I don't know who needs to hear this. But if you have disabled people in your life or older people who, while walking unassisted, start saying: "I might fall and not get up again"
I have been like this for three years and it is so constricting. But I also feel that able bodied people can get fatalistic about it all. Sure, maybe you did not need to work out to be able to get up off the floor before. And maybe you're 98 and out of breath. I don't mean you. I mean you, 70+ year old that feels that 'it is part of getting older, you lose things as you age"
No. No no. You don't have to lose it. You didn't have to work at it before and that sucks, but if you have it in you -
I am disabled, I am not strong. But I feel that if I'm lucky I may have too long to live that way, not some 10+ years of inevitable decline... well we start declining at like, 25 so what. And I have the balance and muscle tone of a 70+ year old and if you have in you, train your abs.
Less afraid of slipping in the shower
Less: "But what if I fall down"
Find the softest programme you can find, do chair yoga, go find a personal trainer but train your abdominal muscles. This is not about sex, weight loss, self esteem, it's simply keeping your world open.
Do it. It feels so good. It looks strange and you'll be grunting like a beast in labour but that feeling of contracting your tummy and back muscles and standing up - it's powerful. Everybody takes it completely for granted their whole life but it is powerful and doable.