Fun Moves to Reshape Your Body With an Exercise Ball Workout

Remember how much fun it was to play with a ball when you were a child? A simple ball was an inexhaustible source of inspiration and activity. And it still is. With a stability ball can be a difficult way for a change and fun to be able to add the training.

Stability balls, also known as physio balls, Swiss balls, balls, or adaptation of known - are large vinyl balls are used to strengthen and stretch the body, improving core stability and balance are.

"I called the gym ball one piece of major equipment for fitness," says Jonathan Ross, the American Council on Exercise (ACE) 2006 Personal Trainer of the Year. "Everyone should work, or have one with," says Ross, owner of Aion Fitness in Bowie, Maryland. "It is incredibly versatile, not bulky, and is a very small investment." You can not hit on the exercise ball team, he says.

In addition to using the exercise ball with personal training clients, Ross has taught a dance class in your personal training studio.

"I never get bored with the gym ball," says Ross. "It keeps me from repeating the same exercise over and over again." There is no finish line when the ball, "he says." There is always another level, provided a way to make a more difficult exercise. "

Working with an exercise ball is the traditional strength training to a new level, says Neal Pire, MA, FACSM, director of the Parisi Speed ​​School in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, a school based on the performance of athletes from the age of 6.

"It is a balance tool is a great workout," says Pire.

Take a traditional bicep curl or a squat and do the exercise ball, says Pire, and is a full-body training, demanding and strength of the muscles of your body simultaneously.

"We have these things called proprioceptors," says Pire, author of Plyometrics: Explosive training for athletes of all ages, "and his job is to tell the body to the brain, which is the body in space and time to connect to is."

Proprioceptors communicate all of the site of a compound of the voltage into a muscle at a certain time, so Pire. Sending messages to the spinal cord and brain to control the action or movement in any way. When performing exercises exercises ball, you are stimulating and challenging proprioceptors body stability and balance during exercise, he says.

They are also stimulating the core muscles - the deep back muscles, pelvic, abdominal and low - are the essential to good posture and balance control and movement, says Pire.

The ball stimulates the smaller muscles and stability, says Ross, is used in addition to the muscles in motion.