Full Body Swiss / Exercise Ball Workout is a free 1 min workout plan with 8 illustrated exercises for your abs, back and legs. Follow the workout online, save it to your WorkoutLabs Fit account or download it as a printable PDF.
Tap any exercise in the workout to see the muscles worked, clear exercise illustrations and step-by-step instructions. Each workout includes sets, reps, rest times and notes so you can follow the plan without guessing.
How long does the Full Body Swiss / Exercise Ball Workout take?
The full workout takes about 1 minutes, covering 8 exercises with prescribed sets, reps and rest periods. Using the built-in timers and auto-advance keeps you on pace from start to finish.
What muscles does this workout target?
This routine primarily works your abs, glutes & hip flexors, lower back, hamstrings. Tap any exercise in the workout to see a muscle diagram showing exactly which primary and secondary muscles it activates.
How often should I do this workout?
For best results, do this workout 2–3 times per week with at least one rest day in between, and pair it with sessions that target other muscle groups.
Can I download or save this workout?
Yes – you can download this workout as a free printable PDF using the download button, or save it to a free WorkoutLabs Fit account to follow it on your phone, customize the exercises and track your progress.
Get into a push-up position, resting the tips of your feet on a swiss ball. Keep your legs straight behind you.
Bend your hips and pull your feet towards your chest, allowing the ball to roll forward. Hold.
Slowly roll back to the starting position and then continue rolling forward and backwards for the desired amount of repetitions.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Shoulders
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
Bring yourself to the ground and enter an elevated push-up position with your hands below your shoulders and your feet directly behind you. Carefully, insert one foot at a time into hanging TRX bands.
Bend at the hips and drive your glutes skyward, making sure to keep the core contracted. Focus the tension in your shoulders as you make an inverted “V” shape.
Pause and slowly return to the starting position while maintaining a tight core.
Position yourself on all fours with your torso on a swiss ball and hands and feet on the floor. Stretch your legs back and keep your hands under your shoulders.
Engage your abs and slowly walk your hands forward until your feet lift off the floor. Carry on walking out until your quads or knees rest on the ball in a plank position.
Slowly bend your knees in towards your chest allowing the ball to roll forward. Tuck your knees under your torso as your hips lift towards the ceiling.
Slowly straighten your legs and roll the ball out to the starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Chest, Shoulders
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
Bring yourself to the ground and enter an elevated push-up position with your hands below your shoulders and your feet directly behind you. Carefully, insert one foot at a time into hanging TRX bands.
Maintaining a tight core, slowly lower yourself while keeping your balance. Once your upper arms are parallel with the floor, pause, and return to the starting position.
Bring your knees in towards your elbows, feeling the contraction in your abdominals. Slowly extend your feet back into the starting position. That is one repetition.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Calves, Hamstrings, Quadriceps, Shoulders
Lie face down on a padded surface. Place your hands beneath your shoulders and make sure your feet are extended straight behind you. Push yourself up into a classical Push-Up position. Keep your hips are slightly elevated. Tighten your core.
Keeping your gaze straight, push off the ground with your feet. Bending your knees, allow your feet to come up near your hands.
Immediately, push off the ground again with your feet, extending your legs straight behind you once again to the starting position.
Lie on your back with legs extended and heels resting on a swiss ball. Keep your arms flat out to the sides.
Squeeze your glutes and raise your right leg off the ball until it is in line with your left thigh. Push your hips up to form a straight line with your body.
Pull your left heel towards you and roll the ball as close to your buttocks as possible.
Roll the ball back to starting position, lower your right leg and alternate to the left leg.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves
Lie on the ground with a TRX Suspension Strap at your feet. Lift both your feet into the strap, making sure they are secure. Tighten your core and place your hands at your sides.
Drive your hips up while maintaining a straight line with your body. Curl your feet in, moving them towards your butt. Maintain balance with your hands on the ground.
Once your feet reach your butt, slowly extend your feet back to the starting position. Do not allow your hips to drop. Contract the core during the entire movement.
Lie prone on a swiss ball with your feet hip width apart. You can place your feet against a wall for better stability. Clasp your hands behind your head with elbows pointing out.
Engage your abs and raise your torso off the ball, hyperextending your spine.
Return your torso to the ball to the starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Lower Back
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Hamstrings
Lie face down on a hyper extension bench with your upper thighs and lower hips on the support pad. You must be able to bend at the waist freely.
Lock your ankles under the footpads.
Start with your body in a straight line head to toe.
Place your arms across your chest, behind or at the side of your head.
Slowly bend forward by relacing your, back and abdominal muscles.
Continue as far as possible without rounding your back or raising your thighs from the support pad. You should feel a slight stretch in your hamstrings.Hold for a count of one.
Return to the start position by contracting your back and abdominal muscles until your body is once again straight. Do not arch your back up at the end of the movement. Pause and repeat.
As your strength and flexibility increase, you can hold a weight plate against your chest for extra resistance.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves, Lower Back
Place a loaded barbell in front of you. Position your feet wider than shoulder width. Have your toes pointing out away from the body. Tighten the core and straighten the lower back.
