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6 Medicine Ball Exercise You Should Try, According to a Personal Trainer (Yahoo!)

Posted: Feb 19, 2025 in In the News

This article originally appeared on Yahoo on February 19, 2025.

I'll admit it: For years, I avoided adding a medicine ball to my workouts. Frankly, I was intimidated by the large weighted ball, imagining it was meant solely for hard-core exercisers with 18-inch biceps. Turns out, the weighted wonder has plenty to offer people at all fitness levels. It's an excellent tool for enhancing strength, balance and coordination and achieving a full-body workout (and it's not as scary as it looks).

"If your goal is to improve muscular fitness, then strength training equipment can be essential," says ACE-certified personal trainer Chris Gagliardi. He shared six fresh, effective medicine ball exercise recommendations. I tried all of these workouts, and yes, some are much more challenging than others (glaring at you, medicine ball push-ups), but there are modifications you can take to ease in. Holding a sphere in your hands will feel different from gripping a dumbbell or kettlebell handle, but as with any new fitness tool, you'll get the hang of it. You may even find it more comfortable.

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