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The 23 Best Medicine Ball Exercises To Tone Your Entire Body, From A Trainer
Medicine Ball Burpee
Why it rocks:
This move targets your glutes, quads, core, and upper body, says Gina Newton, CPT, a personal trainer and holistic body coach. "It also elevates your heart rate for a killer cardio workout."
How to:
Stand with feet hip-width, holding a medicine ball.
Lower the medicine ball to the floor and press into it with both hands as you jump (or step) legs back into a high plank.
From here, quickly jump feet towards the ball, into a squat position.
Drive through heels to stand back up, squeezing glutes and returning medicine ball to starting position.
That's 1 rep.
Kneeling Medicine Ball Slam
Why it rocks:
Kneeling medicine ball slams are an awesome exercise that develop rotational core strength. That skill is important for everyday functional movements, says Stewart. They also work your glutes, quads, hamstrings, calves, lats, core, chest, and shoulders, so you really get a bang for your buck.
How to:
Stand in a lunge position with left leg front, holding a medicine ball near right hip.
Circle ball up and overhead to forceful
Around The World Med Ball Slams are a great dynamic core exercise that can add some nice variety to any workout in place of more &#;traditional&#; (but sometimes boring) core exercises.
In this guide, I&#;m going to teach you how to properly do Around The World Med Ball Slams, explain the benefits of this movement and provide a few alternatives in case you need them.
How To Do Around The World Med Ball Slams
Equipment Needed
Muscles Worked
Abdominals
Serratus Anterior
Latissimus Dorsi
Teres Major
Deltoids
Step-by-Step Instructions
Grab a medicine ball and stand tall with feet roughly shoulder-width apart.
Rotate to the side and bring the ball up and behind the head.
As the ball begins to be lifted over the head, aggressively rotate the body forward and slam the ball to the ground in front of the feet.
Let the ball slam into the ground, catch it off the bounce and repeat going to the opposite direction.
Continue to alternate back and forth until all reps are completed.
Coaching Points
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Trainers Reveal 10 Medicine Ball Moves You Should Be Doing
When you're feeling bored, blue or just plain blah, exercise is the best medicine—which explains how this -old fitness accessory got its name. Medicine balls have been around since the days of ancient Greece, when the physician Hippocrates is said to have recommended homemade versions to patients, and gladiators reportedly used them for fitness training. Today, you can find them in practically every gym and sports equipment store, and for good reason.
Medicine balls are weighted to add resistance to any exercise, from crunches to squats to shoulder presses, making them a great stand-in for dumbbells. Most of them are around 13 or 14 inches in diameter (about the size of a standard volleyball) and are available in a wide range of weights, from one pound up to 30 pounds. They're usually made from rubber or nylon, and some have handles for easy gripping.
With traditional dumbbells or barbells, you have just one option: to lift and lower the weight. Medicine balls have the added option of being thrown, which can add a new level of explosiveness and versatility to your workouts. They're highly effective in strengthening t
Medicine Ball Throw Types
Medicine balls provide huge versatility and can address a wide range of possible training goals. Resultantly, there are an almost unlimited number of MB exercises which can be used. While not an exhaustive list, we attempt to outline the primary exercise or throw types in subsequent pages.
Any MB throw can be performed in any plane of movement. For example, rotational throws don’t receive a category of their own, as “rotational” refers to the plane of movement (transverse plane) of the throw. In theory, rotational throws could take the form of any number of the “types” outlined below such as concentric only rotational throws, rotational partner catch-throws or counter-movement rotational throws.
While medicine balls are often used to augment jumps and plyometrics with external load, such exercises aren’t included here. In such instances, the medicine ball does not offer particularly unique benefits compared to other forms of resistance such as weighted vests or other implements. Instead, we primarily focus on exercise types which specifically utilize MBs to achieve unique loading effects and outcomes.
As one begins to explore the wide range of diffe