Insider's Guide to Stability Balls

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5 Best Stability Ball DVDs

10 Minute Solution Fitness Ball Workouts

Trainer Kimberly Spreen offers five speedy workouts, each with a different focus, including lower-body toners, arm and shoulder sculpters, and total-body routines. (collagevideo.com, $14.95)

TLT: Susan Harris Finding Your Core

This midriff-focused workout burns more calories than traditional strength training by incorporating props like a stability ball and light hand weights. (collagevideo.com, $19.95)

Pilates with Resist-A-Ball

Traditional Pilates moves get a stability-ball twist with this innovative video, which uses the ball in 34 different mat exercises. (resistaball.com, $24.95)

Yoga with Resist-A-Ball

The stability ball becomes a helpful prop for moving deeper into yoga poses, but even seasoned practitioners will enjoy some fresh twists on more standard moves. (resistaball.com, $24.95)

Originally published in FITNESS magazine, February 2007.

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dbbdzzydb wrote:

my? ifi'm doing resistance weights for biceps and triceps is it possible to gain musle weight?????dbbdzzydb@aol.com

3/12/2010 07:48:40 AM Report Abuse

wschultz208 wrote:

don't you have any exercises for people with back and neck injuries......I can't do hardly any of these

3/10/2010 12:55:04 PM Report Abuse

kolivecrona wrote:

@ tweetylc13 - i think you are meant to rest your non moving legs ankle on top of your moving legs knee(lower thigh), that way you are balancing with one leg and it makes you have to engage your core more. Hope that made sense.

3/10/2010 12:48:05 PM Report Abuse

tweetylc13 wrote:

How can you do it with just one leg for the challenge? Where do you place non-moving leg?

3/10/2010 11:47:15 AM Report Abuse