Stability Ball Reverse Crunch Exercise

Video Transcript

"This functional core exercise using the stability ball is the reverse crunch. All you want to do is have a really good mat, come on down, and you want to think about pulling your navel in towards your spine. Then take your legs up over the ball and really get your heels wrapped around the ball. You want to pull the ball up towards your glutes, here. So you want to have your heels hooked over the ball. Bring your arms down alongside your body. Draw that navel in towards your spine. Pull your shoulder blades back so that you're anchoring your torso, and then lift up your hips as high off the mat as possible. When you're breathing through this exercise, inhale to prepare, exhale as you lift. Inhale down, exhale up. This is a really great exercise to hit that lower portion of your rectus abdominis. Ladies, if you've had babies, I know I hear it all the time, "How do I get rid of this little pooch down here?" Well this is it right here, the reverse crunch. Continue to perform this exercise until you feel that you have fatigued all of your muscles. That is your reverse crunch."