We'd never strong-arm you, but there are so many benefits to adding a medicine ball to your workout. (Getty Images) I'll admit it: For years, I avoided adding a medicine ball to my workouts. Frankly, ...

You don't need to have an entire arsenal of equipment to your name to get a good workout in. In fact, one solid piece of equipment (and some creativity), will suffice. The medicine ball, also commonly ...

If you’ve ever seen a fellow gym goer tossing a medicine ball around, you’ve probably witnessed the level of fun this piece of equipment can bring to your strength and conditioning workout. And if you ...

There are so many effective ways to work your core at the gym and at the home. You could grab a kettlebell and do a full-body routine with sneaky abs engagement, do bodyweight abs moves like plank ...

Medicine balls are small, weighted exercise equipment great for strengthening your abs and core. Though you can use just one weight, using multiple sizes can make the workouts more versatile. It's ...

The exercises you choose to perform during a workout can be a very personal thing, so much so that over time, it becomes difficult to deviate from your routine. Granted, if you’re working out at all, ...

Strength training is beneficial for the body. It can help you build muscle and, by doing so, also help you burn more calories and shed fat. (Note: if losing weight is indeed your goal, other factors ...

Adding medicine balls to a training program opens myriad exercise options that cannot be easily performed with any other source of resistance. When leveraged correctly, medicine balls add elements of ...

A medicine ball is a great way to get you firing up your core. If you haven’t heard of a medicine ball, it’s just a weighted ball that is perfect for strength training—like core exercises. So having a ...

Doing ab exercises with just your body weight can be challenging in itself. But when you bring extra pounds into the equation, it's a whole new kind of burn. As celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson told ...

When I think back to my childhood, I'm amazed at how simple life seemed to be. In my community, many people worked in farming or in factories nearby. They clocked their 40 hours per week, and enjoyed ...