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Technique

  1. Start in a Plank position, with your legs on the ball.
  2. Bend at the hips to bring them higher and your feet closer to your hands.
  3. Try to get to a position where the hips and placed vertically over your shoulders and the shoulders are fully opened ( Shoulder flexion backward).

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Pelvis
  • Quadriceps

Secondary

  • Hip adductors
  • Neck
  • Abs
  • Obliques
  • Back
  • Shoulders
  • Iliacus
  • Rectus femoris
  • Psoas major
  • Upper trapezius
  • Levator scapulae
  • Rectus abdominis
  • External oblique
  • Internal oblique

Equipment

Appears in

Joint movements
trains stretches
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Stability ball plank tuck

Novice
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Stability ball toe taps

Novice
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Straight legs butt walk

Novice
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Stability ball ab rollout

Intermediate
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Stability ball hamstring curl

Novice
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