Combining ab blasters with obliques on the stability ball can help increase your endurance. Learn how to do a full body workout with a stability ball in this free fitness video.
Sue Conrad is a personal trainer with a certification through the American Council on Exercise. The areas of her specialization are injury rehab after surgery and sports specific training.
Okay, this clip is going to be an ab blaster. You are going to take your stability ball and place it firmly on the ground and you are going to slowly be seated and you want to roll back to provide some support for the lower back. What we are going to do is we are going to alternate between doing crunches and oblique?s which is going to totally blast out those abs. What you are going to do is put your hands gently behind your back, maintain that space between the chin and the chest and exhale and squeeze up. Relax down to your level and exhale on the way up, relax down. What I recommend doing is doing a set of 12 to 15 of the crunches and then go straight in to the oblique?s. When you do the oblique?s on this one you are going to reach across the body and come back to level and if your abs are nice and strong I would try to go with as minimum amount of rest as possible but if you need to rest in between each part of the exercise that is fine as well and as you do these exercises longer you will increase your endurance. See how I am keeping my back nice and stable and reaching across and tightening those oblique?s and we are going to crunch forward and exhale on the way up and then once you have done your set of crunches you are going to go into your oblique?s. You are going to reach across the body, reaching for that imaginary hand on the other side.
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