Medicine ball workouts?

[Ray9]

I am trying to find some great workouts with my 10lb medicine ball, I have no partner to throw with. Does anybody know any good exercises or websites showing good workouts with a medicine ball but with only one person?

[Ray9]

wow nobody knows?

[-iLift-]

Most people on this forum aren't too fond of medicine balls . . .

[Ray9]

ye but i pitch... for baseball and i have to start using a medicine ball.....supposed to make me throw faster

[crofty22]

find a training partner or a guy you know well at the gym ... most medcine ball exercises need one

[DsDhBxracer13]

I'm not sure about specific stuff that would help you with your pitching, but I use them a bit with a MMA training. Plyo pushups are great, sometimes we do circuits of a few different things. You can do medicine ball slams, swing the ball up in both hands over your head and bring it down throwing it at the floor as hard as possible. You can do just wall throws, throwing it as hard as you can at a well, either with one arm pitching style, or more of a press style with two hands. Burpess with them are great to and extra hard. Those are just a few off the top of my head that might help you a bit.

[stkylepr67]

http://www.performanceworkouts.com/e...s_full_3.shtml


Scroll down to medicine ball under equipment

[Ray9]

tyvm i would rep u all but i can't rep till 24 more hours

[Kiknskreem]

There are also a lot of throwing specific exercises, but you'll have to dig those up on your own. A 10 pound med ball is going to be waaaayyy to heavy to do those throws

[Peter_Dow]

Hi I was going to start a new topic but then I saw the above video and I thought it might be useful to show you this other video I saw.

So I already know what exercises I want to do and the medicine ball the guy in the above video has looked good and bouncy but would it last? Here's my concern.

I am posting here because I sent the following email to some fitness equipment websites here in Britain looking for some sales advice and I have got a deafening silence in reply. So I am wondering if the collective wisdom of this site can advise. Thanks. Here's the email.

Hi,

I am looking for a bouncing medicine ball. One that is hard-wearing and heavy-duty so that it can take a lot of bouncing off stone walls, concrete or stone-paved ground - that kind of thing.

The weight I am looking for would be around 5.5Kg or 12lbs. If having to choose between 5 or 6 Kg, I will go for 6Kg, particularly if the 6Kg is not too much more in price than the 5Kg. If the 5Kg is way cheaper I might consider that.

Now there seem to be quite a few different makes on the market XLR8, TKO and so on.

I was wondering what the best way to make a hard-wearing medicine ball is so I was looking on the internet for information.

Now I've really got concerns about the durability of rubberised hollow medicine balls because I saw a video on YouTube which shows someone from Si-Boards throwing such a ball up and it breaks in two on the ground. They were promoting their solid polyurethane bouncing medicine ball which they say doesn't break.

They do a 8.5 inch diameter 12lb ball which looks good to me. But that is a California company and I don't know if they deliver to Scotland for how much or if someone else in Britain can supply something similar over here?

Here is the video.
"Si-Boards Medicine Balls Exercises"


So which bouncing medicine ball is best and why? Who can provide the best ball at the best price including delivery to Scotland?

Peter Dow,
Aberdeen, Scotland