Pro-Sports

After planning to do more cardio workouts, I’ve discovered that there really isn’t much I can do from a home DVD except for the 3-in-1 Ball workout DVDs purely because I don’t have enough floor space.  All it takes is one grapevine and I’m already halfway into the wardrobe, unless I take super-mini steps which defeat the purpose of the exercise.  Even if I did have space, I think I would need to buy myself a pair of sneakers to workout in the house because my knees can’t take the pounding against the tiled floors.

So yesterday it was onto Level 2 of the Ball and Band workout…

It was only after starting the Level 2 workout that I realised I completely missed the warm-up segment from the Level 1 workout I did on Monday.  Oops. 

The Level 2 workout was broken up into three parts:

Warm-up: 12 minutes
Work-out: 26 minutes
Cool-down: 8 minutes

So in total, it was a 46 minute workout.  The work-out itself was structured similarly to the Level 1 workout - 5 parts consisting of cardio and toning exercises.  It was a little more vigorous than Level 1, but still well within my fitness levels.

I noticed that I’ve started aching again from the toning exercises so I’m assuming that this workout is challenging muscles that I wasn’t really working out as much when I did the yoga or pilates exercises.  Which is good news because that means I’m keeping my body on its toes. 

I don’t know if you’ve ever read about how the body adapts to the workouts you do on a regular basis.  Effectively what happens is that your body acclimatises to the workout so that after a while you find you no longer work as hard to achieve the same results.  For the best results working out, you need to change your exercise routine so your body doesn’t get a chance to adapt.  For instance, if you’re a runner, it helps to vary your routine and go for a swim to break up the running routine.

In the same way, my workout on the ball achieves the same thing.  All I’ve been doing in the first four weeks is yoga and pilates.  While yoga and pilates provide a terrific workout in themselves, I still think they lack a certain something that the ball exercises seem to compliment.  Perhaps it is because the ball exercises focus on certain groups of muscles while the pilates and yoga exercises are more general?

Although I have yet to try out the rest of the workouts from the 3-in-1 Ball set, I think I can safely conclude that this series is an excellent addition to the home workout DVD collection.

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