It’s hard to believe the summer is already over and we are looking straight into the face of winter once again. I find winter the most challenging of seasons to stay in shape. The days are shorter and colder which means less time to be outside, walking or jogging or biking, which I do try and do a few times each week, at least when the weather is good. Places I would’ve walked to on a nice autumn day in September of October I will drive to on a cold day in November.
What I can look forward to as far as my exercising regimen is concerned is just as much time with my Bender Ball as I had in summer and spring. Since I can exercise with my Bender Ball anytime and anyplace, I don’t need to run to the gym in bad weather, and I can even take my Bender Ball with me to work if I have a few free minutes to squeeze in some crunches.
We are at the tale end of summer, and I am happy to report me and my Bender Ball are doing great. I’ve been loosing pounds, and my tummy is starting to resemble an ironing board rather than a bowling ball.
My wife and I went on a cruise last week, and the food was spectacular. I didnt feel bad about taking seconds or having another helping of dessert, because I knew I could work it off with a few minutes with my Bender Ball.
One day, on the cruise, I decided to go out on the deck by the pool and work out there. I started my crunches and someone came up to me and asked me about the Bender Ball. How often do I use it? Where did I get it? How much did it cost? Did I ever do any other type of exercise? A lot of questions that I was happy to answer. Then he said he had noticed how much I enjoy eating, and that he had wondered how a guy that eats like me could look so good? Well, I can tell you, that made me feel like a million bucks.
After that day I always did my crunches on the deck. I noticed lots of people watching me, and a few even came up to speak with me. And I got quite a few compliments. My wife was beaming, too. I think she is really proud of me. I feel as good, maybe better, than I did when I was in school. My Bender Ball has really given me my life back.
By the time I finally got my Bender Ball I was sadly the heaviest I had ever been. I was pretty upset about myself and how I looked and felt. But my wife was very encouraging, and we started to use it together. This was only a few months ago, but I can tell you already that exercising with my Bender Ball has been an almost liberating experience. I know that I only need about 10 minutes each day, which isnt that hard to set aside for something so important. But even more, its fun to exercise with my Bender Ball. It doenst hurt my back when I use it, and in just the past few months I’ve already lost a significant amount of weight. I am really thankful to Nancy for pushing me over the edge, and I think we’ll invite her over again soon. I just want to first get a tiny bit thinner.
After my wife and I watched the Bender Ball video on Youtube we became intriqued, but as I mentioned, I was scarred from my fitness club membership and weightlifting experience. I couldnt bring myself to jump into this new way of exercising. So, sadly, I let a lot of time go by before I ordered my Bender Ball. But as I mentioned before, my wife had become friendly with the cousin who first told us about the Bender Ball. My wife is a very smart lady, and she invited Nancy, her new friend, over for lunch one Sunday afternoon. And she clevely brought along her Bender Ball. It was so light and easy to take along. Nancy then showed me the way to use it, and I was really astounded! Even I could easily use it. When I did the crunches Nancy explained how there is much less back strain when doing abdominal crunches with a Bender Ball. And there are lots of ways to use it. And best of all, in only about 10 minutes each day you can start to see good results. I was excited and ready to order a Bender Ball of my own.
Have I mentioned how much I love my Bender Ball? I know I’m in the middle of a story about my short-lived career as a weight lifter. Well, that wasnt going so well, weightlifting was even effecting my moods and relationship with my wife. She told me she had a friend whose cousin had seen a really interesting video on youtube about a new way to exercise. It was called the Bender Ball method. My wife didnt really know much about it, so we called the friend and got the cousin’s phone number. My wife and the cousin, whose name is Nancy, really hit it off on the phone. Nancy gave my wife the link to the video, and my wife and I watched it. We were both really impressed, but we werent yet sure what to do. My expericnece at the fitness club had left me feeling pretty bad about myself, and I didnt know if I could commit to exercising at all. More to come…
Let me finish up this discussion of my short weightlifting career before Bender Ball became my exercise of choice.
After my fist two visits to the health club, I got into a kind of routine for about two weeks. I drove over to the health club, either on my way to work or on my home. I spent about a half hour sweating and straining and day dreaming about being anyplace else but there.
Finally my wife said she didn’t like how grumpy I was getting, and I was always tired. I told her I just wasn’t enjoying the lifting weights.
She said it was OK because she had just heard about a great new way to strengthen the abdominal muscles (abs) without having to leave home. That turned out to be the beginning of our Bender Ball exercise experience.
In my last post I was talking about my short involvement with weightlifting before I found Bender Ball.
My wife had purchased a membership for me in the local fitness club. The first time I went was not a good experience. (See my last post about this.)
A few days later I went again, but after work, instead of in the morning before work. I didnt want that same trainer to see me again. This time I thought I would do some sit-ups to strengthen my abs, so I started crunching. But I think I crunched a little to much, and I heard my back go “crunch.” To make a long story short, let me just say that its a good think I came by car instead of jogging, like I had the first time.
Have you ever done weight lifting? Well I have. Before I discovered Bender Ball my wife got me a membership in the health club about 2 miles from my house. For about two weeks I jogged over there at about 7am, arrived there in about 1/2 hour panting, and then went downstairs to the weight room.
The first visit was a bit of a disaster. I layed down on the machine that you push up with your arms, closed my eyes for a second, and the next thing I knew the trainer was laughing in my face and yelling, “You come here to sleep, my man? Get up off you beeehind and start pressing!” Woe was that embarrassing.
I’m the last person in the world to try new things. Call me Mr. Skeptical, yep that’s me. Not a creature of change. That was until I met Bender Ball.
I have been hooked for over three years, I can’t believe it myself, I have never given any exercise program a chance for that long. Not weight lifting nor jogging and certainly not swimming. I still visit the pool, go for a run and lift weights but not on a regular schedule.And, when I did do these exercises, I would do them for a few months and then stop, wait a few months or years as is the case in biking and start again.
Bender Ball has been a whole different experience for me. It has become a part of my life that I can actually say that I will never quit, ever. There is really no secret here either why I can say that I won’t get burned out from this and quit like I did with all the other exercises. Though I wold see results with the others, like I would notice a weight loss or build up my chest or arms doing curls with the weights - it just isn’t the same with Bender Ball.
I been successful because I have been consistent and I have able to be consistent because I spend less time working out. It is that simple. It’s definitely about the time it takes me to get through the Bender Ball method. I am done before I know it- within a few minutes it is over and I have gone through the whole Bender fitness routine.
Since I was a kid I dreamed of having flat muscular abs, and I tried everything from sit-ups to leg raises, and nothing got me anywhere near the results I got with bender ball.
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It’s hard to believe the summer is already over and we are looking straight into the face of winter once again. I find winter the most challenging of seasons to stay in shape. The days are shorter and colder which means less time to be outside, walking or jogging or biking, which I do try and do a few times each week, at least when the weather is good. Places I would’ve walked to on a nice autumn day in September of October I will drive to on a cold day in November.
In my last post I was talking about my short involvement with weightlifting before I found Bender Ball.