Sentences with phrase «perform on an exercise ball»

But the best part is the crazy choreography, which features dancers hanging from the ceiling and falling into water — and an entire routine performed on exercise balls.

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Research has shown that when these exercises are performed on a ball instead of the floor or a stable surface, they become... Continue Reading

Research shows that when performing basic exercises such as crunches, planks and push - ups on an exercise ball, you'll engage more core muscles than when performed on a stable surface.

Another study from that year looked at circuit training performed with either stable exercises or movements done on a Bosu ball (half a stability ball, with the other half flat surface) and a suspension trainer.

Of the equipment studied, performing a crunch on an exercise ball and a using a vertical knee raise machine showed the most muscle activation.

Remember when performing dumbbell exercises on a stability ball, your ball should be able to support your weight and the added equipment weight.

This fun and unique class involves a variety of exercises performed on a physio ball.

As opposed to the fitness and BOSU balls discussed above, where you are performing and exercise while on the ball itself, you use the medicine ball to provide resistance.

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.

This strength exercise requires you to perform conventional lifts while focusing on holding the ball of the kettlebell with as much pressure as possible in between your palms.

Each exercise in this free exercise ball routine is performed on a large stability ball.

The stability ball has an advantage to many of the exercises traditionally performed on the floor such as the crunch.

I normally use dumbbells when performing ab exercises on the ball.

I am all for working on core exercises (it is important to have a strong core) but I don't believe you need to do as many isolation exercises as people do, there are ways to get a strong core whilst doing other exercises e.g. compound exercises, using free weights, exercises that need you to balance whilst performing them, working on a bosu ball etc..

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).

Unstable surface dynamic core exercises, usually performed on a Swiss ball, are commonly used for training the abdominals.

In contrast, Kohler et al. (2010) compared the triceps muscle activity during seated barbell and dumbbell shoulder press on a stable bench or swiss ball reporting that the stable bench in both conditions produced superior levels of muscle activity than performing the exercise on a swiss ball.

Performing the exercise on a swiss ball also works the core muscles as they need to stabilise the body.

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.