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Blast those obliques! Medicine ball oblique twist with a press

by Gareth Hanson in Medicine ball exercises with No comments

This is a great abdominal and obliques medicine ball exercise, nicely demonstrated by Stephen and Sarah over at diet.com.

I’m hoping to start shooting some videos of my own soon. Until then, I hope you don’t mind me finding videos from other trainers.

If you have any questions about the medicine ball exercises, just drop me a comment and I’ll do my best to answer them for you.

Thanks for reading :-)

Medicine ball exercises – an introduction

by Gareth Hanson in Medicine ball exercises with No comments

Like the Swiss ball, the Medicine Ball can be all the equipment you need for a full body work out.

Medicine balls were first used for strength training 3000 years ago in Persia, where wrestlers filled animal bladders with sand. They were later used in ancient Greece where they were constructed from animal skins sewn together and filled with sand. The name ‘Medicine ball’ was first coined in the late 19th century, when the words ‘health’ and ‘medicine’ were synonymous. Continue reading →