0428-0446 Gym Ball

GYM BALL

The Gym Balls (also known as Fit ball – swiss ball – physio ball – balance ball) are spheres of synthetic material equipped with an inflating valve and available in 6 different sizes, from 45 to 85 cm in diameter, to satisfy every customer need . The Gym ball, fun and versatile, allows you to perform a series of exercises useful for improving 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 it is possible to create various work programs both for personalized training and for group courses, adapting to the various individual needs and objectives.

The main advantage of using this product is the active response of our body in contrast to the instability of the ball to remain in balance, thus engaging all the "deep" muscles, also called stabilizers. These muscles play a very important role both in daily life, as they improve posture and avoid the appearance of incorrect attitudes mainly due to work, and in improving sports performance. Precisely for these reasons, the Gym ball is one of the most used products in functional training.

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

Available models:

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

Maximum User Weight: 120Kg

To store them you can evaluate the Gym Ball code display 0459, or, for larger quantities, lo Storage Racks cod. 0449.

Benefits of using the Gym Ball

Training with Gym Ball allows you to improve:

• Muscle-joint functionality (tone, strength, short-term resistance, flexibility, mobility)
• Cardiovascular efficiency
• Proprioception
• Equilibrio
• Position

In addition to the numerous benefits on a physical level, its use allows you to obtain great results also on a physical level 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, to increase the compliance motor activity, improvement of self-esteem and mood, all without compromising the effectiveness of training in any way.

Fitness and more

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

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

In the field of physiotherapy, the Gym Ball creates, as already mentioned, a destabilization which forces our body to modulate the movements by activating the deep muscles, the stabilizing muscles. Whether it is an exercise to strengthen the paravertebral, abdominal or lower limb muscles, the Ball will allow the exercise to be carried out by activating all proprioceptive systems of our body in order to modulate its action.

All these features give this tool great importance in the practice offunctional workout, i.e. a global training where the movements are not sectorised, isolating the muscles that are responsible for them, but motor skills are trained as a whole. Everyday life requires global movements, and even more the action of an athlete requires global capabilities. For this reason, functional training tools are designed to stimulate the neuromuscular-skeletal-joint system, the fulcrum of movement, and have joint mobility and in the complex culture of movement the prerequisite for their full and correct use. Functional training is essential if you want to improve the efficiency and health of the human body.

Gym Ball as a seat

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

• Seated cat & cow
• Diaphragmatic breathing with hands on knees
• Hamstring stretch
• Alternate lifts of one foot at a time
• Supine crunch on the ball

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