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[camwyn]

Anybody here at all familiar with using a medicine ball as part of an abdominal workout? I'm seeing stuff about using one in a pass-from-hand-to-hand exercise for the obliques, and it looks like it might be worthwhile because I hate just doing crunches, but I'd like to know if it's at all effective. Also how heavy the thing ought to be, because the ones at Modell's are expensive. If we're talking a weight in the eight pound vicinity I'm just going to buy a gallon of water and use that. I'm told a basketball filled with sand weighs in at about ten pounds, so if I can get an old one from someone who'd otherwise throw theirs out I'll just go with that instead.

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[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

Gallon jug should work great. 8lb balls tend to be a little heavy for starting that with. Weight plus inertia plus a trainer who wanted it all done fast? Duuude the pain.

[camwyn]

Ok. A gallon of water is 8.33 pounds. I shall start smaller than that, then. That's the lovely thing about plastic jugs, you can pour out the weight.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

Yup. And sometimes, they have handles. Handles are a lovely option.