If a regular fitness ball doesn’t do much for you (I mean, after all, it’s just a ball…) and the peanut exercise ball isn’t floating your boat, you might want to try a fitness ball with handles. The Danskin Core Ball Plus is designed to be pretty much all you need to do a complete upper body workout. The “handles” of which I speak are actually balls attached to rubber tubing, so you can do all sorts of resistance exercises, such as bench press and military press, while balancing your weight on the ball. And if all that balancing just sounds tedious, you can make use of the “balance ring” that comes with it. The round tube can rest around the bottom of the ball to stabilize it (though I think that would defeat a lot of the purpose of using a fitness ball, as they’re meant to make you utilize more core muscles even when doing isolated exercises such as military presses).
Anyway, the Danskin ball costs $40 and is available from fitnessem.
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