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 enlarge | Authors: Lorne Goldenberg, Peter Twist
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $20.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 12332
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2 Pap/DVD
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 285
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0736066977
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.71
EAN: 9780736066976
ASIN: 0736066977
Publication Date: December 12, 2006
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Condition: Brand new, in perfect condition, never opened.
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 Thorough and complete September 4, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was impressed with the set up of the content. It's well written with detailed explanations for each exercise. I use it a lot in my own personal training. Those days when I don't feel like hitting the gym, I just stay home and practice some of the advance exercises. I can still get a good workout off it. Great book.
An Intermediate to Advanced Book for Physioballs July 1, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great addition to any personal trainer and group fitness instructor's library. Some might complain that it takes a partner to do some of the exercises, but from a training stand point you WANT your clients to NEED you--just think for a second, if your clients didn't have to do partner exercises, then why would they hire you? Besides, even if you go to they gym regularly and you know your way around the weightroom, I would suggest getting yourself a workout buddy to help with motivation and program adherence.
For the beginner, I would not recommend this book because most of the exercises are pretty challenging. I thought I knew every possible exercise on the physioball after going to Core Workshops in New York, but if you get this book I promise you will spend your money wisely.
If you don't have a gym, then spend the money to get a medicine ball and a physioball, an investment of about $100, and you're well ahead of the game when it comes to fitness. It's also a great book for any of you functional training and sports performance junkies out there, you could definately use some of these with your athletes.
The DVD is an excellent addition to an otherwise packed-out book of stabilization knowledge. The book doesn't tell you what poundage (or Kg) because the author assumes that you are smart enough to know your limits about what you can chuck around.
New Exercises for a Stability Ball April 9, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of the most comprehensive guides to training with a strength ball. Fitness enthusiasts will enjoy the workouts included in this book.
 Great book, but how about a new edition? February 27, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I start all of reviews with 5 stars and then take away stars with something that I don't like.
I think this book is a great book. It's a very comprehensive book showing you all of the different exercises available with a stability ball and even some exercises that I didn't know could be performed with a stability ball. Very well put together.
I do have two complaints though. 1) You have to have a partner for several of the exercises listed. I'm not taking away a star for that though, because other people did have it in their reviews and somehow I just skimmed over that part. 2) There's not really a good workout regiment in the book. They give you all of these exercises and then don't really culminate them well. Yes, there are a few "workouts" in the back of the book, but they only seem enough to whet your appetite. I am horrible about coming up with my own workout plan. I guess I'm just not creative enough. Seems like something they could add in a revised edition.
All in all a good book though.
"Strength Ball Training" by Goldenberg, Twist most comprehensive on subject January 28, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I'm not a PhD on the subject, but as a lifelong "fitness enthusiast" (read: two points shy of OCD) I've seen dozens of books on diet and exercise and have managed, through judicious culling of available material, to distill a program out of it all that has eased considerably my transition from extended adolescence into midlife crisis.
Lately haven given up running and 80% of my weightlifting activity in favor of dance class, hiking/hill sprinting and bodyweight circuits, the stability ball is the single most important piece of gear I use. The core conditioning I've learned in the course of various rehab cycles relies on it, and having revamped my program based on the ball and related movements I'm always looking for new information about it.
This book is the most comprehensive out of half a dozen or so I've seen on the subject. It contains sections on each body part and a full range of medicine ball movements for explosive conditioning. If I would have known 30 years ago what I know now, I'd have been ten times better off using the programs in this book than the folklore-laden, body builder-based training I was using.
If you want to build the type of conditioning that will not only make you a better athlete but give you survivability throughout your life, this book would be an excellent place to start.
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