Core Exercises: Angled Isolations

Video Transcript

"In this clip, we're going to be doing an angled isolation. OK, you're going to take this ball, place it at the base of your spine. OK now, if you have back issues, you want to make sure this is nice and snug. OK, and you're starting with your knees bent, feet flat on the ground. OK now, we're going to add our arms extended. We're going to relax down, lower our bodies slowly until you feel a little bit of a tweak in the obliques and raise it back up. Now it's very important to keep your back nice and straight. You don't want to be curving that back. Just come down low enough to where you feel that contraction in your abs and raise up. And inhale as you come forward. Exhale down and inhale forward. It's a very small movement, but it's very effective. You're going to feel your torso tighten the more you do this exercise. So you're going to exhale, inhale as you come up, keeping the shoulders relaxed. Exhale, coming down that slight angle, inhale on the way up. Exhale."