Medicine ball toss crunches is an extremely fatiguing exercises that builds a powerful core. Learn how to perform medicine ball toss crunches properly from a professional trainer in this workout video.
Begin seated on floor
Use partner
Catch ball
Engage abdominals
Toss back to partner
Michael Rosengart is a professional fitness trainer in Santa Monica, California.
Off-season training for football: The medicine ball toss crunch, also known as the medicine ball toss sit-up. This exercise is going to come towards the end of this third super set and it's really great to help fatigue your body and then work with this power exercise to really help develop power through your core which will then translate over into a lot of core stability on the football field especially when you're in explosive contact. This is a partner drill so we're going to be using a medicine ball and I'll be stationary here while [PH] Jonesy is going to be lying on the ground over here. What Jonesy's going to do is he's going to catch the ball as I toss it to him. And I'm going to try to toss it up out of his reach so as he's sitting back he has to reach for it and he'll engage his abdominals to start with. So are you ready, Jones? Okay. So here we go, coming back. That is a horrible toss, a little better there and he's coming up and he's really trying to explode and toss the ball right through my chest each time. And every time that you go back, try to bring the ball all the way back to touch the ground behind you. Good. And we're going to do 10 of these, one more, and we're going to do one more and then you're going to notice in the close-up, Jonesy's form as he's working up through the crunch, he's very symmetrical and he's throwing with both arms at the same time. Good.
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