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 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.
Fitness Tip: Rotational Plank on Ball
If you've been following this month's posts, you know stability ball exercises are what we're focusing on and today's exercise is the rotational plank on the ball. This is considered more of an advanced exercises for starters, and you start by placing the ball on the floor...
Fitness Tip: Reverse Back Extension
The reverse back extension is a great modification to a traditional back extension on a stability ball. To begin, place the ball on the floor and lay over the ball with your abdominal area resting on the ball...
Fitness Tip: Abdominal Crunch
Continuing with the ball exercise series, today's post focuses on the standard abdominal ball crunch. This is the exercise that most people are familiar with on a ball. It's a great exercise because it offers low back support while performing a standard crunch...
Fitness Tip: Reverse Leg Curl
The reverse leg curl is a great exercise for the hamstrings and the glutes and calves also assist. While lying on your back on the floor, put your legs on a stability ball with your calves resting on the ball. For stability, spread your arms out with the palms towards the floor.