Bend at the knees, lowering your hips down above parallel. Take hold of the barbell with an overhand grip at shoulder width. Focusing the tension in your hamstrings, pull the barbell up. Be sure to keep the barbell close to your body.
Drive your hips forward at the top of the movement. Slowly reverse the movement and lower the barbell while maintaining a flat back.
Sit on an exercise ball, your feet flat on the floor.
Roll the bottom half of your glutes off the ball by walking your feet away from the ball. Your lower back should be positioned at the top centre of the ball.
Place your hands loosely behind or on the sides on the sides of your head, but don’t use your them to pull yourself up. Doing so can cause neck injuries.
Curl your upper body forward rolling your shoulders forward and down towards your hips.
Continue curling forward as far as comfortable. Hold and squeeze your abdominal muscles for a count of one.
Return to the starting position and pause, then repeat.
For added resistance,you can hold a weight plate to your chest.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Lie flat on your back with your feet flat on the ground, with your knees bent at 90 degrees. Alternatively, you can place your feet up on a bench a few inches apart with your toes turned inwards and touching.
Place your hands lightly on either side of your head.
Keep your elbows in so that they are parallel to your body.
Push your back down flat into the floor to isolate your abdominal muscles.
Gently curl your shoulders forward and up off the floor.
Continue to push down into the floor with your lower back.
Raise your shoulders about four to six inches only.
Hold and squeeze your abdominal muscles for a count of one.
Return to the start position in a smooth movement.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Lie on your back. Bring your knees up to a 90-degree angle. Shins should be parallel to the floor. Place your hands behind your head and bring your shoulders off the ground.
Exhale and contract your abdominals. Bring your head towards your knees while moving your knees toward your chest.
Lie with your back flat on an exercise mat and your feet resting on top of a Swiss ball.
Use your feet to roll the ball away from you until your legs are fully extended and your ankles are on top of the ball. This is the start position.
Keep your shoulders flat on the ground and press down with your feet to raise your hips off the floor.
Bend your knees, so that the ball is pulled towards you and continue as far as is comfortable. Hold for a count of one.
Return to the starting position by extending your legs until they are straight.
Repeat.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves
Lie on the ground with a TRX Suspension Strap at your feet. Lift both your feet into the strap, making sure they are secure. Tighten your core and place your hands at your sides.
Drive your hips up while maintaining a straight line with your body. Curl your feet in, moving them towards your butt. Maintain balance with your hands on the ground.
Once your feet reach your butt, slowly extend your feet back to the starting position. Do not allow your hips to drop. Contract the core during the entire movement.
Lie face up with your legs straight and a swiss ball between your ankles.
Raise your shoulders and head slightly off the floor and keep your arms reached down at your sides with hands hovering just off the floor, palms facing down.
Engage your abs, squeeze your inner thighs and ankles into the ball and lift your legs up to a 45-degree angle.
Slowly lower the ball down until it gently touches the floor.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
Stand a dumbbell on one of its plates about 2 feet away from the edge of a bench and sit comfortably on the edge of that bench, using you hand-grip for support. Fully extend your legs towards the dumbbell.
Using your amazing foot-eye coordination, pin each foot underneath the top plate of the standing dumbbell, on either side of its bar.
Bring your knees in towards your chest, taking care not to drop the dumbbell in the process, and hold them as close as you can to your chest for 1 second.
Extend the legs back down towards the floor to the starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Obliques
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
Lay on a mat with your arms flat by your sides and your glutes, hamstrings, and calves all resting on a Swiss ball.
Pull your heels into the Swiss ball allowing you to ‘grip’ the ball between your heels and glutes.
Putting pressure on your arms, roll your lower body back so that your glutes and lower back leave the ground with the Swiss ball held tightly.
Lower your back and glutes slowly back to the ground to complete one rep.
Note – Take care not to lower yourself too quickly, this may cause the Swiss ball (with you attached) to bounce in a strange manner.
Assume a push-up position and rest your forearms flat on a swiss ball. Your legs should be straight behind you with your feet resting on your toes. Keep your legs hip-width apart.
Raise your hips to form a straight line with your body and hold the position for approximately 30 seconds. Keep your core engaged and breathe deeply.
Slowly lower down to starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Obliques
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
Place a BOSU Ball on the ground with the blue rubber side facing up. Carefully, place your elbows on each side of the rubber side. Take a push-up position. Make sure your feet are together, core is tight and hips are level.
Brace your body on the BOSU Ball while focusing the entire contraction in your core. Keep hips from dipping by driving them up at a slight angle if you feel yourself dropping.
Hold this position for the entire set.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Get into a face down position on the floor supporting your upper body on your forearms. Your elbows should be bent at 90 degrees.
Extend your legs straight out behind you, supporting them on your toes and balls of your feet.
Keep your body in a straight line by tightening your abdominal and oblique muscles.
Hold for as long as possible.
For extra balance training and core strengthening, you can lift one arm or leg.
Workout done!
Exercises done
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