Cool Tool: Gliding Disks

One of my favorite recent additions to our awesome slew of fitness tools is the Gliding Disk. Gliding Disks look like a cross between a Frisbee and a paper plate. Simple as they may be, they're really quite clever. The woman who created them, Mindy Mylrea is a saucy little thing who uses a variety of household objects in a clever way for fitness training. After a previous relationship was formed with QVC, she introduced to them "her paper plate training". In love with Mindy and her fresh ideas the Gliding Disk was born. Sweet story, aye?

I took my first Gliding class at a fitness conference a few years back from Mindy...and then I took a few more. Not only was I sore, I was impressed and eager to share my cool new tool with my own clients.

Gliding Disks are great for cardio, strength and flexibility training. They're also a lot of fun. As Mindy demonstrates in about seven million videos, you can use them in infinite ways. What I like most is that they actually improve my clients form. It's impossible to lunge backward and have my front knee shoot over my ankle (which is a bad thing to do). I've tried to lunge incorrectly on the disks, but I can't. And that's great! They also force/allow the user to go through their full range of motion, which is helpful in growing both strength and flexibility.

A set of Gliding disks are inexpensive at only $20 a pop. They're light-weight, portable, purposeful, and fun to use. I highly recommend them as a great addition to any workout. To check them out along with a ton of instructional videos visit GlidingDisks.com.