- 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.
Exercise Ball
1 min
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9 exercises
The Double B! Back and Biceps! Don't forget to note the amounts of weight used, especially for the progressive overloading exercises. Stay hydrated, limber, and mean! Let's go!
Swiss Ball Ab Pike Press
Swiss Ball Back Extensions
Swiss Ball Crunches
Swiss Ball Knee Tuck to Chest
Swiss Ball Push-ups
Swiss Ball Push Ups
Swiss Ball Reverse Crunches
Swiss Ball Hand Off
Swiss Ball Leg Lifts
This Exercise Ball 1 min gym workout plan effectively targets your glutes, abs, arms and back.... Easily follow this workout with confidence on your phone or printable exercise program with our clear exercise demonstrations. You can also look up step-by-step instructions for each of the 9 exercises and see which muscle groups they target. Enjoy!
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Exercise Ball
1 min
·
9 exercises
The Double B! Back and Biceps! Don't forget to note the amounts of weight used, especially for the progressive overloading exercises. Stay hydrated, limber, and mean! Let's go!
Swiss Ball Ab Pike Press
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Shoulders
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.
Swiss Ball Back Extensions
Primary muscle group(s):
Lower Back
- 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.
Swiss Ball Crunches
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
- 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.
- Pause and return to the starting position.
Swiss Ball Knee Tuck to Chest
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
- 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.
Swiss Ball Push-ups
Primary muscle group(s):
Chest, Shoulders, Triceps
Secondary:
Abs
- Place a Swiss Ball on the ground and lie face down in front of it. With your hands beneath your shoulders, push yourself up into a classic Push-Up position. With a tight core, place one foot on the Swiss Ball. Once you feel balanced, position the other foot on the ball as well.
- Maintaining a braced core and a flat back, slowly lower your upper body towards the floor. Focus all of the tension into your chest. Your feet will remain on the ball, fighting for balance during the movement.
- Push yourself back into the starting position before beginning again.
Primary muscle group(s):
Chest
Secondary:
Abs, Shoulders, Triceps
- Facing down, place yourself on the ground with your hands flat on the floor, directly below your shoulders.
- Place your feet on top of a bench or box. Only your toes and balls of your feet should be touching the floor.
- Maintain a flat back and tight core before lowering your chest towards the ground. Bend your elbows at a 60-degree angle until your chest is just above the ground. You should feel a stretch across your chest. Hold for a count of one.
- Push yourself back to the starting position by straightening your arms. Do not lock out your elbows.
- Repeat.
Swiss Ball Push Ups
Primary muscle group(s):
Chest, Triceps
Secondary:
Abs, Obliques
- From a kneeling position, place a your hands on a Swiss ball at a shoulder width distance apart.
- Slowly, while maintaining your balance, raise your knees off the ground so that your body is in an extended push-up position.
- Keeping your balance and your body straight, lower your chest towards the Swiss ball until it just touches.
- Push your hands ‘through’ the Swiss ball driving your body back up to the starting position. Try to keep your elbows close to your side throughout the entire motion.
Primary muscle group(s):
Chest, Triceps
Secondary:
Shoulders
- Place a medicine ball on a bench and ensure that there is enough friction for it to stay in place without support.
- Place your hands on the top of the medicine ball and extend your feet out so that your body is in a fully extended, starting push-up position.
- Slowly lower your body until your chest lightly touches the medicine ball.
- Using your chest and triceps push your hands ‘through’ the ball forcing your body to rise back up to the starting position. Contract your pectoral muscles at the top position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Triceps
Secondary:
Abs, Chest, Shoulders
- Position yourself on all fours on a mat.
- Place your hands in front of you and shoulder-width apart.
- Now bring your hands in towards the center until the tips of your index fingers and tips of your thumbs are touching. This creates a diamond shape between your hands. Your elbows and wrists should be in line with your chest.
- With your fingers facing forwards, lift off your knees so that your body forms a straight line and just your hands and toes touch the floor.
- Keep you pelvis straight and abs engaged and aim to keep a straight back throughout the movement.
- Bend your elbows and lower your body towards the floor, aiming to touch your chest to the top of your hands. Pause briefly.
- Return to the starting position by extending your elbows and lifting your body off the floor again.
Swiss Ball Reverse Crunches
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.
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
Secondary:
Lower Back
- Lie flat with hands under your buttocks.
- Keep your knees together and pull them in towards you while moving your torso towards them (lift your head, neck and shoulders up).
- Hold and then slowly return to starting position.
Swiss Ball Hand Off
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
- Sitting on the ground, begin by placing a Swiss Ball between your feet. Lie back and extend your arms overhead.
- Contract your abdominals and your hip flexors, simultaneously bringing your upper and lower body together. Carefully pass the Swiss Ball to yourself and lower back to the starting position.
- Repeat the contraction and place the Swiss Ball between your feet again. Slowly descend to the starting position, alternating the back and forth motion.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
- Lie face up on with a medicine ball between your hands and your arms extended behind you. Keep your arms and legs straight and then raise your feet an inch off the floor.
- Raise your torso and legs up at the same time and touch the medicine call to your feet. Hold for a moment.
- Lower down to starting position with arms and ball behind your head.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
- Lie flat on an exercise mat, extending your arms straight back behind your head.
- Fully extend your legs also. This is the start position.
- Bend at your waist and at the same time, raise your legs and arms to meet in a closed jackknife position. Exhale as you do this.
- At this point, your legs should remain fully extended at between 35-45 degrees from the floor.
- Your arms should be fully extended, parallel to your legs.
- Your upper body should be raised off the floor.
- Return to the start position by lowering your arms and legs back to the floor, exhaling as you do so.
- Repeat.
Swiss Ball Leg Lifts
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
- 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.
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