| 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.
|
Repeat
this exercise ball exercise 6 times on each side.
Repeat this exercise ball
exercise 10 times on each side.
Repeat this exercise ball
exercise 15 times on each side.