Thursday 9 December 2010

Stability Ball For The Abs?

1j ingJuly 26, 2010 at 7:17 pm

I really like your website and I find it very useful, I want to add that I use the swiss bal for clients and myself for warmups and sophisticated complex movements to loosen problems from car accidents or surgery where the body is confused or needs its own body weight to organize itself on its own terms, ie self balancing one’s own weight in full range motions of twists and turns. This is more like dance training or gymnastic or contact improve, pilates, style training. This is of course not high end bodybuilding. Instabilty training is more for recruiting groups of muscle as warm ups or warm downs or for people who find yoga too static. Like comparing yoga to bodybuilding, not right or wrong, but very useful for very specific goals. You are very right that instability ball training or balance boards, do not focus force for heavy weight lifting into the peak contraction. I would just the opposite happens, the instability recruits thousands of tiny muscles of the spine, occiput, and rib cage and coordinates them with the standard core muscle groups in sports training. When i have clients with back pain, if they first warm up slowly with short situps and then increase to full range situps over the whole ball , then normal crunches and bodybuilding exercise can happen without back pain.



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