Front & Reverse Hyperextensions for the Back Exercises

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Corey Beasley, owner of DNA Fitness. I’m going to walk through a couple of movements for your lower back, your hips, and your hamstrings, utilizing the physio ball. We’re going to start of with the regular hyperextension. You’re going to lay over the ball. Upper body kind of folds over. You’re going to arch up, using your back muscles. I want you to keep your chin tucked. You’re going to come back down, arching up, and back down. Obviously, as you want to make it harder, you can bring your hands from back to front as you raise your hands up front there is more weight out over the ball, makes the movement more difficult. From the side, you start off here coming up, arching up. More advanced, bring those hands up forward. The next movement is the opposite. It’s called a reverse hyperextension. Basically, what’s going to happen here is instead of upper body moving, you’re going to have your arms straight; you’re going to come out a little bit further out over the ball so your toes are just kind of barely touching. You’re going to bring your legs up and back down. You want to make a little bit more difficult, hit the glutes a little harder. You’re going to turn your toes out, come up, hold it, and back down. There are two variations that help out your lower back, your hips, and your hamstrings."