Summary: Try medicine ball squats on a balance ball. Learn medicine ball exercises for strength training and conditioning in this free fitness video.
Sue Conrad is a personal trainer with a certification through the American Council on Exercise (ACE) since 2001. She currently teaches cardio kickboxing, and she trains clients of...read more
"Next clip is going to be side squats with the balance trainer. What you want to do is come into a nice even angle with your balance trainer, place one foot and try to keep it fairly balanced in the center of your balance trainer, both hands on your medicine ball. Now you want to place your feet just a little further than shoulder width and you may have to readjust. What you are going to do is sit back in a side squat position and push your balance and your medicine ball forward. Relax your shoulders and keep your head nice and level and exhale as you push the ball away from you. Make sure that the knee does not go forward at the toe and you are sitting back in your imaginary chair. Go ahead and switch sides, post your foot in the center of the balance trainer with both hands on the medicine ball, body in an upright position and you are going to push forward instead of back. Exhale as the ball goes forward and inhale on the way back. You will feel this through the shoulders, forearms, biceps, gluts, quads, hamstrings. Push forward and exhale, sit back and watch the position of the knee, nice and slow and controlled."
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