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This exercise works the legs and core muscles, while helping to improve balance.
Step 1: Stand with an exercise ball to your right. Place your hands on your hips and look straight ahead. Shift your weight to your left leg, raise you right leg, and gently place your right foot on top of the ball.
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This exercise works the deltoid (the muscle covering the shoulder joints), the trapezius (the muscle over the back of the neck and shoulder blades), and the core.
Step 1: Holding a dumbbell in each hand, sit down on an exercise ball with your feet flat on the floor, knees bent at a 90-degree angle. Bend forward at the hips so that your torso is parallel to the floor and let your arms extend downward, so that they are parallel to your calves. Keep your abdominals contracted at all times.
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This exercise strengthens the shoulder girdle, while developing the core muscles and improving stability.
Step 1: Kneel in front of an exercise ball. Place your hands and forearms on top of the ball - your palms should be touching each other with fingers pointing out. Form a triangle on the ball, with your elbows spread to form the base and your palms forming the tip.
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Using an exercise ball (also called physioball, swiss ball, stability ball, strength ball) can be a great way to add creativity to a workout. Durable and inexpensive, they are designed to help strengthen the muscles that aid in maintaining balance and stability.
Exercise balls can be found at most department or sporting goods stores or can be ordered online. Choosing the right size for your needs is important, as is proper inflation. When properly inflated, pressing down with one finger should create a slight dent. For those already familiar with ball training or looking for a more advanced workout, using slightly more air provides a greater stability challenge, while less air makes it easier to balance yourself.
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Introduction
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Personal trainer James Hollenkamp was explaining a stretching exercise to two clients - teenage soccer players Kate Hopkins and Phoebe Shields.
Toes on the ground, chest against the ball, thumbs up, then put your arms in a T," said Hollenkamp, 30, as the two girls began to position themselves with the help of a giant exercise ball.
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What is it, and what can you do with it?
If you've ever noticed that unusual piece of exercise equipment at your gym - the one that looks like half an inflatable exercise ball - these questions may have crossed your mind.
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It's time to blow the whistle on an issue that involves a lot of contact - too much contact really.
The game that college basketball has become isn't pretty. It's too often wrestling with a ball. It's a physical sport that has become far too physical.
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DERRY, N.H. -- "The measure of a life is the people you love," Mitt Romney says, describing what family means to him. "This is a big part of the family I love.
He sits in a basement exercise room at Pinkerton Academy, surrounded by wife Ann, eldest son Tagg, daughter-in-law Jennifer, and grandsons Joe, 10, Thomas, 8, and Jonathan, a rambunctious 18- month-old rolling a blue exercise ball twice his size.