{"id":3091,"date":"2018-06-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/office-chair-vs-exercise-ball\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:37:56","slug":"office-chair-vs-exercise-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/personal-fitness-training-blog\/office-chair-vs-exercise-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Replace your Office Chair with an Exercise Ball?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are looking to perform some core exercises<\/strong> while at work, you could replace your regular office chair with an exercise ball<\/strong>. This has become quite the trend but how effective is it actually?<\/p>\n

Benefits of an exercise ball in the office<\/h2>\n

Sitting on a chair requires pretty much no muscle<\/strong> activity and it can actually hurt for a number of reasons:<\/p>\n

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  • When sitting on chairs, people tend to slouch or hunch and display bad posture.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Sitting in a chair actually puts your abs<\/strong> into slack mode which decreases your core strength<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Using an exercise ball<\/strong> will counteract\u00a0poor posture<\/strong> as well as the slacking of your abs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Fitness professionals’ words of advice<\/h2>\n

    Don’t think that just because you’ve hoofed out your office chair in favour of an exercise ball<\/strong> that your posture<\/strong> will be automatically corrected! Larry G Merritt\u00a0and Celynne M Merritt – in the Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association<\/em><\/a> –\u00a0speculate that the reason for this\u00a0is a lack of knowledge (on the part of people swopping out their chairs for exercise balls.)<\/p>\n

    Sitting properly on a ball will require muscular contractions of the core<\/strong> and your hip<\/strong> and leg muscles<\/strong> will be used to maintain balance which will also contribute to muscle<\/strong> tone. Watch this video to discover how you should be sitting on an exercise ball:<\/p>\n