Two Questions

[4d5e6f]

I ordered my powerball a few days ago, can't wait for its arrival :). However, I have three questions about it.

1. On the "exercise videos" page, it shows a person holding the powerball and the left hand and says which way to spin it to exercise which muscle group you want. If I'm using the powerball in my right hand, do I reverse the direction that it says?

2. Does the finger/grip exercise also exercise your wrist/forearm?

3. What about volume? If I treat my ball correctly and wait for it to wind down before putting it down/all the other maintenance things, will it still become really loud? Can anybody compare the volume to something else? Like is it as loud as a vacuum?

[Sayex]

I ordered my powerball a few days ago, can't wait for its arrival :). However, I have three questions about it.

1. On the "exercise videos" page, it shows a person holding the powerball and the left hand and says which way to spin it to exercise which muscle group you want. If I'm using the powerball in my right hand, do I reverse the direction that it says?

2. Does the finger/grip exercise also exercise your wrist/forearm?

3. What about volume? If I treat my ball correctly and wait for it to wind down before putting it down/all the other maintenance things, will it still become really loud? Can anybody compare the volume to something else? Like is it as loud as a vacuum?

hello, and welcome to the forum
for question 1 : YES
for question 2: absolutly
for question 3: its not THAT loud, at 15000 i screams a LOT as you can hear in the videos, but at 12000 its like..a mmm like.. dunno.. xD as loud as a tv maybe?? a bit more..?
nothing comes to my mind about the volume of the powerball.. cant compare it right now =P...
anyway REGARDS!

[kab]

yeah, it gets quite noisy after a while. not so much as a vacuum though. kindof like a pentium box cooler that spins at 5000rpm (if you've ever heard one at that speed.... it usually works at 1200 rpm :) ).

but if you clean it a little from time to time it's not that bad

[Adrena1in]

If you want to tone down the volume a bit, (if it annoys you), there's two things you can do.

1) Hold the Powerball so that your palm completely covers the exposed rotor. (Practise this at low revs first in case you touch the rotor. When it's spinning at 13500 revs the surface of the rotor is travelling at about 80mph, and that can burn!), or

2) Buy a Metal Powerball...they're a lot quieter.

But really they're not that loud. I have to turn the TV up a bit if I'm endurance Powerballing at 9000 to 10000 rpm.