Features:

• Special Book/DVD Package

Exercises start with the core, where most movements are initiated, and then move out to the periphery, combining strength and balance in all the major muscle groups and the supporting muscles. And the enclosed companion DVD shows you how to perform the most complex and advanced exercises.

Strength Ball Training also includes a sample 16-week program with an excellent array of strength, flexibility, and balance challenges that may also be customized to design your own strength ball program.

Strength ball training 5 out of 5

This book is a great resource, I used it to help teach one of my classes.

This books is basically good. There are many exercises at different levels and I feel an improvement in strength after using it. That said, the pictures could be better. It is not always clear the movement from the pictures and it takes careful reading.

I'm a certified personal trainer and this book was the basis of my most recent CEC (continuing ed.course).

As someone who utilizes functional type training as an important part of my personal fitness routine as well as in designing programs for clients, I thoroughly enjoyed what this book had to offer!

It is extremely well written with a wide variety of exercises, precise instructions, excellent high quality photographs (showing both starting and ending positions) and ways to modify the exercises (to make them easier or more challenging).

The most recent edition (2nd edition) also comes with an excellent dvd which shows a large selection of the exercises from the book.

As with all the Human Kinetics products I have used, the quality of the production is flawless and the book, even though a paperback, is very sturdy.

I can see that this book will be a reference that I will go to over and over again for great ideas to use both for myself and my clients and I highly recommend it!

For a number of years I have been doing a challenging program involving fairly heavy weights, stretching, and aerobic exercise. I was in good shape but not making progress, even when I increased the weight load. Lots of work on ab machines helped but did not completely shape up my core.

Last summer a trainer introduced me to a few exercises using stability balls. A few weeks later I found this book on Amazon. The first thing that impressed me was the quality, the amount of care that has gone into every aspect of the book and accompanying dvd. The introduction explains the approach and cites recent research. The instructions and photo accompanying each exercise are clear and helpful and the beautifully produced DVD demonstrates proper form for many, though not all, of the exercises.

I tried the sixteen-week program and saw dramatic changes not only in my core but also in my upper arms and legs. I'm now following the same pattern using some of the exercises from the program and some new ones, changing the selection every four weeks. Each exercise has advice about progressions so the possibilities are really endless. Some strength training programs are illustrated with photos of people who resemble the Michelin Man. The people in this book look like regular people in very good shape. That's how I'd like to look. Thank you Lorne Goldenberg and Peter Twist.

I've been working from this book several months now, and the deeper I dig into it, the more impressed I am with its range of exercises, the intelligence with which the exercises were selected, and the clarity of the instructions. And I am a picky editor when it comes to clarity! This book is excellent. Highly recommended.