Yoga Ball Chair

Home and work are not often synonymous with the concept of exercise.  Without the convenience of a home gym, you are most likely going to have to go to the gym to work out.  There is a way to get a workout in without going to the gym; while you watch TV, play on your computer, play video games or just enjoying the company of others.  You could even get a workout while sitting at your desk at work all day long.  This is all possible with the use of a yoga ball chair!

These chairs are a great alternative to the traditional desk chair and give you a great work out.  This is most simply accomplished by purchasing an exercise ball and sitting on it instead of using your ordinary desk chair.  If you desire more mobility while you work at your desk and need really need the wheels of traditional chairs, there are yoga ball chairs that provide that. These chairs combine the benefit of core strengthening of an exercise ball and the maneuverability of the desk chair.

Primarily, the exercise ball will improve your core strength and increase your balance.  Your core strength is increased because as you sit on the ball, it requires you to keep yourself sitting up with good posture.  Core strength and stability comes from the strengthening of your abdominal muscles from balancing on the ball.  With stronger abdominal muscles you will have less back pain, tighter abs, and a better looking figure!  These benefits can all be obtained while you are sitting at your work desk all day long.

Another way to increase your workout effectiveness is to gently bounce on the ball.  This will certainly give you a good workout in your legs (calves and thighs).  Beware, by doing this, you will definitely feel it in the morning!  The yoga ball can give you a great workout all day long and you hardly have to do a thing!

When considering your options for desk chairs you will have to look at your options based on your needs.  You may find that a yoga ball chair could be a solution for your desk chair needs.  Yoga ball chairs come in a variety of styles and are great for numerous reasons.

Using a yoga ball chair gives you the opportunity to get fit while sitting at your desk.  This is possible because it enables you to strengthen your core muscles and improve your balance simultaneously.  The yoga ball chair provides excellent ergonomic support.  Using a yoga chair has been know to alleviate back pain.

Sitting on a yoga ball gives you the chance to balance all day long in your chair.  With the yoga chair, you are able to experience typical mobility as you would with any other desk chair.  Using the yoga chair, you are able to continually work on your posture throughout your workday.

There is no denying the ergonomic benefits of a yoga ball chair.  The prices for ergonomic desk chairs range from $200 to $1000 a piece.    With the consideration of such a steep price, you may be willing to accept that back pain and no core stability will continue to be a part of your daily life.  With a yoga ball chair, you can expect to pay around $50 to $75 dollars each.  If that still seems like to much to pay, you can easily purchase a traditional yoga ball.

Using a yoga ball will provide all of the same great physical benefits of a yoga chair but for a price of $15 to $30 each.  This alternative will also provide you an opportunity to use it for a variety of things.    You can use the yoga ball for exercising including wall sits, leg lifts and crunches.  Many laboring pregnant women use these balls to help them too.  By choosing a traditional yoga ball as a chair, you may lose some of the mobility that you would get from the actual yoga ball chair.

Being up and active is a great way to be able to lose weight, maintain a healthy weight and generally increase your health overall.  The problem is, if you sit at a desk or a computer all day, you won’t be able to get up and be active.  While you can’t really change the fact that you are sitting all day (unless you change jobs which isn’t always an option) you can instead change what you are sitting on, in order to at least get some sort of a workout when you are sitting all day.  This is where a yoga ball chair can become helpful.

Yoga balance balls are a piece of equipment used to intensify workouts, and add another dimension to your exercises in order to increase the strength of your core muscles.  Many different exercises can be done, with or without weights.  Yoga chair balls incorporate these balance balls in chair form, allowing you to get the same core strength building benefits.

There are two different types of yoga ball chairs, one with wheels and one without.  If you use a chair at work that has wheels, especially if you are needing to roll around your office to get various things from different parts of your desk(s), then you will definitely want to look into yoga ball chairs with wheels on the bottom.  They give you the added mobility, while still giving you the benefits of having the yoga ball on the top side.

The oher type of yoga ball chair isn’t a specific chair, it’s just a yoga ball that you use as a chair.  This helps to keep the cost down by over 50% to 75% less than an actual chair with wheels.  But, the downside of just using a yoga balance ball is that it is harder to move around.  If you’re only sitting at your desk and not moving around too much, this may be the best option for you.

Here are some of the benefits of using a yoga balance ball or a yoga ball chair at your desk at work and at home:

• Increases your endurance and stability the more and more you use the balance ball.
• It will help you to correct your posture since you’ll need better posture in order to balance properly.
• You’ll be active throughout the day, helping your metabolism to continue going all day, burning more calories for you.
• Keeps your blood steadily pumping throughout your body.
• Increasing the overall balance of your body,
• and it can keep you alert throughout the day without the needed caffeine or energy drinks.

Definitely consider changing your current desk chair at home and work with a yoga ball chair that can provide many health benefits and still function as a great chair.