0428-0446 Gym Ball

GYM BALL

Gym Balls (also known as Fit ball - swiss ball - physio ball - balance ball) are synthetic spheres equipped with an inflation valve and available in 6 different sizes, from 45 to 85 cm in diameter, to meet all customer requirements. The Gym ball, which is fun and versatile, allows you to perform a series of exercises to improve balance, muscle tone and coordination. It can also be used as a chair, at home or in the office, to improve posture.

The Gym Ball is a practical, ductile, innovative and fun tool with which you can create various work programmes for both individual training and group classes, adapting to various individual and target needs.

The main advantage of using this product is our body's active response to the instability of the ball in order to remain in balance, thus engaging all the 'deep' muscles also known as stabilisers. These muscles play a very important role both in everyday life, as they improve posture and prevent the appearance of incorrect postures due mainly to work, and in improving sports performance. It is precisely for these reasons that the Gym ball is one of the most widely used products in functional training.

Its use in functional training and athletic training programmes is mainly due to the great effectiveness with which the core is activated compared to conventional exercises. It is precisely for this reason that it is often included in warm-up and muscle activation routines or in the core phases of training, in combination with strength and/or stabilisation exercises.

Available models:

• cod. 0428 diameter 45 cm - circumference 141 cm
• cod. 0429 diameter 55 cm - circumference 172 cm
• cod. 0431 diameter 65 cm - circumference 204 cm
• cod. 0445 diameter 75 cm - circumference 235 cm
• cod. 0446 diameter 85 cm - circumference 266 cm

Maximum user weight: 120Kg

To store them you can evaluate the Gym Ball Display code 0459or, for larger quantities, the Storage Rack code 0449:

Display code 0459

Storage Rack code 0449

Benefits of using the Gym Ball

Gym Ball training allows you to improve:

• Musculo-articular function (tone, strength, short endurance, flexibility, mobility)
• Cardio-vascular efficiency
• Proprioception
• Balance
• Posture

In addition to the numerous benefits on a physical level, its use also provides great results on the level of psychological and motivational. Gym Ball routines make workouts more interesting and fun, resulting in a more stimulating work environment.

For these reasons, it also helps to consolidate the routine, increase the compliance to motor activity, improved self-esteem and mood, all without affecting the effectiveness of the training in any way.

Fitness and more

The use of the Gym Ball is not only restricted to the world of sports and fitness, but can also be extended to holistic and physiotherapeutic activities.

In holistic activities, it offers a surface that can be modified and managed according to the user. This makes it excellent for general toning exercises, but also as an aid for stretching and gentle gymnastics exercises. The advantage is that it allows the body to reach certain positions slowly and gradually, and to be able to maintain them without problems and fatigue.

In physiotherapy, the Gym Ball creates, as already mentioned, a destabilisation that forces our body to modulate movements by activating the deep muscles, the stabilising muscles. Whether it is an exercise to strengthen the paravertebral, abdominal, or lower limb muscles, the Ball will allow the exercise to be performed by activating all the proprioceptive systems of our body so as to modulate its action.

All these characteristics give this equipment great importance in the practice of functional training, i.e. global training where movements are not sectorialised, isolating the muscles responsible for them, but motor skills are trained as a whole. Everyday life requires global movements, and even more so the actions of an athlete require global capabilities. For this reason, functional training equipment is designed to stimulate the neuromuscular-skeletal-articular system, the fulcrum of movement, and has in joint mobility and complex movement culture the prerequisite for its full and correct use. Functional training is indispensable if one wishes to improve the efficiency and health of the human body.

Gym Ball as a seat

In addition to improving muscle tone and avoiding incorrect postures, when used as a seat (at home or at work) the Gym Ball allows simple but extremely useful exercises, even during short coffee breaks. This is a possible routine to combat back pain and activate the core muscles:

• Cat & cow sitting
• Diaphragmatic breathing with hands on knees
• Stretching the ischiocrinals
• Alternating lifts of one foot at a time
• Supine crunches on ball

By performing each exercise for 60 seconds, in 5 minutes you will achieve core strengthening and improved spinal hydration and blood circulation.