Core Movement: Ab Twists With Ball Video

Core movements with a ball are a great way to work the oblique muscles. Learn how to perform ab twists with a ball properly from a celebrity trainer in this workout video.

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Roll back
Relax shoulders
Twist & center
Elbow to floor

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Grace Lazenby is a celebrity trainer and co-founder of iTRAIN.com. Grace has a degree in exercise physiology and she is certified with the Physical Mind Institute. iTRAIN.com is your own "Hollywood personal trainer right in your pocket." Each audio and video workout consists of an elite Hollywood Trainer or World Champion Athlete mixed with original music to satisfy your workout needs. iTRAIN provides more than 275 workouts in its library ranging from treadmill to elliptical, cycling, strength training, and many more.

Hi everybody. I'm Grace Lazenby, and we are going to work obliques today. So, your core movement, these are going to be oblique twists but you are going to use a ball. You can use a light medicine ball, so you are going to exhale, roll back, tip your tailbone under, hold. Good. Now remember, really keep those lower abs in to protect your lower back. Relax your shoulders and then from here, all you are going to do is twist and center. Now, as you twist, try to keep your elbow as close to the floor as possible. You are going to exhale on the way down and center, and lower and center, and lower. Good. Let's change to the opposite side and twist, and center, and twist. So again, you really have to keep the glutes tight, tailbone under, to protect that lower back. Good. Two more. Good. Last one. Hold. Good. Now take a little breather come on up. This time, we are going to have a little bit larger range of motion. So what you are going to do is reach the left leg back, touch the ball to the floor and lift, and then you are going to reach back to the opposite side and lift. Here we go, five, six, seven, and twist, and up. Now as you twist to either side, reach your opposite arm out, that is going to stretch out the opposite oblique, and reach. Good. Now look to the back of your mat. That will mean you are really twisting through the torso. Again, go to your own range of motion. Good. Remember you are going to exhale on the way back, and you are going to inhale on the way up. So try to do 2 or 3 sets, about 12 or 15 repetitions, whatever feels comfortable for you. Let's go four more; again, you can mix them up; three, and two, and relax. Good. You can always come up and take a nice twist for the waist; a lot of times I like to just twist and stretch out through the outer hip and the waist, lift the chest, and relax. Good. Take a nice twist to the opposite side, inhale, lift that back up, exhale, hold. Excellent work. And that is your oblique work, your core movement of the day. I'm Grace Lazenby. We will see you next time.

Core Movement: Ab Twists with Ball Video

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