Aldi Gyro Ball

T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S.

I invested in an Aldi Gyro Ball today. Obviously a budget version at £4.99 and, at first attempt, I was not totally overwhelmed but may stick it out for a bit. Has anyone much experience of these?
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T

Pink*Kitchen*Lady

Will pop down there to get DH one, thanks for the tip

T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S.

The Gyro Ball is supplied with a sheet of instructions but it's the only exercise apparatus which I have purchased is not provided with warm up and cool down exercises - perhaps there's none needed. On the other hand I suppose users need to perform some stretching exercises

jenniewb

Whats a Gyro ball? do you have a picture/link? want to help but can't as I don't know what it is!

T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S.

jenniewb wrote: »

Whats a Gyro ball? do you have a picture/link? want to help but can't as I don't know what it is!

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_15209.htm?WT.mc_id=2010-08-16-12-42

jenniewb

Ah! One of those! I've seen those and understand the principal, but not yet tried one. They seem like a good idea for the time poor who work in offices etc but being a gym user I stuck to weights.

Have you tried Amazon or Dooyoo for reviews? you may get some good info there.

candyapple_2

My brother has one of these but a more expensive version Powerball, I had a bit play with it last time I was at home but I couldn't get the hang of it.

They are meant to be really good for building up shoulder muscles and wrists, my brother loves his and uses it at least 5 minutes a day.

For £4.99 you really can't go wrong though, I hope you get the hang of yours.

starrystarry

I have a Powerball. Think mine cost about £15 from Amazon. It does take a while to get the hang of it so you need to persevere. I was close to throwing mine in the bin at first. Once you get the hang of it, it's a doddle. I don't know about building up muscles, but it's worked wonders for my wrist pain. Don't need to wear my wrist support much anymore, don't need painkillers. The Aldi one, for £4.99, has to be worth a try.

T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S.

Oh err... it seemed sort of easy for the shoe lace to lose one of its ends when trying to use the gyro ball - not sure if I'll keep this much longer. Do all power balls use a little shoe lace?

Will_Notbe-Riptoff

I bought a gyro ball from Aldi last week. Had never used one before and it took me a couple of days to get the hang of it. Now I am hooked and would recommend anyone to get one and persevere.

The meagre set of instructions does not suggest what the maximum revs should be (other brands of gyro/powerball are rated at 9,000 to 15,000)-I can't get it above 9,368, what have other users experienced?

Re the starting lace: both plastic ends came off mine so I dipped each end in superglue and left them to go solid - sorted!