Medicine Ball Training

In keeping with the exercise principle of overload (the body will eventually adapt to the workload that is placed on it), exercise variety will help increase one’s level of fitness.

Consider medicine ball training as an alternative. “Throwing the ball” is an enjoyable diversion from conventional weight-training, and the required level of exertion is not always immediately realized. Even when exercising alone, medicine balls can be utilized for conventional muscle movements, or dynamically thrown against a solid wall from various angles while standing, kneeling or sitting.

In the end, medicine ball training is simple and effective, a formula for success.

By Patrick Sarne, FACTS Fitness General Manager/Personal Trainer

Try 'Negative' Push Ups

Try this workout the next time you are at the gym. Go through your normal push ups on the up phase (eccentric) motion. On the down phase (concentric) try to lower yourself on a 5 second count. Go through 10-15 reps of these and you will feel the burn in your pectoral and deltoid muscle groups.

By Mike Kramer, GM of Steel Fitness, Bethlehem, PA