Medicine ball

A medicine ball is a between 0.8 and ten -pound ball of thick leather or rubber material.

In general, the medicine ball has a diameter of 30 to 35 centimeters and a weight of between one and five kilograms, although there is also much heavier and more light-hearted pieces. It is designed as a full ball, that is, it is not how many other balls inflated with air.

The term " medicine ball " comes from the United States where this type balls took first as a medicine for the body use because almost all muscles are strengthened while throwing and catching. The invention is William Muldoon (1853-1933) attributed to, a police officer from New York City, who participated in boxing and wrestling tournaments under the name Iron Duke. Soon the ball was also input as sports equipment in the curative gymnastics. The medicine ball is filled with wild hair or cork.

The nudism pioneer and sports writer Hans Surén to have brought the first medicine ball in 1917 from an English prisoner of war to Germany.

Carl Diem claimed to have the medicine ball launched in the U.S. and then Germany in 1913.