Medicine Ball Workouts and the Many Benefits

Written By Unknown on dimanche 5 août 2012 | 04:19

By Michelle Destefano


Medicine Ball Workouts afford an individual many benefits. Condensing all of these benefits into a list of five was not an easy task, but a task worth undertaking. As such, below is a list of 5 advanatages of medicine ball workouts. Have fun!

1. Functional Strength- It is one of the most effective tools to train all of the muscle groups in your body; especially your stabilizer muscles to work together for functional strength. This is an athletic advantage that isolation lifting does not provide. Over time, your body will learn to become more efficient with full body exercises.

2. Combined Cardiovascular and Strength Training-The appropriate medicine ball training regimen will elevate intesity and imrove training efficiency. If this training is done correctly, one's target heart rate will be maintained throughout, and his or her muscles will be worked to exhaustion. In doing so, your cardio will improve, you'll become stronger, and your muscles will be able to perform more workload.

3. Versatility- The most important component to a beneficial workout is assortment. With a virtually endless arsenal of excercises at your disposal, and the unencumbered portability of a medicine ball; the flexibility of training is unmatched. Further, movements can be used to improve specific sport requirements.

4. Provides Unique Loads on Your Muscles and Increases Hand Eye Coordination- When a medicine ball is thrown to you or by you, the path it travels is never exactly the same. Therefore, you catch it at a different place every time. This fact forces different muscle groups to balance your body and control the ball for each catch. This trains your body to react faster to catch and control the load.

5. Adds Variety and Lets You Revisit Your Youth- In addition to the physical advantages of medicine ball training, there are a few psychological benefits. The use of a new piece of equipment does wonders for reviving a run-of-the-mill fitness program. Since medicine balls are so versatile, the exercises you can do with them are limitless. As such, persons of all ages, fitness experience and fitness goals, can benefit from the use of medicine ball workouts. Further, medicine balls have a playful quality, which make them fun. To that point, they're one of the few fitness tools that make you feel like a kid again.

6. Inexpensive- Ok, so consolidating to a top-5 list was more difficult than I imagined. Besides, this item is not fitness related, but is certainly a consideration for the majority of us. Relatively speaking, medicine balls are a very inexpensive fitness tool. Couple the medicine ball with the proper medicine ball workouts, and you can accomplish the above benefits on a budget; sans the residual gym membership dues.




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