Hamstring Exercise With Fitness Ball

Video Transcript

"Hamstrings are a really important exercise. We also want to make sure that we are stretching our hamstrings and our glutes because they don't get enough stretching. They get enough exercise because they are the largest muscle exercise, especially our gluteus and our bottoms and our hamstrings but we don't stretch them enough. Now what we are going to do is a strengthening exercise. So you want to take the ball, put it at chest level, your feet are hip to the part, you are going to look at a spot in front of you as if you are putting the ball are down on the ground making sure that your feet are parallel and your toe should be pointing straight ahead. You want to return to your starting position, place that ball down as if you are putting it on your foot and press your heel to come up. So you are stepping up on your heel and you are pushing back on your heel that is to engage those hamstrings. So beginner's do 8, so it is going to be 4 on each side, intermediates do 10 that will be 5 on each side and if you are really feeling ambitions and you want to work those hamstrings, do 20 for those advanced levels. That is going to be 10 on each side and you really feel that on your hamstrings. Should feel it in the back of your legs. Do 3 sets; remember 3 is the magic number. "