Strength Ball Training

Develop sport-specific strength, power, and flexibility with strength ball training. Used by elite athletes in all major sports, Swiss ball and medicine ball exercises develop balance and stability while stimulating muscle growth for fitness and performance.

Written by strength and conditioning experts to the pros, Strength Ball Training presents 69 exercises—among them flexibility, joint stabilization, and strength exercises—that target all of the major muscle groups. More than 140 photos show the precise steps in performing each exercise.

If you’re looking for the most effective way to enhance traditional training methods, get results with Strength Ball Training.

Lorne Goldenberg has worked with professional athletes as a strength and conditioning coach with four National Hockey League (NHL) teams, Team Canada’s hockey team, and football players in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He lectures internationally on stability ball exercises and program integration for such groups as the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Society of Weight Training Injury Specialists, provincial associations, and professional teams. He has written for the NSCA Journal of Strength and Conditioning, Ironman, Physical, Men’s Journal, and the Journal of Hockey Conditioning and Player Development, which he also owns.

Goldenberg is the president and director of conditioning at Strength Tek Fitness & Wellness Consultants, a group of more than 100 employees in four Canadian cities, and at the Athletic Conditioning Center. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario, with his wife, Julie, and their children, Isaak and Danielle. In his free time he enjoys traveling to the beach with family and collecting Batman comic books and paraphernalia.

Peter Twist has coached in the NHL for 9 years and is currently the strength and conditioning coach for the Vancouver Canucks as well as President of the Hockey Conditioning Coaches Association. An exercise physiologist and sport scientist, Twist is coeditor of the Journal of Hockey Conditioning and Player Development, author of Complete Hockey Conditioning, co-author of The Physiology of Ice Hockey and an author in High Performance Sports Conditioning.

Twist has published over 100 papers and is a frequent guest lecturer at international conferences, seminars, coaching clinics and university courses on topics such as coaching, quickness and agility, core power and sport conditioning. Twist’s revolutionary training concepts have been well received by thousands of coaches and trainers throughout the world. In recognition of his contribution to the field of strength and conditioning, Twist was the 1998 recipient of the National Strength and Conditioning Association's President's Award.Twist has coached over 700 professional athletes, including Hakeem Olajuwon of the Toronto Raptors, Pavel Bure of the Florida Panthers and Mark Messier of the New York Rangers. Each summer over 500 elite athletes from high school, college and professional attend Twist’s camps.

Twist is an NSCA-certified strength and conditioning specialist and a former NSCA provincial director for British Columbia. Twist lives in Vancouver, Canada in the north shore mountains with his wife Julie. Together with their daughters Zoe and Mackenzie and dogs, Rico and Loosy, they enjoy mountain hiking, descent running, snowshoeing, black diamond tree skiing, and, of course, hot tubbing.