The 2 For 1 Workout

I found a pretty awesome workout demonstration video for today’s blog that visually depends some of the rubber ball exercises I’ve been talking about. The rubber ball is referred to as the “stability ball”, which is probably the correct term. The great thing about a stability ball workout is you’re increasing the dynamics of your weight training which is something this blog as emphasized previously.

Think about it, why just work biceps, when you can work biceps, balance, and core, etc. The stability ball allows you to still workout and stress your biceps but at the same time you’re forcing your body to gain better strength and balance because your body weight is not completely relaxed. You must properly balance yourself before you can even get to the curls and you also must keep your balance throughout the exercise.

Now one note – I did not like the way he did the chest press. I would have kept more of my body on the ball just because I don’t like taking the emphasis away from your pectorals and I think because most of us have weaker cores, our energy would be split in half with creating a large gap, bridging away from the stability ball. It’s not wrong or bad, but it’s a bigger divide than I would prefer. For example, I think an 85/15 – 80/20 split of focus/energy is ideal because you still want to keep your primary focus on 1 muscle group (if that is indeed your goal which on this blog it is). I really do like the video though and I love the idea of creating a more athletic body rather than just pumping curls.

More on my workout tomorrow.