Fitness Friday: Benefits of training with Dynamax ball

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Our bodies are made to push, pull, bend, reach, and turn, yet traditional exercises generally target only one muscle movement at a time. Functional Training on the other hand mimics natural body positions and movement speeds that occur in daily life and lead to more efficient and safer performance of real world activities. You’ll be able to do things more easily like, pick up your children, unload groceries from your car, or reach and take down boxes from a shelf. Here today to explain the benefits of functional training and demonstrate some DYNAMAX med-ball exercises is Wink News Fitness Expert Mike Drumm.

Mike’s advice is think about some of the activities that almost every human does multiple times a day? You sit down, you stand up, you pick stuff up, you walk, and you climb stairs. What exercises do you think would transfer best to these activities? Sometimes we need max strength, like when you’re trying to move something heavy from the garage, or other times you need muscular endurance like for when you’re carrying your groceries up 2 flights of stairs to your condo.  Having been in the fitness industry for more than 10 years I am convinced that the addition of functional movements into your current exercise routine is the most important change you could make for better overall fitness. It’s also more dynamic and mentally stimulating which helps fight the monotony that can derail a workout. To get a challenging, effective and fun full-body workout as well as prepare the body for everyday, real-world activities give the DYNAMAX med-ball a try.

DYNAMAX Ball

It’s like many of the objects you lift every day, and repeated use provides much the same benefit: functional, real world strength. The DYNAMAX ball also allows you to transition from one exercise to the next without putting it down, challenging your muscles (and burning calories) in significantly less time. The two most functional exercises you can do are the squat and dead lift. If you can squat more you will surely be able to sit down and stand up more efficiently. If you increase your dead lift, picking things up off the floor will become easier, and the grip strength gained will allow you to make 1 trips to the trunk for groceries instead of 2. That sounds pretty functional to me.

The DYNAMAX Workout

·         DYNAMAX ball “Squat”

·         DYNAMAX ball “Overhead Press”   *Legs and back are the key players

·         DYNAMAX ball “Squat-Press” or “Front Raise”

·         DYNAMAX ball “Front Squat”

·         DYNAMAX ball “Diagonal Reach”  *Arms reach up, opposite leg slightly lifts to the side.

·         DYNAMAX ball “Rotational Twist” or “Kneeling Tosses”

·         DYNAMAX ball “SLAMS”

Where To Start?

The easy way to begin to add functional movements to your training is to simply write down what you do every day. What are your physical challenges? If you’re a secretary you may find that your legs and back ache at the end of the day from picking files from the floor. These would be your first areas to target. Don’t think of fitness as something that is done only in a gym.

DYNAMAX Benefits

• versatile total body training tool
• Total Body benefits, work the core, arms, lower back, and lower body
• ball does not bounce, extremely durable

Besides the obvious advantages from a physiologic, practical, and enjoyment standpoint, movement-based training is also adaptable. Nearly every exercise may be combined with another movement into a seamless transition of exercises without a break.