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Exercise Ball Exercises - Lunge and Twist

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Starting Position
  • These exercise ball exercises require you to stand with your exercise ball directly in front of you with your shoulders at 90 degrees.
  • Maintain active transversus abdominus and a neutral lumbar posture.
Action
  • Step forward with one leg.
  • Rotate your upper body and pull the exercise ball to the side as with a golf swing.
  • Rotate back and return to the starting position.
  • Repeat this on the other side.
Prime Movers
  • Quadriceps, glutes, trunk rotators including abdominal obliques.
Physio Tips
  • To avoid back injury, keep the rotation controlled rather than ballistic.
  • To avoid knee injury, don't let your weight bearing knee move ahead of your foot, and keep it centred over your second toe.
  • This is a particularly good exercise ball exercise for golfers to generate increased power to the golf swing.
Progression
  • Wrap an exercise bands around the ball and tie it in a door frame to add resistance.


1ballsRepeat this exercise ball exercise 6 times on each side.

2balls
Repeat this exercise ball exercise 10 times on each side.

3balls
Repeat this exercise ball exercise 15 times on each side.




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