GoFit Core Disk and Training DVD

by GoFit

Product Features

• Full-body training tool inflates or deflates for varied levels of difficulty
• Includes DVD training session featuring fitness trainer and author Mark Verstegen
• Adjusts easily with standard ball pump and needle
• Great tool for rehabilitation exercises
• Core disk measures 13 inches in diameter

Product Description

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Develop your stability and core strength with Katrina Hodgson and Karena Dawn using the Core Disk. This package includes one Core Disk with a smooth surface and a reflexology surface, plus a training DVD. Labeled exercise positions are imprinted directly on the Core Disk for quick reference. Made of soft rubber, the Core Disk allows adjustable levels of difficulty with inflation or deflation. Additionally, it has a smooth/textured side as well as a reflexology side. DVD included features instruction from Team Fonda Trainers, Katrina Hodson and Karena Dawn.

Fitness icon Jane Fonda teams-up with GoFit to proudly re-introduce Jane Fonda's Workout with an all-new product line. After 30 years, a new generation can experience Jane's award-winning workouts. Jane Fonda's workout has a stellar new cast of trainers, showing you all the right moves on DVD, with equipment designed to get results.

About Team Fonda
Jane Fonda created Workout thirty years ago and is excited to bring it to the next generation with the help of Team Fonda. Members of Team Fonda are respected leaders with unique and specialized backgrounds and workouts to provide a fitness routine to fit individual needs.

Fitness and Lifestyle personalities Katrina Hodgsons (BS Health Sciences, NASM, AFAA, AAAI Certified Trainer, nutritionist) and Karena Dawn (triathlete, personal trainer and nutritionist) are the new generation of fitness and health. Founders of the Los Angles based fitness movement Tone It Up, this dynamic duo is making waves with their fresh and fun approach to fitness and weight loss. Tone It Up is a multi-platform health and fitness lifestyle brand, that began as an online resource for women seeking fun, accessible health, nutrition, and fitness content. Tone It Up has expanded to over 14 million viewers, making Katrina & Karina the most sought out fitness experts online. This success led them to launch their own fitness DVD series, as well as a private training studio headquartered in Hermosa Beach. They are thrilled to be named the future of fitness by legendary actress and fitness icon, Jane Fonda.

What's in the Box?

• 1 Core Disk, 15-inch diameter
• 1 Katrina Hodson and Karena Dawn Training DVD
• 1 Air needle

Product Description

GoFit's new Core Disk with DVD training session is a great to help challenge your body in new ways during your workout routine. The Core Disk can be easily inflated or deflated to change the level of difficulty. Work your core muscles as well as your upper and lower body for balance training, push-ups, sit-ups, and much more. The DVD features Mark Verstegen from Athletes Performance, the trainer to world class athletes and author of the famed book, "Core Performance."

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 36 x 14.6 x 8.5 inches ; 21 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007W2FEK
• Item model number: GF-CDISK
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,787 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)
  • #61 in Sports & Outdoors > Exercise & Fitness > Balance Trainers > Balance Boards

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

80 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great balance and core training tool, January 10, 2007

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Anonymous Reader (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GoFit Core Disk and Training DVD (Sports)

This disk is great for different core and other stability exercises for the shoulders, hips, ankles, etc. I really like the "reflexology" side that massages your feet while you exercise - double the benefit. It's a bit like those massaging shoes so you may or may not enjoy that side. It's also very good just to sit on in your office chair to provide some hip and core movement while sitting and remind you to have good posture. I've been using it this way and periodically stand on it or do one leg exercises during the day. I plan to keep one at the office and get another one for home. In pictures, these types of disks look like they are not challenging but in person they definitely are if you try all the exercises, e.g., just basic lunges or calf stretch/raises are quite hard due to the extra balance effort involved. For the simple calf raises, I can make it very difficult just by holding my other leg higher in the air in various directions. Also, I immediately added air (maybe too much) after purchasing to make the exercises more difficult. I thought (probably wrongly) that the default state might be too easy.

Note that the included DVD by Mark Verstegen is excellent and probably provides a significant advantage over alternative products. The exercises he shows can also be done without the disk if they are too difficult. See one of his sites for some free examples to get some ideas of what is possible and what kind of "core" and "pillar" training one should incorporate. I've also had good experiences with other GoFit products and items associated with Core Performance or Athlete's Performance. See my review of his book for more info. I haven't tried a wobble board and I've only briefly tried the Bosu and just standing on a regular gym ball (after seeing this on tv - very difficult). I cannot really compare the difficulty or effectiveness of using those types of equipment vs. this one. I am quite happy with the Core Disk so far, though, so I probably will stick to it. It seems more multidirectional and should be challenging my balance for a long time. I feel various muscles I didn't know I had working to try to stabilize my body in all directions just standing on it. If I feel my balance is getting "too good" (not likely), I'll start adding some light weights or a weight vest or toss a medicine ball while doing the various balance exercises. That should make this disk a great investment for as long as it lasts. The price was definitely another plus. It is also small enough to take on trips and can be inflated/deflated with a standard bicycle pump (a needle is included with the disk).

Bottom line: whether you're a weekend warrior, or you're getting older and worried about your balance, this disk will help you improve, whatever your fitness goal or current routine may be.

65 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good balance tool for training, September 22, 2006

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David (Chapel Hill, NC USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: GoFit Core Disk and Training DVD (Sports)

This product fit the bill for me in seeking something like a wobble-board, but not quite as difficult. It is a partially-inflated cushion (with the usual air hole to add or remove air) with a smooth side and a nubby side, made of strong plastic. It can be used standing on one or both feet, and the enclosed, well-made DVD provides many useful additional exercise suggestions for other parts of the body.

41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get your Balance Back, April 14, 2007

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Trinity - See all my reviews

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This review is from: GoFit Core Disk and Training DVD (Sports)

This disk is not for the very obese or people just starting to exercise. I am over 45 and purchased this to get my balance back. Even while trying to stand on the disk and trying to keep steady I can feel my leg and stomach muscles working. Have a chair close by to help steady yourself in the beginning while trying to stand on the disk. It will be quite awhile before I am able to do half of the exercises demonstrated. The disk is great to put under your back while lying on the floor to stretch aching back muscles.