Get on the ball to tone and firm your entire body! This unintimidating program shows you how to use a fitness ball in easy-to-understand language. Not only can you reshape and tone your whole body with this program,but you may even change your mind about exercise. Firm up your total body with the hottest exercise tool on the market — the fitness ball. With this workout, you can increase the fun and the effectiveness of your exercise. Because the ball constantly challenges your balance, you have to work your deep, core muscles harder to remain steady. Anyone, regardless of age or fitness level, can use the ball to get a better workout, and that includes you!
Fat-to-Firm Fitness Ball Workout For Dummies offers step-by-step instruction of 15 exercises that work your entire body. Many of the exercises have modifications that make working out at your own level easy to do. This workout incorporates upper-, middle-, and lower-body exercises to help you strengthen muscles, burn more calories daily, improve your posture, and meet your fitness goals. One to two sets of three- to ten-pound dumbbells are recommended, along with a fitness ball.
About the Instructor: Liz Gillies is a fitness professional who has been teaching for more than 15 years, specializing in the Pilates Method and fitness ball training. Liz is the owner of The InsideScoop, a certifying studio for the Physical Mind Institute, and has appeared in other ball exercise videos, including the Zone ball workouts.
Chapter Selection - 1. Start Program/Introduction, 2. Ball Basics, 3. Warm-Up, 4. Seated Leg Extension, 5. Front Lunge, 6. Side Lunge, 7. Side Leg Lift, 8. Hip Swing, 9. Pelvic Lift, 10. Seated Overhead Press, 11. Seated Bicep Curl, 12. Seated Tricep Extension, 13. Chest Fly, 14. C-Curve Scoop, 15. Ball Crunch, 16. Oblique Saw, 17. Ball Back Extension, 18. Perfect Push-Up, 19. Cool-Down, 20. End Credits.
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good workout
By Little Miss Cutey (Melbourne, Australia)
This review is from: Fat to Firm Fitness Ball Workout for Dummies (DVD)
This is the first 'for dummies' workout that I have bought and I really like it. It's a good dvd if you haven't done a ball workout before. You focus on stability and balance and building up your core strength. But because you use weights too, you also get good toning for the whole body. They use your regular overhead presses and ab work too. She gives you optional moves if you want to make it harder or easier and tells you what not to do wrong.
Don't be fooled by thinking you can't get a good workout from a stability ball. You will totally feel this the next day and you will be surprised with exactly how many muscles you in fact worked. I really like this a lot.
