Fitness Ball Exercises

By Aditi | October 21, 2011 7:34 am |
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Fitness ball or Swiss Exercise balls have indeed brought a kind of revolution in the way exercise these days. You can perform a number of exercises for whole body toning using fitness balls. Read on to learn about some very effective fitness ball exercises.womanonfitnessball1

The first popular exercise that women and men can perform using a fitness ball is the elevated push up exercise. For this you need to place the front of your knees on the ball and support your body weight by putting your hands on the floor making sure that your body is in parallel to the floor. Now, lower your body and do a regular pushup and inhale while going down and exhale while moving upwards.

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Squatting with Ball Exercise

By Aditi | September 16, 2011 9:34 am |
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Whether you agree or not, squatting is an effective way of exercising and it can be made more interesting using a ball. Yes, Swiss exercise balls make squatting more effective and interesting for health conscious people. This ball allows you to squat anywhere, be it at home with ease.ballsquats

All you need is to take the help of a ball to support your back for deeper squats. Now, stand with a ball between your lower back and a wall. After this, squat down while pressing against the ball for support. Make sure to keep your feet firm and far away from the wall to keep the knees behind your toes when you lean back in to a squat.

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Best Ball Exercises

By Aditi | July 17, 2010 9:54 pm |
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You all will agree that exercising can be done in different ways using different items, but nothing is as exciting as using a Swiss ball for exercising. Read on to know some of the best ball exercises in this article.

Plank Ball Exercise: Try out the plank ball exercise for strengthening your lower back. Just lie on your stomach on the ball placed on the ground. Then, squat in front of it placing your stomach on it and pushing your feet while keeping your hands on the floor for balance. Try to squat holding for 10 breaths.

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Ball Pikes: Exercise of the week

By Aditi | November 27, 2009 7:18 pm |
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Want to feel better? Do you want your liveliness and conceivably even survive longer? Look no further than doing regular exercise. If you are looking for a new way to work the abs using an exercise ball, ball pikes are great for aiming steadiness, firmness and, core strength. Ball pikes are a more superior version of the tucks and involve the use of abs to pull your body into a hilltop position with the legs erect. This is a sturdy move and so you should feel very contented via an exercise ball. You can always amend the move by keeping the knees slightly bent and only lifting the hips a few inches.

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Lying Ball Squeeze

By Aditi | November 20, 2009 7:09 pm |
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Tone your inner thigh muscles and core performing this lying ball squeeze.

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Back Extension With Ball

By Aditi | June 26, 2009 5:53 pm |
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Back extension exercises are an excellent way of exercise that makes you feel having fit and healthy spine. The back extension with ball exercise not only helps condensing pain, tautness and inflexibility but also makes you feel young and full of liveliness. But while doing the exercise keep in mind one thing that if the exercise is not performed correctly that it may disturb your spine and create more problems. So here I am to help you out by giving you the right steps to perform the exercise correctly.

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Dumbbell Reverse Flys Seated on Ball

By Aditi | June 21, 2009 4:17 pm |
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Tone your upper body muscles by practicing dumbbell reverse fly’s seated on ball regularly. The steps to perform the exercise rightly is described below.

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Take a ball and balance yourself by sitting on the ball with your feet placed flat on the ground.

Hold dumbbells in both your hands with the palms facing inwards.

Bend yourself leaning your chest and spine in downward direction and place your hands besides both the feet.

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Exercise of the week: Crunches on Ball

By Aditi | May 15, 2009 8:43 pm |
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Get strong and sexy abs by doing these crunches on ball. Tone your abdomen muscles by balancing yourself on the ball and performing crunches. Below are the steps to perform crunches on the ball.

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Exercise ball curls

By Aditi | April 11, 2009 7:31 pm |
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No big machines or investment required. It is an excellent bodyweight exercise for beginners like you and me. So let’s check out the steps for doing the exercise.

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  • Start the exercise by lying down straight on your back.
  • Place a large ball under your heels as shown in the figure.
  • Lift your hip and make sure that the knees are not bent.
  • Place the hands on the floor.

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Clamshell Crunch with Ball

By Aditi | March 6, 2009 3:42 pm |
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Want to have sexy and stout abs? Perform Clamshell Crunch with ball and get sturdy abs.

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· Lie down straight on a mat.

· Hold a ball between your legs with the knees folded.

· Place your hands behind the ears in a crunch position.

· Get sure of your abs being erect and taut.

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