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Fit & Well
Health
Maddy Biddulph

Improve stability, core strength and balance with a medicine ball and these six trainer-approved exercises

Woman holding medicine ball at head height.

Medicine balls are a firm favorite in the exercise class I teach, and newcomers often ask how else they can use them if they bought their own.

I think it’s a great addition to a home gym, even if you already own free weights, because you often have to hold the ball in a different position to, say, dumbbells, creating a new type of instability for your core to work against.

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