| | |  | Softball Scrapbooking Items | Home » » » GoFit 65cm Professional Stability Ball | | | | | | | Description: | | GoFit's Professional Stability Ball is a safe, durable ball with burst resistance to 2000-lbs! This ball is perfect for weight training on the ball as well as users looking for extra performance for health club settings & other heavy-use applications. The kit includes a Core Performance DVD training session by Brook Benton .Also included is a two-way hand pump, an exercise booklet & ball plugs. | | | Features: | |
• 65 centimeter ball is for users from 5 feet, 6 inches to 6 feet tall
• Healthclub-quality stability ball
• Core Performance Training DVD included
• DVD includes multi-level workouts, nutrition information, and more
• Features super-thick walls constructed to perform with maximum durability and designed for commercial fitness us
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 12.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 3.8 pounds | | Package Length:
| 11.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 7.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 3.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 40 reviews |
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29 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 Perfect for my needsFeb 15, 2010
By David Dubbert
"David Dubbert"
I have been sitting in the exact same chair at work for almost five years, and recently, my body had started to complain about it. I had the idea of sitting on an exercise ball for a large part of the day, and shopped around a little before getting this one. After three weeks of sitting on it almost 10 hours a day, I couldn't be happier. Physically, I feel much better, and the ball itself seems to be holding up extremely well. I am about 5'6", and this ball is the perfect size for me to sit on. It holds its air well, and I haven't had any issues regarding a rubbery smell (which I hear can happen with these things). I definitely recommend this.
24 of 25 found the following review helpful:
Stability BallDec 10, 2009
By Great Outdoors
"very picky"
I took a look at quite a few stability balls before buying this one. I wanted a ball that could handle weightlifting excercises and the use of heavier dumbbells while still feeling secure under my body. This unit fits the bill very well. It is very good quality. I had no problem pumping it up with the supplied pump. It has held the air very well since I pumped it up. The included DVD is a nice added touch for those who like to have pictured step by step instructions. There is no lasting rubber smell that I can detect. I am very pleased with this purchase. I had also followed up with GOFIT customer support prior to my purchase to get some additional information and to see how they respond, and it was a good experience. Thumbs up on this product.
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Durable Muscle Strengthening Chair--What more do you want?Oct 14, 2010
By Xen8
I am writing this review for those who are interested in using this ball as a chair.
REASON FOR PURCHASE
Since I sit for extended periods of time (e.g. 3 -4 hours at a time), I needed a chair that would provide excellent back support and force me to sit up straight. Sitting in folding chairs has resulted in aches to my lower back and pain to my posterior.
This ball fit that criteria to a "T".
PERFORMANCE
The ball is extremely durable, having thick walls. The ball is not slippery and retains a firm grip on a surface with a rug. I periodically bounce up and down on the ball and it has retained its shape for over a week without losing air.
RESULTS
After the past 1.5 weeks, I literally feel stronger. The first few days I felt quite sore. This can be attributed to using "core" muscles that I never strain. Now, my back feels great. As an runner, I even feel my performance has improved.
PROS
strengthens back
soft cushion does not pain behind
fun to bounce up and down
cost next to nothing when compared to a "high-end" chair that claims miracles
easily portable
CONS
your boss might not allow you to sit on it at work
if you have no balance, you may fall over (probably a rare occurrence)
ball is red NOT purple, as shown in picture
MISC
Height: 5 ft 9
Weight: Slim
Ownership: ~2 weeks
22 of 24 found the following review helpful:
Heavy man, sturdy ball.Nov 07, 2007
By Coderpitt
"Pitt"
I've had this for about a week. I'm over 240 lbs and have been on this ball for over 30 minutes each day. It's held up even with heavy bouncing. I've had shoudler surgery, so this really helps with some exercises that normally would be impossible. It's a good ball, with minor odor that goes away in a couple of days. I haven't watched the dvd, but I'll get to that this weekend. Right now I'm mainly doing therapy with it.
Update: 11-19-10. The ball is still up and running. I've been using it now 2-3 times per week for 30 minutes plus. The odor finally went away. I gave it a 4 out of 5 because of the inital odor and that you need special pliers to remove the plug to refill air or deflate it. I think the plug will be the part that eventualy fails. My ball came in the purple color that was the image.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
A great choice but the purple ball shown is not the one being soldOct 23, 2010
By Baron Von Cool
IMPORTANT: It has been pointed out to me by two other reviewers that the purple product pictured here is NOT the one being sold! The purple ball pictured is a GoFit 65 cm Premium; if you order the model being sold on this page, you'll get a GoFit 65 cm Professional (with an increased burst-resistance of 2,500 lbs. but only available in a lame girly-red color men don't like). The Premium (and more manly purple) ball is slightly lower cost and has a burst resistance of 1,000 lbs.; it is the one I own and what I based my original review on. Usually, manufacturers color-code their balls by size. If you buy a ball (regardless of brand) that is not the right color, you need to check to make sure it really is the right size (a blank measuring tape should be included in the box, but you should double-check it with your own numbered tape measure just to be sure). Sometimes these companies, who all outsource their product manufacturing to China, unknowingly get a bad batch where the balls are the wrong size/wrong color but are sold as the right size, and sometimes they are the right color but the wrong size. I went through three other brands of balls that had these problems (detailed below) before getting lucky with the GoFit. Hopefully, this never happens to you, especially if you are ordering online.
The GoFit 65cm Premium (purple) core stability ball is one of the best on the market. I had bad luck trying balls by three other companies: Altus (smelled horrible like a toxic waste dump, was the wrong size [55 cm] ball instead, foot pump broke after a few minutes), Valeo and Everlast (both wrong 55 cm size, pumps didn't work or broke before full inflation). So I was stoked when the GoFit actually inflated to the right size! GoFit is a very sturdy ball, tough enough for big guys who want to lift weights on it, plus it doesn't have that toxic chemical smell some other balls do. My only complaints, and the reasons I'm not giving it a five-star rating, are the included foot pump is pretty crappy (no surprise) and the exercise DVD, while providing a good, tough, easy-to-understand workout (by a hot lady with a southern accent), skips over doing the opposite side of all alternating side exercises so you have to stop and pause the disk repeatedly in order to complete the workout. This sucks because I would much rather be able to just do it straight through. I suppose that becomes less of an issue if you memorize the workout, but I fail to see how the extra 10 minutes or so showing the alternate side exercises would have hurt the company. One other gripe: one of the exercises requires you to have two stability balls, but there is no way I'm going to buy two of these things just to do one exercise so I used dumbbells instead to get around this. All in all, however, the GoFit ball is an excellent choice and a product that stands head and shoulders above the competition, at least in my experience.
For those of you interested in an even tougher, dumbbell-heavy workout using one of these balls, I highly recommend getting the Men's Health: 15 Minute Workout. Note that this workout teaches you to cross-train your muscles with different weight dumbbells at the same time (so, for example, one 10 lb. and a 20 lb., or a 5 lb. and a 10 lb., whatever is comfortable for you). Just thought I'd mention this fact before you order it that for those of you starting out who may only have one matching set of dumbbells.
You also might want to pick up a cheap workout mat or exercise ball base because the ball will often roll around (and possibly slip out from under you) if you just use it on the carpet; that could be dangerous for some users but is a problem all these balls share. One cheap, but less than perfect option, that I've found is to angle some of my heavier dumbbells on the floor so the ball won't roll around as much (at least not backward).
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