Juggling for Exercise |
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Sometimes it’s tough to fit exercise in when you are juggling all that life is throwing at you. When the juggling gets too much, I get to juggling. I’m not an expert juggler by any means, but I can usually keep a steady pace for 5-10 minutes without a problem. Rather than juggle bean bags or lightweight balls, I needed something with a little more heft to them to get a good substitute workout in.
Where did you find the juggling balls? I went out and bought the heaviest bocce balls I could find. These are perfect for juggling and I got them at just a fraction of what true exercise juggling balls cost. Before that, I made my own by cutting open some tennis balls and stuffed them with pennies. I used some hockey tape to seal them back up.
It’s a pretty good exercise when you are in a pinch and can’t get to the gym. I like to take a little break and do some push-ups in between sets. It’s probably not a perfect exercise for your everyday routine as it might not be the best for the elbows.
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March 1st, 2007 at 8:31 am
Actually, I don’t think that it is bad for your elbows at all unless you are completely wild. I used to juggle professionally (and by professionally, I mean that when I was younger people would pay me to do parties, parades, and fairs) and made quite a bit of my own equipment.
In terms of heavy balls, I got some bean bags that were quite large and weighed a few pounds each that worked quite well. I also made heavy tennis balls, but I used a syringe to inject water w/some waterbed chemicals into them. They looked like normal tennis balls, because the holes would reseal themselves within 3 or 4 minutes after I was done. By filling them only about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way I was able to get some nifty tricks going where the ball would wobble in the air if I spun it to get the water to slosh around inside the ball while it was in the air.
I don’t juggle very often, but now and again I will do so at the gym. They have some small medicine balls that are between 1 and 6 pounds that really give you a good workout.
Do you juggle clubs at all? It’s pretty easy to get the weight up using hammers and things like that, and you tend to get a better grip and wrist workout with clubs than with balls.