1. A Universal Exercise Aid
Exercise ball workouts are safe for most people to use. An exercise ball workout is easily adapted to work with virtually any medical condition. Exercise balls provide support while still allowing your body to balance naturally. This makes your workout more effective without causing undue stress on your body. Many exercise ball workouts are low impact so they are even good for people with arthritis and other bone and joint conditions.
2. Work Your Core
An exercise ball workout will help you to improve your balance. In addition, you will gain muscle strength and flexibility. This is because when you work out using an exercise ball, your core muscles such as your abdominal and back muscles have to work to keep you steady on the ball. As your core muscles work, your balance will become better. Working your core muscles will also improve your posture. Simply sitting on your exercise ball and bouncing up and down works your core muscles especially if you place your hands on your sides when you are doing the exercise.
3. Get a Full Body Workout
When you are doing an exercise ball workout program, you will usually get a full body workout. It is possible to exercise your arms using your exercise ball by doing over the head extensions while balancing on the ball or while holding the ball. Your stomach, chest and back can benefit from an exercise ball workout program when you do exercises lying down on the ball. Your legs benefit from the program when you use the exercise ball to do leg lifts or balancing exercises.
4. Do Portable Exercise
Exercise ball workouts can be done anywhere that you can carry your exercise ball. If you travel, you can bring your exercise ball along for a workout. Simply deflate it, pack it and re-inflate it in your hotel room. You can get a workout all day at work if you have a desk job and a boss that doesn't mind you sitting on an exercise ball. You can get a workout while you watch television by doing your workout in front of the television. If you have children who participate in sports, you can use your exercise ball as a chair at their events. You can even get a workout while you rock an infant to sleep by holding him and gently bouncing or rocking on your exercise ball.
5. Workout to Aid Rehabilitation
Exercise ball workouts are prominent in many rehabilitation programs. Long before exercise balls were popular with the public, they were in physical therapy rooms at hospitals, rehabilitation centers, physical therapy offices, nursing homes and orthopedic clinics. If you want to use an exercise ball workout as part of your rehabilitation program for an injury or after surgery, talk to your doctor or a physical therapist about what exercises are appropriate in your case.
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