30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 1 Introducing The Stability Ball
by Scott Tousignant · Filed Under: Home Workouts
Welcome to the 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge. During the next 30 days I will be sharing some great home office exercises, quick nutrition tips, motivational strategies, routines to help you strengthen your neck, back, and shoulders and correct any problems that you may have in those areas, home office workouts, home office cardio sessions, and home office stretching routines.
The goal of the 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge is to improve your business, fitness, and life during the next 30 days by incorporating home office fitness into your workday. Get ready to improve your productivity, mental performance, and energy with this fast, fun, and balanced approach to success in all areas of life.
Here’s your first Home Office Fitness Challenge: Have A Ball!

Sitting on a stability ball while working at your desk is a great way to engage the core muscles that support your spine. These are the deep back, abdominal, and transverse abdominal muscles that are activated every time that you move your body. They are the foundation of all movement.
You may also find that sitting on the ball at your desk will keep you mentally alert and focused. Your brain has to constantly send signals to your body to ensure that you stay upright. Simple little movements on the ball each hour will do wonders for your productivity and mental performance.
The ball that I sit on at my desk and use for my home office fitness is a 65 cm stability ball. I recommend that you alternate between sitting on the ball and your regular office chair in 15 minute increments. After seven days you can increase the amount of time that you sit on the ball to 30 minutes. As I mentioned, sitting on the ball is working your muscles so you don’t want to over do it in the beginning.
As mentioned in the video above, I prefer to use an adjustable dumbbell set mainly because it’s a real space save. Plus if you were to purchase all the dumbbells individually the cost would be much greater. I use the PowerBlock Classic Adjustable 5-45 Pounds Per Dumbbell Set. Angie use the PowerBlock SportBlock 24 Adjustable 3-24 Pounds Per Dumbbell Set. You don’t necessarily need the adjustable set. A few dumbbells will do the trick, but I’m sure that you’ll find it a cost and space saver with the adjustable set.
Your Task For Today:
Get yourself a stability ball and use it in 15 minute increments. Get comfortable with it. Move your hips from side to side and front to back. Have fun and bounce on it for a little bit. You’ll be amazed at how it will pick up your mood and boost your spirits.
Thank you for taking part in the 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge. I’m looking for to sharing in this journey with you. If you decide to take photos or short videos of your home office fitness, business, and life transformation during the next 30 days be sure to share them with us.
Tomorrow’s topic is going to be “Changing Your Focus”. This has been the secret to my success and I can’t wait to share it with you.
You Rock! Enjoy the experience,
Scott Tousignant
PS I would like to thank Problogger for inspiring me to create the 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge. I love challenges and find that they are a fun and creative way to achieve the goals that you have been putting off.
PPS If you are ready to take the next step and transform yourself into the super-focused, highly productive, and beautiful person that you really are… get yourself started with the Fat Loss Quickie Home Office Fitness program today!
More Articles In This Series
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 1 Introducing The Stability Ball
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 2 New Motivation
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 3 Convenient Healthy Food
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 4 Shoulder and Neck Exercises
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 5 Lower Back Exercises
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 6 Motivation Tip
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 7 Quickie Cardio Challenge
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 8 Quickie Nutrition Tip
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 9 Quickie Workout
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 10 Reduce Stress
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 11 A Balanced Life
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 12 Accountability
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 13 Social Support
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 14 Foam Roller
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 15 Healthy Kitchen
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 16 Time Management
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 17 Inner and Outer Thigh Exercise
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 18 Abs Workout
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 19 The Benefits
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 20 Ten Minute Cardio
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 21 Bad Knees
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 22 Quickie Breakfast
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 23 Your Mission
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 24 Conquering Limiting Beliefs
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 25 You Are a Role Model
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 26 Full Body Workout
- 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge: Day 27 Office Cardio












Cool I am in!
Great challenge, one tht I am completely ready for!
To everyone Increased fitness success
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Great question Angie. The smaller adjustable dumbbell set is not very big and bulky and is surprisingly comfortable to handle. I highly recommend it. The weight goes from 3-24 pounds.
When you get to the bigger sets they do become a bit big and bulky but I’ve gotten used to them. If you have the space, individual dumbbells are best. I’ll show you a tower that we have that is still very space efficient in an upcoming video.
In terms of when you should increase the weight… Your focus should always be on progression. You can progress by decreasing your rest periods, doing more reps, or increasing the weight. Every week you should aim for some small progress.
