Medicine Ball workouts are great to inject some extra difficulty in your training schedule. The extra weight and tension on your muscles can improve your muscle tone, strength and resistance. The key, as with all exercises, is to get the right balance, challenge your body without overdoing it.

This short article will look at a variety of ways in which we can use it in our exercises and some words of caution you might want to keep in mind.

Remember the ball is just a heavy object designed to provide an extra challenge to your exercise. You should first be confident with the exercise, and execute it with great form. Once you are proficient you can start looking for ways of making it more difficult.

Any kind of aerobic exercise, like running or walking increases blood flow to your muscles and increases the energy you burn, which in turn creates ATP, which is what you use to make your muscles contract.

All this benefits your heart, which is important because it can help avoid heart attacks.

After you have finished your main session you should also wind it down with a gentle cooling down stage, that will help you avoid injuries.

Some words of caution though, do not overdo your exercises, especially at the beginning. Medicine ball workouts can improve your exercises and make them more challenging but they also can increase the tension and pressure on your bones and muscles. Remember you cannot workout when you are injured, so it is better to be consistent and regular than doing too much and not being able to exercise for weeks or even months.