Exercise Ball: A large plastic ball that is an excellent tool for doing challenging exercises (with or without weights) that require varying forms of strength and control.

 

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Exercise Ball: A large plastic ball that is an excellent tool for doing challenging exercises (with or without weights) that require varying forms of strength and control.

Swiss Ball: An inflatable rubber ball usually two to three feet in diameter (60-90cm) used for support during exercises.  They are also referred to as exercise balls or physio balls.

Isometric Exercise: Muscular contraction where muscle maintains a constant length and joints do not move. These exercises are usually performed against a wall or other immovable object.

Isotonic Exercise: Muscular action in which there is a change in length of muscle and weight, keeping tension constant. Lifting free weights is a classic isotonic exercise.

Junk Ball: A deliberate yet poor quality stroke producing a slower and harder-to-predict return that is introduced deliberately to upset the flow of the opposition.

Jump Ball: A jump ball starts every game and occurs when a referee tosses the ball into the air between two players from opposite teams. During games a jump ball is called when two players from opposit . . . View Full Definition

Isolation Exercise: Weight lifting exercise that stimulate just a single muscle group. Good for defining a muscle.

House Ball: A ball provided by the center to its customers. Usually, but not always, they are of less quality than modern high tech equipment, usually polyester or hard urethane, not resin. Sometimes us . . . View Full Definition

Held Ball: When two opposing players both possess the basketball but neither one can gain sole possession. In the NBA, the ball is blown dead and a jump ball restarts play. College teams use the altern . . . View Full Definition

Highballs: Any liquor served with ice, soda, plain water, ginger-ale or other carbonated beverages.