Pilates Ball Exercise: Reverse Crunches

Video Transcript

"I am going to show you a series of crunches where you can use the ball in your legs to facilitate that crunch. So, let us go ahead and take the ball. Bring our legs out straight. Engage the abs and curl down. The first one we are going to do is a reverse crunch. We are going to bring the legs up and bring the ball between the legs. Now, when people do a crunch, they need to bring the ball up towards the ceiling. What a lot of people do is use their arms to push off and take a lot of tension in their neck. What I would like you to do is, as you are doing this exercise, try and gently move your neck so you take the tension out of it. So, it is. Inhale. Lower. Exhale. Lift. Inhale. Lower. Exhale. Lift. From here, we can do a full crunch. Which is not only working the lower abs but also the upper abs. You can take a nice inhale and exhale. Inhale and exhale. Inhale and exhale. There is another exercise that you can do on this one that is kind of fun, actually, where you have the ball in your legs. You take a nice inhale from the floor. Exhale. Come up. Bring the ball in your arms. Inhale. Lower. Exhale. Up. Inhale. Lower. Exhale. Up. Inhale. Lower. Exhale. Up."