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Summary: By balancing with one leg, you are exercising your core, legs, and arm muscles. Learn how to do balancing exercises with a stability ball in this free exercise video about Pilates ball workouts.
"This exercise is about balance. And, when doing balance on the ball, you are really focusing on engaging that core. When you are doing balance, if your core is not engaged and it becomes loose, it is really easy to go like this. But, when it is engaged it is much more difficult to move anything because all of the muscles are tight. So, what we are going to do is take a nice inhale. Inhale again and raise the arms. Find yourself a point that you can focus on that will not be moving. Inhale and exhale. Lift one leg. Pull in on the core. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Moving the arms challenges the core. Focusing on shoulder stability. And, lower that leg. Take another inhale. Raise the arms. Exhale. Engage the core and lift up the other leg. Inhale. Pull the arms in. Exhale. Reach them up. Inhale. Down, and lower that leg."
eHow Article: Pilates Ball Exercise: Balancing