The problems mentioned above are extremely important, as the USA statistics show, where there occur about 300.000 hip fractures every year, in most cases their cause being the lack of poise. Very rigorous studies have clearly proven that people who regularly practice balance exercises have lowered the incidence of accidents caused by the lack of poise, because these exercises help them move safely. Due to several reasons related to the structure and the nervous control of the statokinetic system we are dealing with overlapping between the development of strength and balance, and not seldom do these exercises serve both aspects. Exercises of mobility and flexibility. They represent a great necessity because the Old’s musculature becomes rigid and the articulations “anchylosed”, which leads to moves lacking in coordination, natural and inefficient, rising the risk of the individual`s collapse, even in the case of one`s walking on a flat surface. For this reason, out of any program conceived for the old, stretching must not be forgotten. When strength does not significantly improve, stretching exercises, regularly practiced and with abidance by the specialist`s indications, bring the old more efficiency, stability, safety, in other words more freedom in executing daily moves.