1. Makes Your Gym Workouts More Productive exercise-ball-office-chair
Most people don’t engage their core in their workouts. Some people don’t even know how! The ball forces you to learn, you cant sit on the ball properly without engaging your core muscle group. By training your body to engage these muscles, you will not only be more likely to do it when you hit the gym, but able to do it more effectively. As with anything, it takes practice to engage these muscles, the more you do it, the better you get.
2. It improves posture ( A LOT)
there is no back to the ball. If you don’t sit up, you fall off, plain and simple.
3. Increases balance
All of your core muscles are working to keep you where you are. It takes a lot of work to keep you on that ball, when reaching for a pen, or turning to talk to a co-worker. Even Typing can cause some movement. They have to work to keep you balanced. By training these muscles to keep you stable, you will strengthen them. This will translate into other aspects of your life too!
4. Burns an extra 350 to 400 calories a day (without doing anything but sitting!)
Your muscles are working constantly to keep you balanced on the ball. Even if it doesn’t feel like it (which it probably will at first) you are working Read the rest of this entry »
