If you’re looking for some more variety for your core workout, here’s a great exercise. Be prepared though. It requires a good amount of core stability and perfoming this one correctly requires control.
Stability Ball Hamstring Curl
Here’s what it means.
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!
This week’s video is an advanced exercise that will challenge your core and balance.
Stability Ball Drop and Cross Video
Click here to learn how to do the stability ball drop and cross.
Strengthen your core with the Stability Ball Pass
You’re either going to love or hate this exercise, but there’s no doubt that it will help you develop a strong core.
Click here to build the core you’ve wanted with the Stability Ball Pass
Try the Stability Ball Jacknife for a Powerful Core and Abs
This is one of my favorite exercises!
If you’re ready for an advanced exercise to improve your core strength and challeng your balance, try the Stability Ball Jacknife.
Click here to learn the Stability Ball Jacknife.
Spice up your routine with the Stability Ball Tuck and Extend
A lot of exercisers think the only exercise they can do to build their core is to do endless crunches.
Boring.
Too much spinal flexion.
Boring.
Isolates the Rectus Abdominus while not recruiting other muscles.
Boring.
Spice up your routine with the stability ball tuck and extend
Too easy for you? Add a push up as you extend your legs.
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!
Click here to build a strong core with the stability ball rollout
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.
Add this challenging core exercise to your plan to develop rotational strength.
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