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Chest Exercises with Stability Ball
Strengthening the chest muscles will help you push things easily and effortlessly. The muscles in your chest help stabilize your shoulder joint, which reduces your vulnerability shoulder joint injuries. Working your chest muscles also has an aesthetic factor (body contouring).
A stability or exercise ball is a ball constructed of soft elastic and filled with air until firm.Most stability balls range from a diameter of approximately 35 to 85 centimeters (14 to 34 inches). A primary benefit of exercising with an exercise ball as opposed to exercising directly on a hard flat surface is that the body has to respond to the instability of the ball in order to remain balanced. This in turn forces the body to engage far more stabilizing muscles (i.e. core muscles) and those muscles become stronger over time. The stability ball is most often used during core (abdominal, lower back) strength exercises.
Alternating Stability Ball Chest Press
The alternating stability ball chest press is an intermediate upper body exercise. This exercise requires core strength and stability in order to maintain proper form on the stability ball.Chest & Triceps Exercise
Equipment: Dumbbells, Stability BallPopularity
Bosu Push Up with Knee Tuck
The Bosu Push-up with the stability ball knee tuck is a very challenging advanced exercise. This exercise targets the chest, arms and abs and also improves core stability.Popularity
Stability Ball Dumbbell Press
The dumbbell chest press is an intermediate chest exercise. The exercise uses the stability ball to increase the level of difficulty and the dumbbells to allow the arms to work independantly from one another. Both of these elements help to enage and challenge the core.
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Stability Ball Fly
The stability ball fly is an excellent chest exercise that isolates the pectoral muscles.Chest & Shoulders Exercise
Equipment: Stability Ball, Dumbbells
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