Work your upper abs with stability ball exercises. Learn easy upper body ab exercises in this free video clip from a personal trainer.
Sue Conrad is a personal trainer with a certification through the American Council on Exercise (ACE). She currently teaches cardio kickboxing. She trains clients of various ages and fitness levels.
Okay, this clip is going to be upper body abs with our legs extended. We are going to roll down. Okay, this is a really good one to sort of test how strong your upper abs are. You are going to have your legs flat, arms extended; you are going to bring the body up as far as you can at an angle. Now you do not want to go all the way forward because that is going to move it into the back so you are going to have a little bit of an angle and you are going to take the body back down. Extend up. On that angle remember, if you are having that slight angle you are going to feel a little bit of a burn and a little more of a challenge. You are going to extend down. You will feel this a little bit more on the upper abs, extend the body up, exhale on the way up, and bring the body down. Now if you have back issues you can always bring the knees in and do the same thing. You are not going to feel it quite as much, but you are still going to feel it a little bit in the upper to mid abs. Okay, let's go back to our extension and we are going to bring it up nice and slow, slow and controlled movements and we are going to bring it back down nice and slow. Okay, bring it up nice and slow. You want to control your back and ab muscles keeping it nice and long as you come down. Keep slight bend in the elbows, bring your back up nice and straight on the angle, and take it back down.
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