10 Minute Solution: Fitness Ball Workouts
NO TIME TO EXERCISE? We have the solution for you! Instructor Kimberly Spreen has developed 5 distinctive, ultra-effective Fitness Ball workouts, each one specially designed to tighten and tone your body. And the real secret of the ball is that it works your midsection without you even knowing it. Just by maintaining balance on the ball, you constantly activate your core muscles?so all the workouts will help give you leaner, flatter abs. Voted Top Workout of 2006 by Natural Health Magazine, this DVD allows you to split these 10 minute sections into 5 separate workouts, or mix and match to hit your own unique problem areas ? or do all of them together! BUTT & THIGH TONE-UP: You?ll get incredible results from this segment ?“ the ball allows you to really target specific muscle groups so you can tone, tighten and shape your entire lower body. ARMS & SHOULDER SCULPTOR: This segment incorporates light hand weights and utilizes the fitness ball to help you achieve sexy, sleek, and toned shoulders and arms. FIRM, FLAT ABS: The fitness ball gets you up off the floor and helps you to isolate the deepest muscles of your entire abdominal area so you?ll get better results, faster. TOTAL BODY FAT BURNER: This surprisingly fun and unique segment is a whole different take on the fitness ball ? you?ll bounce, toss and roll the ball while you burn fat and calories! ULTRA STRETCH: You can achieve the deepest, most satisfying and effective stretches by using the fitness ball. You?ll want to do this segment again and again.
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10 Minute Solution: Fitness Ball Workouts Reviews
My favorite one is the Flexibility section since I was able to pick this one up the most quickly for some reason so I can use it more often than the others as of right now where I am in the practice with the ball, though I have also using the Core also and have been enjoying the ab work. I have a couple of 10 Minute Solutions and picked this one up since I have added a ball to my execise program. Overall it is a good selection and variety on one DVD that helps with flexibility and strength. This 10 Minute DVD follows the others in general format - some real nice targeted sections that can work in any exercise program and I have trying to use the ball 2-3 times a week.
Buy Lara Hudson's 10-Minute Solution of Pilates on the ball instead. Some of the segments call for waving the ball over your headsomething that is totally impossible in my basement. And the arm workout is downright boring. I own many of the 10-Minute Solution DVDs, and this is my least favorite.
The instructor was nice, kind of like being instructed by Laura Ingles on Little House on the Prairie. There are a lot of repeating moves in this video. And it kind of makes me not want to get another one. I have to say out of my 10 minute solution collection this one is my least favorite. I did like the arm and ab portions however. This was my first fitness ball routine.
It seems easy at first but boy is it deceiving. This video is one of the best I've tried. It works you out very hard in just the 10 minutes plus you can go on if you want to and do more. I love it and would recommend it to anyone needing a workout with limited time.
she counts 4, 3, 2 jump, however; she is pulsing down 4, 3, 2 , ONE and then jumping. not terribly difficult; there were a few harder segments - pulse and jumps, jacks with ball, but overall, not too tough to keep up with. it is true that you can not switch the weights during the routine, unless you want to miss some of the reps. for example, in the AB segment, after the 10 min. in other 10 min. she will say, now we'll add a shoulder press here, and then she won't add it till she's done 2 more bicep curls, while you've been ready to do the shoulder press already.
*i like the arm/shoulder routine very much. i like starting with a total of 64 crunches on the ball. * i also dislike that there is virtually NO cool down stretches at all. make sure you count on your own for FOUR pulses.
solution dvd's i use, there are a few cool down seconds, without taking away from the efficiency of the routines. even she confuses herself with it, and at one point, she pulses for only 3 and then jumps, and messes up on 2 reps. a nice surprise, since the first one i have - target toning for beginners, does not have closed captioned. *she has the lower body workouts which are effective, but not too difficult for someone who is already in shape. * at times, her cueing is not great. during a fast paced workout and I am very pleased with the closed captioned on the dvd. i do recommend this dvd and think it's a fun, effective way to change up your routine. i was not at beginner level when i introduced it into my weekly exercise routine (3 times a week power walking, 3 days a week, 10 minute solution dvd, which i vary), and the first couple of days afteward, my ribs hurt when i sneezed.
overall, i LUV the 10 minute solution series. it is the first arm routine i've seen in the 10 minute series where you are using weights for a total of 8 minutes straight, with no break. after the cardio routin, you also have a couple of stretches to very quickly bring your heart rate down. *AB routine excellent and very effective. it's become easier as i've gotten used to it, but was quite challenging initially; still makes me break a sweat, though. Of all the dvd's i have in the series (target toning for beginners, tone trouble zones & hot body boot camp - amy bento, and this one) i do the first four segments (don't have the extra time for the final stretch segment.). *cardio routine fast and fun, overall. her counting during the pulse and jump reps in the cardio segment is NOT good AT ALL.
one more point, i have a hearing loss and wear 2 hearing aids. during the AB section, i do have some trouble keeping the ball in place during the oblique crunches, it seems to slip out of place, when i lean sideways on it. just use whatever weights are right for u. you have to get used to that.
workout, she has u do a child's pose curl and that is it. she is a good instructor and fairly easy to follow. a few negatives:. and seems to be great at shaping your arms and shoulders very very nicely.
this is a very good dvd, i would say for an intermediate level. although i can hear the tv when it's on, it's tough for me to understand new words, esp.
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