When many people train with weights, they focus their efforts on the muscles in the front of the body, but forget about the muscles in back, the posterior chain. If you can’t see them in the mirror, they must not be important, right? Wrong.
It’s time to show the hammies some love and here’s a great exercise to work them. Give the Stability Ball Hamstring Curl a try and let me know what you think!
The big game is tomorrow and here’s my predicition. Check out the video below where I use my TRX Suspension Trainer to give you the prediction.
I love training with the TRX. It’s versatile and effective. You get a great total body workout and can get it quick! Drew Bress calls the TRX “the greatest piece of functional fitness equipment that exists”.
My latest video highlights a great exercise that you probably remember from your high school days. At the time, you probably thought it was torture. But it was really a great cardio and functional strength building exercise.
Build a strong core with the stability ball rollout
In this video, I’ll show you another great exercise that you can do with a stability ball to develop your core.
This is another challenging exercise that will stress your abdominals, low back, shoulders, and chest. Be sure to brace your abs with this one, as with all core exercises, and only go out as far as you can while keeping the natural curve of the low back. If the back begins to fall inward, stop and return to the start. As your strength develops, you’ll be able to go our further. Proper form is critical to the success of the exercise and most importantly to your health!
Add Rotation to your Program with the Stability Ball Oblique Crunch
The stability ball is a pretty versatile piece of equipment. If you’ve been watching my videos, you’ll see that I use it for quite a few exercises.
The body moves in three planes of motion. First is the sagittal plane, which involves forward and backward movement. For example, walking on a treadmill is a sagittal plane movement. Second is the frontal plane which is side-to-side motion. Third involves the transverse plane, or rotational movement. Most injuries that occur in life do so in the frontal and transverse planes, yet most exercise machines are designed for sagittal movement. Unless you incorporate those movements into your exercise, you’re at greater risk for injury.
There are lots of very effective exercises that you can do, other than the standard boring curl up, to work your abdominals.
The bicycle is just one of many that you’ll find on my YouTube channel and I’ll be adding even more over the coming weeks. With this exercise, you’ll activate the obliques, rectus abdominus, and transverse abdominus helping to improve core rotational strength.
Give it a try and leave me a comment to let me know what you
Work your abs doing the bicycle
think!
P.S. I wish I could do every video from that dock. It’s truly one of my favorite places in the world.
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