A medicine ball may also be referred to as an exercise ball. It looks like an ordinary ball of about 14 inches in diameter and is used for training at the gym or home. Medicine balls are available in 1-15kg. They come in various colours too for extra aesthetic effects. Professionally, boxers can use the medicine ball to improve their abdominal muscles by dropping it on their chest; just as an opponent will punch it. Athletes can also thrust it at their colleagues to build resistance for their arm, chest and leg muscles.

Gym and Fitness offer various kinds of medicine balls. You can have regular medicine balls and medicine balls with handles for easy use. The handles are used to hold the ball into various positions or simply hang them onto racks.