Bender Ball Method

When you are thinking about embarking on an exercise routine, you may find your options intimidating.  You see people sweating up a storm and dedicating a lot of time to exercise - and you don’t quite know where to begin with your program.

Many doctors and exercise specialists will recommend that you focus on something you love.  If you enjoy bowling, softball, swimming or walking, make this your exercise routine for now.  You don’t have to kill yourself at the gym in order to get a good workout!  You can allow yourself to do something you enjoy - and still receive the fringe benefit of helping your heart and your health.

Join a team sport.  This will allow you to be social while also getting in some exercise.  Create a walking group.  Purchase a few exercise videos such as Mitch Gaylord’s Melt It Off and see what you enjoy.  You can even rent videos for a few days at a time to get a feel for what you enjoy.  Buy a Bender Ball and enjoy some crunchless abs each day!

Recognizing that you are allowed to enjoy your physical activity can really put you in the right frame of mind to begin - and hopefully to maintain - your exercise routine.

One key to a good exercise routine is variety.  If you are feeling stuck or feeling bored, you are more likely to abandon your routine.  If, instead, you feel that every day will offer something new and interesting, you’ll be more likely to stick to your workout. To this end, it’s important to find the right combination.

Some people enjoy going to a gym for this reason. They can take a spinning class one day, a hip-hop class another day, and work out on the cardio machines a third day.  The gym enables you to mix up your routine, while still creating a consistent workout schedule.  Certainly, you can always incorporate some consistency into your routine by doing crunchless abs with the Bender Ball or by stretching in the same way each morning.

For others, the gym becomes a stale form of routine itself.  If this occurs, or you know without even going to the gym that it’s not for  you, then find a different way to achieve your exercise variety.  Maybe you enjoy running, walking, swimming or biking?  Perhaps you want to walk with a friend two days a week, go to a nearby pool two days a week and use an elliptical machine two days a week. Finding the right balance for yourself can make all the difference in the world!

The Bender Ball works better than other small balls for a number of reasons.  Some people think that they’ll just go to the store and buy any ball that’s on sale - but the Bender Ball isn’t just “any ball.”  With the give of the ball, you can inflate or deflate it as you desire to adjust the intensity of your workout.  If you deflate the ball a bit more, you’ll be able to extend your back further and add to the intensity.

The make of the ball also adds to its effectiveness for crunchless abs.  The exterior of the ball provides a slip resistant surface.  This guarantees that the ball will stay in place while you are exercising and you won’t have to constantly readjust it during your workout.  Some other balls are too slick and can easily slide out from under you.