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Posts Tagged ‘swiss-ball’


Active vs Passive Resistance (or, why keep your balance on a swiss ball?)

There are two ways to encourage muscle growth. The way that most people think of growing their muscles involves actively contracting the muscle to accomplish movement of some kind. Picking something up off the ground, pushing something up into the air, pulling something towards you. Exercises like pushups and pullups require you to try and [...]

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How To: Swiss Ball Bridge

How to perform a swiss ball bridge exercise with an image showing the move. Click on the picture to see the full sized image.

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How To: Swiss Ball Dumbbell Bench Press

How to perform a dumbbell bench press on a swiss ball with an animated image showing the move. Click on the picture to see the full sized animation.

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Bridge Exercise on a swiss ball, Part II

Last week, I saw somebody doing a bridge exercise on a swiss ball, which I thought was a fairly novel idea. It was new to me, anyway. I tried it during my workout in place of my last set of crunches, and I liked it. I mentioned that I wanted to try it with my [...]

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Bridge exercise on a swiss ball

This morning I was at the gym working out (my “getting back into lifting shape” workout), and I saw somebody doing a bridge, which is a great workout exercise for your abs but which I do not have currently written into my workout. However, he was doing it on a swiss ball, which I had [...]

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Core Fitness with a Swiss Ball

The Health and Fitness Blog has a great animated gif of a core fitness routine using a swiss ball. I have worked this into my workout regimens at times and it is a nice break from just doing situps and crunches.

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