Fitness Tip: Core/ Oblique Exercise
A great core and oblique exercise that you can do at home begin by lying on the floor on your back. Next, lift your legs off the floor and point your feet towards the ceiling.
Fitness Tip: Dips on Chair
For those of you just tuning in, we've just started our at-home exercise series and today's post will explain how to exercise your triceps using nothing more than a chair...
Fitness Tip: Leg Exercise You Can do at Home
Today marks the first day of the home exercises that can be done without equipment that we'll be covering this month. Today's post if about the lunge. The lunge is a compound leg exercise that works both the front and back of the thighs (quadriceps and hamstrings) as well as the butt (glutes).
Fitness Tip: Core Oblique Exercise
This will mark the last post of our stability ball series, and starting in February will be starting an in-home exercise series without equipment, just body weight and things you can use around the house.
Fitness Tip: Tricep Push-up on Ball
Today's exercise is a bit more advanced, but can easily be modified for beginners. To begin, place your stability ball on the floor and while standing over the ball, place your hands on top of the ball so that your thumbs and index fingers touch forming a triangle shape.
Fitness Tip: Abdominal Leg Raise
Another great abdominal exercise to do with a stability ball is the ab leg raise. This is performed by lying on your back on the floor, and placing the ball between your legs...
Fitness Tip: Scissor Squats with Ball
A good compound leg exercise is the scissor squat using a stability ball. To perform this exercise, place the ball against the wall, and with your legs in a scissor position with the right leg in the forward position, lean against the ball with your right arm hung over the ball...
Fitness Tip: Push-ups with Feet Elevated
Continuing on with the stability ball series, this post focuses on push-ups. But not your average push-up, this push-up involves a little more because you are not only performing the exercise, but you are working your balance just to maintain your position on the ball.
Fitness Tip: Sit-up with Stability Ball
While many people feel strongly against sit-ups, I think they still have their place especially among athletes. One challenging version of a sit-up using a stability ball starts by lying on the floor with the ball in the overhead position...
Fitness Tips: Single Leg Squat
The single leg squat is a great compound leg exercise that requires some balance. With a stability ball on the floor, place the ball behind you and put one leg on the ball so that your shin and top of your foot is making contact.