The FITBALL is a tool exerciser made of PVC, with a diameter ranging from 50 to 70 ” first appeared on the American scene in the 1990s.

In Italian would be translated as the “ball that fits” (from the verb to FIT = fit) and indeed because of its unique shape allows the spine to adapt completely to the surface ensuring a low incidence of stress or trauma.  The small size and portability have made a tool of great use, allowing a fitness scale.

Used by athletes from beginners and older people, its use is primarily the development of proprioception and balance. His being unstable work allows improvement in posture; is in fact crucial to find positive postural adaptations in order to improve stability on it. Trivially, sitting on a fitball there realizes how now is obligated to maintain the physiological curve of the spine, those curves strongly stressed and misaligned due to incorrect posture (paraformismi) or antalgic posture to which we encounter every day on the job.

The beauty of using this tool is also in our body adaptation, after only a few sessions you may notice significant improvements in terms of neuromotor.
In the elderly, because the central nervous system slowly loses its efficiency, this tool, always making it a correct use guarantees a coordinative capacity improvement even within everyday life.
In the case of newcomers who often come from sedentary life dynamics, this tool ensures the acquisition of basic requirements of balance, stability and coordination, in a relatively short time.
Finally we find athletes who have implemented it in their workouts microcycles core development and perceptual abilities, Kinetics is not hard to find on social media videos of elite athletes who engage in using the fitball to improve performance in their sport.

Finally you will find here the video of myself and the coach Giancarlo at any stage of your training on your balance and core:

“If you want to go one step further, you must lose your balance for a moment”