On the Ball

On the Ball

The stability ball, which originated in Europe, was a tool that was used in spinal rehabilitation. Now, the ball has infiltrated the health and fitness industry as a way to offer support to the joints and challenge exercise. The ball gets you off the floor, helps you to transition from one exercise to the next, allows you to have improved comfort in many common trunk and spine exercises. and adds new challenges to the neuro-muscular system. These videos will demonstrate how the ball can increase overall range of motion in many common trunk extension, flexion, and rotation exercises, while making it exercise fun. You will feel stronger, more stable, and have less pain with regular practice.

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On the Ball
  • Live Event | Bodyweight Ball Workout (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This flowing routine uses a stability ball as a resistance platform for muscle growth. The ball can act as an amazing tool to help support the joints, add resistance, and cause us to have to react to the moving surface. It is considered to be an unstable surface, but it can also make exercise ...

  • Live Event | Yoga Fit Ball (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This dynamic Yoga fitness workout uses the stability ball to keep muscles working to improved responsiveness and contractile strength. The dynamic nature of the ball challenges the core in every pose with increased range of motion and support for the joints. This practice will improve core stab...

  • Video 414 | Post-Op Knee Recovery III (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This is a follow-up video to "Post-Op Knee Recovery II #412. At this point, you are likely done with physical therapy and working to return to a higher level of function. Remember that regaining your range of motion and strength after total knee replacement or hip surgery is critical to regaini...

  • Live Event | Core Ball: Lower Body (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This 60 minute workout will strengthen and tone thigh, hip, gluteal, calf, and foot muscles using a variety of positions. Using the stability ball as if it were a weight bench, we will practice stabilizng with the ball using trunk and spine muscles as we strengthen the lower body.

    The flowing...

  • Live Event | Core Ball: Upper Body (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This 60 minute workout will strengthen and tone bicep, tricep, chest, back, and shoulder muscles using a variety of positions. Using the stability ball as if it were a weight bench, we will practice stabilizng with the ball using trunk and spine muscles as we strengthen the upper body.

    The fl...

  • Live Event | Knee Strengthening Workout (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    The knee joint, called a "hinge" joint, bends and straightens but can become stressed or injured with muscle weakness and compensation from nearby joints. In this workout, you will learn about the knee joint and practice some effective exercises to help keep your knee more stable.

    We will use...

  • Video 394 | Back Therapy Ball (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This 15 minute routine will teach you some of the most important exercises to do for the lower back and surrounding joints. The stability ball is often used in rehab and physical therapy because it gets you off the floor and allows you to safely move through a greater resisted range of motion. ...

  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Balance Ball

    This moderately-paced routine combines Yoga and Pilates moves using the stability ball. With the help of the ball, there is an increased responsibility for muscles to contract on demand. The ball allows for the trunk and spine to be involved in every movement. Enjoy this gently flow as you mov...

  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Upper Body and Deep Core

    This core training class is designed to strengthen and tone the chest, back, biceps and triceps muscles using a variety of shoulder positions. Using the stability ball as if it were a weight bench, many muscles will be working to keep training positions static against the moving weights, trainin...

  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Yoga Mobility Workout

    Experience Yoga using isometric resistance challenges with the stability ball to strengthen spinal muscles and improve range of motion. Beginning in sitting, we will start with a short meditation and breathing exercise. We will journey through the body from head to toe using the ball and a Ther...

  • Video 366 | Back in Shape (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Stiffness in the lower back is often caused by weakness of the surrounding muscles. Bending backwards is not a motion that many of us train during the day, and the stability ball is the best tool to use for training this region.

    The ball will get you off the floor in many traditional trunk ex...

  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Stability Ball Leg Workout

    This workout features the stability ball as a tool to add instability, resistance, and variety to several lower body exercises. The muscles of the trunk and spine are used in nearly every position as you work to control the moving ball. In many of the exercises, dumbbells are added to apply mor...

  • Video 074 | Work Your Core and a Whole Lot More (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    The stability ball is one of the greatest tools for in-home fitness programs. In this 30 minute workout, Lauren will take you through a strengthening routine that requires muscular strength and responsiveness from the trunk and spine to control the moving ball. This video will challenge the hi...

  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Pilates Ball

    Working with the stability ball can help develop overall control and strength of the core, increase balance and stability, improve spinal mobility, and enhance postural awareness. In this classic Pilates routine, see how the stability ball, originally used for spinal rehab, can enhance many of t...

  • Video 347 | Isometric Core Ball Boost II (15 minute routine) with Lauren Eirk

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you strengthen core muscles and help give you improved spinal stability using a series of flexion-based isometric exercises. These are the muscles that bend the spine. This includes your "six-pack"!

    There is no better tool ...

  • Video 073 | Stability Ball Workout (45 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This creative full body workout using a stability ball, which provides the perfect surface to accommodate the curves of the spine. When using the ball, experience greater overall resisted range of motion than is achieved during traditional practices on the floor. The flowing nature of the ball ...

  • Video 340 | Isometric Core Ball Boost (15 minute routine) with Lauren Eirk

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you strengthen core muscles and help give you improved spinal stability using a series of rotation-based isometric exercises.

    There is no better tool for spinal exercises than the stability ball! Using the ball as a prop ...

  • Video 339 | Upper Body Construct (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This workout begins with a warm-up using the ball to address range of motion. From there, experience unique isolation work for biceps, triceps, chest, shoulders, back, and abdominals. You will notice a variety of positions using the ball that will require a bit of control and core stabilization...

  • Live Event | Basically Abs, Back and Ball (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This workout features the stability ball to train the abdominal and back areas of the body. The ball will gets you off the floor, helps you to transition from one exercise to the next, and allows you to have improved comfort in many common trunk and spine exercises. and adds new challenges to the...

  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Stronger Arms and Back (60 Minutes)

    The ball is the best prop to use when strength training. It allows you to position the body in unique ways to encourage joint support and greater range of motion to get more from your exercise routine. This class will move at a comfortable pace using modifications and cues throughout.

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  • Live with Lauren Eirk | Bodyweight Ball

    The ball can act as an amazing tool to help support the joints, add resistance, and cause us to have to react to the moving surface. It is considered to be an unstable surface, but it can also make exercise feel much more comfortable. Enjoy this workout in a moving fashion as you transition fr...

  • Video 313 | Ball Strong: Hamstring and Glutes (45 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This workout features the stability ball as a tool to add instability, resistance, and variety to several lower body exercises. The muscles of the trunk and spine are used in nearly every position as you work to control the moving ball. Some of the best hip and glute exercises can be done with ...

  • Live Event | Bands and Balls (60 mins) with Lauren Eirk

    The Stability ball adds such a challenge to every position all on its own, but add the TheraBand to these exercises and you get an awesome strength workout that challenges the mind and body. This workout will strengthen your core, improve joint stability, build muscle, and help with overall neuro...

  • Video 280 | FIS Chest and Back (30 Minute workout) with Lauren Eirk

    Simply speaking, chest muscles are used to push objects away from us Back muscles pull objects towards us. Exercises around these muscle groups are opposite in nature, as one works concentrically and one eccentrically to either shorten against a load or allow for more length to control the join...