Honeybunch1!

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Hi Honeybunch1!

I have a question for you. Do you do ball workouts or use the ball while doing a video? Over the weekend I picked up a book titled, Get On The Ball by Lisa Westlake. Have you read this? Do you recommend any other ball workout books?

If you use your ball as a substitute for the bench, do you find you have greater core strength? Any downfalls to using a ball for weight training? Anything I should be aware of before getting started. This book I have demostrates the exercise and gives pointers for making the exercise easier or more advanced, with helpful posture tips too!

Thanks for your help!
Angie

 

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[honeybunch1]

I don't have any ball workout tapes, like the ones Collage features, (except for those put out by GMP fitness for golf conditioning), but use books and articles from fitness magazines, mostly. Actually, GMP fitness has one just for lower body called No Hip, Thighs, or Butts that I haven't actually used for a workout yet.

IM(humble)O, you can get the best inner thigh workout with the ball, almost as good as using the adductor machine at a gym. I haven't used it so much as a weight bench, but will eventually. There are no downsides to this workout tool - it's cheap and nothing beats it for core work.

Just go slow, read the directions for the exercises carefully, and really watch your form.

 

[slnewmanpt]

Hi Angie!

I thought I'd jump in here and let you know that I got Fitball Upper and Lower Body Challenge vids by Lisa Westlake and they are extremely good. Lots of core work in both upper and lower tapes. If you're interested the website I ordered them from is www.balldynamics.com.
HTH!:+

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Honeybunch1 and Sherry!

Thanks for the info and advice! HB, I will take it easy. I plan to play around with it this weekend. Actually I tried it last night while doing Power Hour! I only tried one exercise, those bent over lat raises. I think that's what they're called. I am usually splitting my focus between my back posture and handling the weights. It was so much more comfortable and I was able to put my full concentration into the back work. I'll have to try that again.

Sherry, the book I have is by Lisa Westlake! Sounds like I made a great choice at the bookstore! I'll check out that site for tapes/ideas. The book is great. A nice stand alone book. It has routines at the end - upper body, lower body, abs, core, stretching - and there's two plans for each, beginner and advanced. I like it!

Once I learn what I need to know I plan to use the ball mostly during upper moves in the video workout. For instance, instead of sitting on my step stool/box while performing shoulder presses, lateral raises or that seated clean and press move in one of the PS workouts. That's porobably not the roght term but I bet you get an idea of what I'm trying to say!

Thanks for all your help!
Angie