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What types of exercises can I do do on the stability ball?

La bola de la estabilidad: el núcleo último ejercicio

Aunque pensamos que la estabilidad de la bola como una forma de ejercicio moderno, sus orígenes se remontan a 1963. Ese año, un fabricante de juguetes de Italia decidió hacer uso de los juguetes de vinilo, en contraste con el caucho. Debido a su mayor longevidad, rápidamente ganó popularidad. Finalmente, las bolas se utilizan en toda Europa en ámbitos como la terapia de rehabilitación para los clientes ortopédicos y de víctimas de accidentes cerebrovasculares. En 1966, el Dr. Elspeth Kong experimentó con el uso de las pelotas para desarrollar un programa de esquí para niños discapacitados.

Joanne Posner Mayer, un terapeuta físico estadounidense que estaba entusiasmado con esta idea, se fue a Suiza para estudiar con el Dr. Kong en Suiza. A su regreso a los estados, que escribió el libro definitivo sobre el entrenamiento de la estabilidad de la pelota. En 1990, fundó Ball dinámica internacional en Colorado. Lindsay Zappola, un terapeuta físico, instructor de Pilates, comenzó a trabajar para ella. Lindsay incorporado las bolas en su trabajo con el equipo de esquí EE.UU.. Ball Dynamics, Resist-a-Ball y el Instituto Chek Pablo fueron las tres organizaciones que influyeron en el uso de las bolas en un entorno físico.

El entusiasmo acerca de las bolas aumenta cuando un artículo publicado en la edición de junio de 2000 de Physical Therapy citó un experimento realizado en la Universidad de Waterloo que los electrodos utilizados para probar la efectividad de varios ejercicios de abdominales. Los resultados de este experimento, impresionó a la industria del fitness. Cuando el rizo de UPS se llevaron a cabo sobre superficies irregulares, como la bola o tablero que se tambalea, las contracciones musculares tanto de los oblicuos y el recto abdominal casi se duplicó. El rotacional de UPS a cabo en la pelota con los pies en el suelo, se cuadruplicó la actividad oblicuo externo. Esta información convenció a los autores del estudio que superficies inestables crear la necesidad de mayor estabilización de la columna vertebral, que es una función de los oblicuos.

A continuación se presentan las recomendaciones estándar para el tamaño del balón:

Pelota de un diámetro USUARIO ALTURA


  • 30 cm. (bola de 12 pulgadas) Niño o no la sesión de ejercicio

  • 42 cm. (bola de 17 pulgadas) de menores de 5 pies

  • 55 cm. (bola de 21 pulgadas) 5 pies y 5 pies y 7 pulgadas

  • 65 cm. (bola de 25 pulgadas) 5 pies 8 pulgadas a 6 pies 3 pulgadas

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