Exercise Ball Phenomenon
A few years ago I bought an exercise ball. One of those gigantic, brightly colored, plastic bouncy things that everyone was raving about at the time. It took fifteen minutes to pump the thing up and after spending so much time in preparation I had lost all interest in actually exercising with it. Truthfully, I've only used it a hand full of times since then, but last week I pulled the deflated plastic ball out of the closet and decided to give it another go.
I had a lot less trouble with it this time around, since I'm in better shape, I was able to balance myself much easier. I started using it on my resting days, in between running.
After only one week of doing crunches on the exercise ball I'm happy to say I've lost 1" off my waist and another 1/2" off my hips. All the proof I need to stick with the exercise ball from now on.
And if your keeping count, that's a total of 5" off my waist, since starting my new healthy lifestyle 6 months ago. Just shy of half a foot off my waist! <* beams with pride *>
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