{"id":17667,"date":"2010-02-28T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=17667"},"modified":"2010-02-26T13:43:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T18:43:56","slug":"3-simple-medicine-ball-workouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/3-simple-medicine-ball-workouts\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Simple Medicine Ball Workouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogger Karla Walsh is a Health & Human Performance and Journalism student at Iowa State University. As a health journalist and blogger, Karla is passionate about fitness, nutrition and all things wellness-related. She is currently preparing to become a Certified Health Education Specialist and will graduate from college in May. You can read more about Karla on her Web site Healthful Bites<\/a><\/em> or follow her on Twitter<\/a><\/em>. Karla is also one of the two winners of DietsInReview.com’s FitBloggin’ <\/a>ticket giveaway<\/em>!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Besides a new workout outfit, pair of shoes or the latest club tunes, nothing perks up my exercise routine like a new tool to try out. Among my favorite dumbbell swaps? The medicine ball!<\/p>\n

Mixing up your usual strength routine can have huge muscle-sculpting benefits. Besides helping weight work seem new and fun, a medicine ball targets your core more than traditional weights since you utilize varying ranges and planes of motion.<\/p>\n

Here are three of my favorite exercises that you can try the next time you are at your workout facility or your well-stocked home gym!<\/p>\n

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Plus, how are you going to toss or bounce a hand weight? The options for exercises with a ball are nearly endless: throw back and forth at chest height with a partner or squat holding a ball and toss it above your head while jumping to show your creativity!<\/p>\n

Medicine balls can also be included in circuit programs and many athletes enjoy the functional motion available from a ball that mimics their sport movements.<\/p>\n

I enjoy adding medicine ball<\/a> strength drills to my workouts about once each week, utilizing an eight-pound ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest blogger Karla Walsh is a Health & Human Performance and Journalism student at Iowa State University. As a health journalist and blogger, Karla is passionate about fitness, nutrition and all things wellness-related. She is currently preparing to become a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2487,23,3093,3080],"class_list":["post-17667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-fitbloggin","tag-guest-blog","tag-karla-walsh","tag-medicine-ball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17667"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17669,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667\/revisions\/17669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}