Health and Fitness Tips

Health and Fitness Tips - Fitness and Exercise Tips - Exercise ball :


The exercise ball is a perfect tool for strengthening so called hard-to-get-to spine muscles. It is also good for improving your balance and overall coordination.


Before starting exercise program you should choose an exercise ball for yourself. Exercises balls have four basic sizes and should be purchased according to your body height.


First of all the exercise ball must be inflated to the point where it becomes firm, however it must have some "give to it. Do not fill your ball until it becomes hard. This "give" is quite necessary to contour to your body shape.


The other thing is that you should give your ball few days to expand to his average full size. Because when the ball is first time inflated it will be a bit smaller that the maximum diameter size. So measure the ball from top to bottom to see whether it is already large enough for your height.


Almost all exercises with a ball demand your knees and hips to be bent at 90 degrees. And keep in mind that all the exercise balls have their own weight limit too.


For your safety during exercise work out program on the ball you should know few things, so called "safety tips".


First of all - these exercises are designed for those people that are in good health, so if you have troubles with that you'd better consult your doctor.


Anyway, you should warm up about 5-10 minutes, so that your heart could start working properly. Start slowly and carefully, because almost all of the exercise demand much more strength and balance than it seems.


It is obvious that you should breathe deeply and slowly. Try not to combine stretching and twisting the spine exercise with bouncing.


Start from the easiest exercise and follow the instructions in the manual or listen to the instructor. Only after polishing these basic movements proceed with the more difficult ball exercises.


If you start experiencing pain, dizziness, cramping or maybe any other symptoms or complaints while working out with the exercise ball - immediately stop what you are doing and consult your instructor or doctor.