together to maintain balance
- Why targeted strengthening is more effective than “just trying to balance”
- Practical ways to begin improving balance safely
Whether you’re a senior, stroke survivor, caregiver, or fitness professional, this episode shines a light on the science behind balance — and the muscles that keep us steady.
🌐 LEARN MORE FROM TRACY
Website: www.tracymarkley.com
Amazon Author Page: www.amazon.com/author/tracymarkley
Instagram: www.instagram.com/motivate_healthyfit