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Exercise Ball Exercises - Ab Crunch 3

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Starting Position
  • Get yourself out to the supine position (Exercise Ball Exercises - Assuming the Supine Position)
  • Put your hands behind your head but don't interlock your fingers.
  • Keep your feet hip width apart or closer.
  • Head neck and hips should form a straight line from your head to your knees.
Action
  • Use your abdominals to pull your shoulders up.
  • Visualize the distance between your rib cage and your pelvis as shortening as you do this.
Prime Movers
  • Abdominals, neck flexors
Physio Tips
  • Push your tongue to the roof of your mouth to facilitate deep neck flexors so as to avoid neck strain.
  • Also, push your chin down as though to squeeze an orange between your chin and your chest.
Progression
  • Have someone hold your feet as you move forward and perform this ball exercise with the ball under your pelvis.
  • Hold a weight across your chest.


1ballsRepeat this ball exercise 6 times.

2ballsRepeat this ball exercise 10 times.


3ballsRepeat this ball exercise 15 times.





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