Stability Ball Workouts BOSU Workout

A BOSU Workout and Stability Ball Workouts were once a Very Foreign to Me

A quick background review will help explain.

Bosu is Japanese for something Right?

I started to exercise primarily lifting weights, bodybuilder style in college to gain muscle.  I was a hardcore lifter training twice a day sometimes trying to get stronger and gain muscle.  I tried every supplement in GNC which my roommate worked at.

I would prepare all my meals on Sunday night and eat only my chicken, brown rice with vegetables and 3 Myoplex a day while I was studying exercise science at Oregon State University.

I took part in an internship with the Oregon State Strength & Conditioning department the season after they crucified Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl.  I worked with the men and women’s basketball, base/softball and football team during my last year studying exercise science.

I received my Bachelors Degree in Exercise in 2002 and Never Saw an Exercise Ball in the Process

I was thinking about this today when I did a couple of webpages about stability ball workouts and a BOSU ball workout.  I did not list any “cookie cutter” workouts in those pages simply because I don’t believe in them.  I eventually plan to create custom workout routines for my visitors who want help.

I remembered how skeptical I was when I first started seeing people use the balls.  We used them primarily to mess around with when I was first started working at a gym in Corvallis, OR.

I just assumed that all stability ball exercises with the exception of crunches would be worthless and all BOSU ball exercises were equivalent to skateboarding, tight rope walking or some other circus act.

I would guess today many “old school” people still have the same attitude towards exercise balls.  I am not included in that group.  I have enjoyed progressing my knowledge and experience with exercise balls.

I have used Exercise Balls extensively with my Clients for the Past 4 or so Years

They like it and I think exercises on exercise balls are some of the best supplementary exercises out there.

I say supplementary because I have mentioned before, some trainers or people who exercise take it too far.

Ball exercises are great but in no way do they replace the best exercises to base any resistance exercise program which are of course, squats, dead lifts, bench presses, pull-ups, lat pulls, military presses, etc.

I made this video to sort of poke fun at trainers and people who get a little too creative and excessive on core exercises.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq7COFzZR5A]

Personal Training is not about who can make their client’s puke during a workout, becomes the most sore after a workout, or do the craziest exercises during the trainin session.

Personal training is about being able to motivate a client and guide them through a program which must include exercises which have been scientifically validated over the years as well as having a little fun along the way.

Stability ball exercises and BOSU ball exercises are a good way to supplement the workouts.  Compare them to a multi-vitamin while the bench press, squats and pull-ups are like the chicken and rice.