What are those large exercise balls for?

Question

What kind of exercise do they help with? Can they take the place of a chair?

Answer 1

They are for yoga poses and sometimes strength training.

Answer 2

Basically every exercise you can do in the gym you can do the same on an gym ball. They're brilliant.

Answer 3

They are good for a lot of different exercises... It helps to tone muscles while sitting on it because you have to balance yourself - use while lifting weights, crunches, push ups, etc. Here's a site that has animated examples of what kind you can do on it.

http://tudefitness.com/

Answer 4

Yes, they can take the place of a chair. The extra work you do in maintaining balance helps work stabilizer muscles & enhance your workout.

Great for adding variety to you abdominal workout.

Check this link for some exercises:

http://orgs.jmu.edu/strength/JMU_Summer_...

Answer 5

strengthening abs,  you can do crunches on them,  it is also  great for stretching the back.  I use mine for that.  You can work out legs aswell.  There is an excercise dvd for it.