So to answer your question it’s not so much a matter of knowing when to increase the weight as it is a matter of doing. Just do it!
You may do few reps at first, but you can build it up. I would rather you go for a 6-10 rep range than 15 reps. This will really crank your metabolism and help you burn fat.
I know you can do it Angie! Keep ROCK’n!
ok!
U got it!
count me in!
u just reminded me to dust off my ball and use it again…
would you believe I used it the entire month while waiting for
my office chairs to get shipped here when I moved?!
now – whaddo i get when i WIN this challenge???
heeheheee
Coach Deb
That’s awesome Deb. Now stay in that habit of sitting on the ball. Dust that puppy off
What do you win? Increased productivity, more focus, more energy, even tighter body
I wasn’t planning on giving away a prize for this FREE challenge, but maybe I’ll just do that.
The big prizes are given away for the Fat Loss Quickie Home Office Fitness Transformation Contest here…
http://fatlossquickie.com/blog/home-office-fitness-transformation-contest/
Glad that you’re in. Woo Hoo!
Hey Scott,
Jumping on your challenge a few days late but as the saying goes, “better late than never.” I love this idea of sitting on the stability ball while at the computer. I do use it as a chair from time to time but never thought to use it while at the computer (where I do spend a lot of time).
My only concern is, due to shoulder issues, I have to make sure that I sit as ergonomically correct as possible and when seated on a 65mm ball in front of the computer I’m way too low. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Andrea
Awesome Andrea… You ROCK!
There are 75 cm balls available too and that may be perfect for sitting at the desk.
Sitting on the ball is a great way to generate the practice of awareness. You need to become aware of your posture… and it will work some muscles that you never knew you had in the process.
You’ll be happy to know that I’ll be doing a few segments on shoulder, neck, and back exercises and stretches to help you and many others during this 30 day challenge.
I’m so glad to see you participating. Looking forward to your great results.
Hey Scott,
Really enjoyed your video. You really make it motivating by presenting it with energy that I can feel even through the screen.
Best part, we really can have a ball with fitness, especially a healthy fitness lifestyle and you are an Awesome example Scott!!
Thanks and will be having a ball at home this week, thanks to you !
Bill
Thanks Bill, I really appreciate that. I am grateful for the energy and passion for life that I have and it’s my wish for everyone to live a life full of vibrant health and energy.
Have a ball man!
Hi Scott, Saw Coach Deb’s tweet and decided to check it out.
I am sitting on a ball to watch the video and already sore, even though I run and hike a lot and work out about once a week.
I will get a bigger ball like yours and follow along to get in the good habits you will be teaching.
Joining a bit late but will catch up fast enough.
Thanks for the opportunity!
Clay
Ok, I’m in. I need something like this. Even though I practice and teach yoga, I sit way too much. Give me some ideas!
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Hi Scott, I’ve loved my ball for years, but I haven´t sat on it in front of the computer before yesterday. I’m loving it by now.
My concern is that I have a massage ball (with rounded bumps) and wanted to check if it’s advaisable to sit there for long periods.
Also, do you have an advice regarding the ball size? I’m short 1.5m (I think 5f 4in) and weight 92 pounds. The ball I’m using is about 52cm diameter and it seems it’s small but not too small.
I’m buying a larger one, what size you recommend for me? Any advice on how to choose the perfect size?
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I’m not too sure about the massage ball. I haven’t sat on one of those for extended periods of time.
The size that seems to work best at a desk is either 65cm or 75cm. You want to make sure that you elbows are above the desk.
Scott,
Even though I work in a gym (marketing) I rarely take time to exercise for myself. After spending all day there, I like to come home and be at home with my family. I also love blogging and affiliate marketing, so I spend too much time on the computer and not enough time on fitness. When I found your home office fitness challenge, I knew this was something that was a good fit for me. I’ve started lots of programs and stopped them, but this time, I’m going to take your advice and blog about my experience and that will help me be more accountable. I’m off to a good start today, sitting on my stability ball typing this instead of sitting on my comfy sofa with really bad posture. Thank you so much for breaking this down into small steps.
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Scott -
Just wanted you to know that this is working. I’m 7 days in and my wife said today – without prompting – “hey, I think your stomach’s getting flatter…”
And I think I’m down about 5 pounds.
I’m at the beach, so 2 weeks ago I went out and bought the ball and some dumbbells to help me out.
And I’m briskly walking 2.5 miles every other morning to the pier end and back… I’ll send you some pictures.
Here’s one of sunset the other night:
http://twitpic.com/jscd0
David
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