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 Posted: 11/23/04 - 12:08 Post subject: Stability ball favorites?
What are your favorite stability ball exercises?
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Posted: 11/23/04 - 12:36 Post subject:
Pushups
Crunches (with and without weights)
Kneeling on it and playing catch with a medicine ball and another partner on a ball.
Standing on it
Kneeling on it and playing catch with myself
Doing my arm workouts with weights while kneeling on it
It's a great multifunctional item that I think everyone can incorporate into their workout routines.
HH, what's your favorites?
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Posted: 11/23/04 - 12:44 Post subject:
I'm looking for ideas. 
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Posted: 11/23/04 - 14:33 Post subject:
check out the ball exercises on here:
http://www.e-weightloss-fitness.com/
they're throughout, but the abdominal ones are KILLER! I love "the PIKE."
and you won't mind looking at the pictures either... 
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Posted: 11/23/04 - 14:48 Post subject:
| bpdou wrote: | | and you won't mind looking at the pictures either... |
 Some are overexposed though.
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Posted: 12/06/04 - 08:58 Post subject:
The ball she is using is too BIG for her. I cannot believe they let her use that thing. The exercises look great, but the ball looks to big and bulky.
Her legs should be at 90 degrees. Their is no way she is gtting a complete crunch with her legs that high.
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Posted: 12/06/04 - 09:30 Post subject:
My favorite is using the ball at the smith machine (for stability, you could use something else though). I put the bar on the SM at the lowest position, ball in the small of your back, lay back so you can grab the SM bar arms fully extended, your body nearly paralell to the floor. Now raise your legs straight up to the ceiling then back down. A good test of core strength here and my absolute favorite advanced ab exercise. I do 3-4 sets of 12-15. Can strain the lower back if you have the ball to high on your back and not as effective if you have it to low either.
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Posted: 12/07/04 - 15:28 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | My favorite is using the ball at the smith machine (for stability, you could use something else though). I put the bar on the SM at the lowest position, ball in the small of your back, lay back so you can grab the SM bar arms fully extended, your body nearly paralell to the floor. Now raise your legs straight up to the ceiling then back down. A good test of core strength here and my absolute favorite advanced ab exercise. I do 3-4 sets of 12-15. Can strain the lower back if you have the ball to high on your back and not as effective if you have it to low either. |
This brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.....
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Posted: 12/07/04 - 15:33 Post subject:
| robp wrote: |
This brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it..... |
It is very difficult. And would no doubt pull in the groin area. Don't do it. Yet.
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Posted: 12/08/04 - 12:52 Post subject:
| marathonrnr262 wrote: | The ball she is using is too BIG for her. I cannot believe they let her use that thing. The exercises look great, but the ball looks to big and bulky.
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Her legs should be at 90 degrees. Their is no way she is gtting a complete crunch with her legs that high.
Sheldon |
oh... yeah... the ball... yeah I guess now that I look at it, you're right. That thing is HUGE.
No but seriously folks, I wondered that myself.
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