Another variation is to place your hands on a bench and
your feet on an exercise ball.
For lower chest, the process is exactly the same but this time, you're putting
your feet on an exercise ball instead on a flat bench.
Lie on your back and put the outside edges of
your feet on your exercise ball.
Not exact matches
You can also use a small playground or
exercise ball and place him belly down
on there and roll him back and forth bringing him forward to his hands and then back to his knees or
feet.
How to: Begin laying
on your back, palms down
on the floor, with your legs extended and your
feet resting
on top of a large
exercise ball.
Once you get more comfortable with the
exercise, try the inclined version by resting your
feet on a medicine
ball to increase muscle activation.
That includes
exercise bands, bodyweight
exercises, climbing fake trees, squatting co-workers and challenging crew to balance
on the
ball of 1
foot for as long as we can.
If you master this stomach
exercise and want a greater challenge try oblique crunches
on a bosu
ball with the
feet up or bicycle crunches
on the bosu
ball with the
feet up.
Abs
exercises 3 circuits with all
exercises done using a medicine
ball and for 10 reps. sit up with
feet flat
on floor, Roman chair sit up, v sit ups, leg raises with medicine
ball held by
feet, boxing abs tensions (Tense stomach while partner hits abs with medicine
ball)
Lay
on your back
on the back with your knees bent and your
feet fairly wide apart - you'll need a good base of support for this
exercise so that you don't roll off to the side of the
ball.
Personal Training Tips: If you find this
exercise for building core strength is too challenging
on the
ball, you can regress this core
exercise and make it easier by performing it
on the floor or with your
foot on a step.
The 3 abs
exercises below focus
on the abdominal muscles while you're lying
on the floor with the
exercise ball between your
feet and your knees.
Starting Position: Begin by lying
on your back, and place the
exercise ball between your
feet.
And other ab
exercises on the stability
ball, such as roll - ins and piques focus
on the abs by placing the
feet on the
ball.
How to do the
exercise: Lie flat
on the floor and raise yourself up
on to your hands and
balls of your
feet, your hands should be shoulder width apart and your
feet should be together.
There are several factors that can be altered during press up performance, including posture (i.e. elevation of
feet and / or hands) and hand position (i.e. width of hand placement), instability (i.e. performing the
exercise on a stability
ball), and loading (e.g. using elastic resistance bands).
You can do this routine at home using a couple of dumbbells
on each hand for resistance and a couple of 25 lb plates placed next to each other as a platform to place the
ball of the
foot on in order to perform the
exercise.