What Can You Do With A Stability Ball?
If you are a fitness instructor or coach, you can probably think up many things to do with a stability ball. You can use them for sit-ups, push-ups, and squats. You can balance on the ball or use it as inner-thigh resistance in Pilates. There are a myriad of things you can do with these sturdy fitness toys, but the e-book Fitness Games can teach you to see a stability ball in a completely new light.
Fitness Games is based on the concept that fitness boot camps would be better if they were more fun. Imagine teaching or attending a class that was just as physically challenging as a typical 5 A.M. boot camp class but was a whole lot more fun. Fun is an essential human motivator. If something makes us feel bored and humdrum, whether that’s a job, a book, or an exercise class, we are likely to quit. However, if we can be stimulated mentally, work in a competitive, supportive environment with others, or just laugh, we are much more likely to stick with something.
If you could spice up your boot camp class with more high-energy fun, don’t you think you would have better luck getting and keeping students? Alternatively, if you’re a bootcamp participant, don’t you think you would be more likely to get out of bed an hour early for a class that was fun as well as challenging?
The Games
What about that stability ball? With over thirty-five different activities, Fitness Games is packed with fresh ways to use your gear. We don’t have room to list them all here, but here are a few ideas you will find in this great e-book.
For instance, you can use a stability ball as a soccer ball; kicking it requires more strength and better balance than kicking a regular ball. You can also use a stability ball as a dodge ball; its weight and size mean that you will have to get the force of both arms behind it to throw it. The book also includes a variation of football that uses a stability ball.
Balls are not the only thing you will find in these games, though. Many games also incorporate traditional moves like lunges and squats, and almost every game will keep the whole team moving all the time - even if that means they have to do jumping jacks on the sidelines. Some of the games even use yoga based exercises!
Flexibility might be the best part of the activities in Fitness Games. Many of the games can be tweaked for groups of different sizes and levels of ability. You can play for a longer or shorter time period, or you can split the group into four teams instead of two. You already know a bunch of ways to use a stability ball, but let Fitness Games help you become more creative with your equipment and create a better boot camp class in the process.