Bender Ball For A Great Ab Workout

This is a small inflatable ball about the size of a bowling ball. You place it on the floor behind your lower back and then do sit-ups. It is a funny phenomenon because they are easier to do but the intensity is far more than doing regular sit-ups on the floor. It comes with a DVD and it is pretty intense ab workout but I just do crunches with it. It is not expensive ($9.95) but by the time you pay shipping and handling it is about 20 bucks which is pretty expensive for a little rubber ball but still most of us blow $20 dollars without thinking about it, so all in all it is worth it. I do not know if the claims they make on their site are legit but I did find some studies that showed that doing abdominal exercises with a ball are much more effective than without.

I tried to find this on another site besides the benderball official site and I did find it on Amazon but it comes with a bunch of DVD’s and is about $54.00. The reason I was trying to find another way to order it was because when you order it from the official site they sign you up for an auto-delivery program and send you a new DVD every 30 days and personally I think the ball and the DVD it comes with are sufficient. The official site is  www.benderball.com  I would suggest calling the number to order and making it clear that you do not want or agree to any auto-delivery program and that you just want the ball and whatever it initially comes with. 

I  just saw this at Target today (5-15-2010), I would check there first.