Hello again from the team at BDI!

In this issue of the Health bounce we will begin a series of short informative and inspirational articles written by fitness ball guru Colleen Craig. We hope they help you get all you can from your FitBALL!

We have also added several exciting new products to the online store recently and will be highlighting some of them in the next few issues as well.

Enjoy!

Sincerely,
Your friends at BDI.

By Colleen Craig, Certified Pilates Trainer.

This is an excerpt from Colleen's book Pilates on the Ball.

When I studied ballet I often focused on what I was not. A voice in my head could not be silenced: I began too late, I was not as flexible or as skinny as the other dancers, I mixed up the choreography, my jumps were without grace, my pirouettes too unwieldy. I loved the physical sensation of dancing— the sensual rush of flying through space— but I poisoned those longings with constantly comparing myself to others. This hostility caused a bottomless pit of longings, envies, and neediness. When I got the wonderful opportunity to study with a prestigious teacher or attend a special ballet school in the summer, anxiety and shame destroyed the pleasure of these experiences. Dance, which had started off as a friend, ended up as an enemy that had this power to make me happy or sad, self-loving or self-hating.

Stop right now and take an inventory of all the physical joys that your life now possesses. List them in your mind or on a piece of paper: your health. your mobility, the power of being able to walk, to see the beauty around you. If you have a long-term chronic condition or some other serious disease that has affected your nervous system, try to focus on what mobility you possess and what realistic goals can be set to nurture your strength, endurance, and coordination. Don't forget your physical accomplishments of the past. Your body will remember where you were before and may get you back there quicker than you might imagine possible. Ponder your personal well-being—how good it feels to be in your skin and not anybody else's. Don't resent your body for its years of being sedentary, or fight its tightness or restrictions. Don't despise its weaknesses, it's pains, bulges, and diseases.

Accept yourself as you are today!

by Amir Nevo

This challenging and entertaining video delivers a powerful way to stretch and strengthen your whole body using the FitBALL exercise ball. 65 minutes

This video differs from most stability ball videos as it shows a series of over 75 ball exercises that you can customize into a workout specific to your needs. By learning this video’s clearly-explained and demonstrated exercises, you will discover how to to strengthen the back, chest, arms, shoulders, legs, and abdominals with one inexpensive piece of equipment (the FitBALL) and, in the process, acquire the knowledge to create the exercise program that has the most impact for you or your patient/client.

Amir is a highly respected Kinesiologist and fitness expert, and author of the critically-acclaimed video, Crunches Won’t Cut It! His columns in newspapers and magazines, and his broadcasts on television and radio, inform and educate on everything from simple conditioning tips to the hottest new fitness trends! Run-time= 65 minutes

Features two resistance levels in one PowerWeb. It offers greater flexibility and value. Same size (14”) and materials as the original PowerWeb.

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