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Exercise Ball Exercises - Ab Crunch 1

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Starting Position
Action
  • Use your abdominals to pull your shoulders up and reach toward your knees with your hands.
  • 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


1ballsRepeat this exercise ball exercise 6 times.

2ballsRepeat this exercise ball exercise 10 times.


3ballsRepeat this exercise ball exercise 15 times.





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