Stability Ball Ab Exercises: Reverse Curls With Knees

Video Transcript

"What we're going to do with the stability ball is put it right here behind our knees and then facilitate a reverse curl. The key here is to use the ball for passive resistance. So we're going to be kind of pressing against the ball with our legs as we curl up towards the air, so the ceiling. So you've got just a small area to work here with the reverse curl. It's a lower part of the rectus abdominis that you're trying to focus in on. So again, put the ball between your knees and you're going to drive it in with your heels, and lift and lower. Again, make sure you've got a good grip. Try not to bring it out here, that's different work. You want to try to maintain tabletop with knees over the hips. Drive the ball in, curl and release. It's not a big movement that you're working with here -you're working with a small range of motion here in this area, or at least trying to make it smaller. So just let your hands relax, shoulder blades, soft neck, inhale, exhale, curl and release. You can really hear and see me working there because it's just a small movement that I've got to control and squeeze this big cushion of air while I hold the contraction. Work in to about 10 to 12 reps."