Health and Fitness

What size Gymball do you need

What is an Gymball ball?

Gym balls are also known as exercise balls their very versatile and can used for many different types of exercise, one benefit of using a gym ball with dumbells can be that it is a convenient, low cost and space saving way to train at home. It can also improve your strength and burn more calories than using a standard bench because you’ll be using more of your stabilising muscle for support.

Gymballs come in 3 sizes they are.

55cm

65cm

75cm

How do I choose whatGymball to buy?

It depends on your weight and height, the heavier you are the more you will compress the ball, so if you weigh more then you should buy the next size up for your height.

If you are of average weight for your height use the table below to decide which ball to buy.

55cm - 5′1” - 5′8”

65cm - 5′9” - 6′2”

75cm - 6′3” - 6′7”

They’re are balls available for people larger or smaller but this is the most popular sizes of gym ball on the market.

Abdominal Exercises

A lot of people think that the can get a Six pack, washboard type stomach just by doing sit ups they can’t. You can create abdominal muscle by performing just abdominal exercise but to show the muscles requires a lot of fat loss, fat loss can only be achieved by cardiovascular exercise and training some fat loss pills can also help.

Heres some abdominal exercises using a gym or exercise ball

See choosing the right size gym ball

Hover

Kneel facing the ball and place your forearms on the top, Tighten your abdominal muscles. Press down on the ball with your arms to lift your knees of the floor and hold for 60 Seconds.

Reverse crunch

Place your hands on your chest tighten your abdominal muscles and lean back allowing the ball to roll forwards slightly, Hold then reverse the motion coming back up.

Back Extension

Place you stomach on the ball arms out in front of you toes touching the floor for stabilisation and lift your upper body slowly a couple of inches then return to the starting position.

Abdominal Exercises without any equipment

Crunch

Lie flat on the floor knees bent, place your hands on your chest tighten, your abdominal muscles and slowly raise your head and shoulders of the floor hold and return to the starting position.

Oblique Crunches

Like above but put your Knees to the side for one set then put them on the other side for another set