Planks on an Exercise Ball

[Artista]

Ewwwww....even more torture Can't wait to try these!

[marni]

I think that was me who was complaining about the circles on the exercise ball in a single and double legged plank. Today he added a "bug" position to the fun. Full plank on the ball with two legs, lift one and put your knee as close to your armpit (hopefully touching the exercise ball) and back, and then armpit and then back, repeat until you collapse, cramp up or fall over, then immediatly do the other side + 1. evil evil evil

[Catrin]

hmmmm will mention these new forms of torture to my trainer. While he does torture me with the exercise ball, so far both versions of the planks he has me do are on the ground. The regular plank I can hold for a long time, so it is probably time for a more evil version

[Artista]

I think that was me who was complaining about the circles on the exercise ball in a single and double legged plank. Today he added a "bug" position to the fun. Full plank on the ball with two legs, lift one and put your knee as close to your armpit (hopefully touching the exercise ball) and back, and then armpit and then back, repeat until you collapse, cramp up or fall over, then immediatly do the other side + 1. evil evil evil

LOL!!! Thanks so much for posting about these exercises, Marni. I'm going to try the "bug" tomorrow. Hopefully, I can skip the cramping part & go straight to collapsing

Catrin, like you, I've gotten to the point where I can do long planks & about a ga-jillion crunches without ever really feeling the workout. If the minor stiffness in my core this morning is any indication, these ball planks are fast, efficient & much more effective than the old standard core workouts.

[Veronica]

Plank position with one elbow on a Bosu ball and the other arm is doing a cable row.

Cable pull ups with your feet on a ball.

Veronica

[Artista]

Plank position with one elbow on a Bosu ball and the other arm is doing a cable row.

Cable pull ups with your feet on a ball.

Veronica

Those hurt just thinking about them! I'm going to add them to my personal "Know Your Limits & Work Up to It" list.

This is getting fun. How about all of you other TE'ers? What is your favorite, (or should I say "least favorite"), EVIL exercise?

[nscrbug]

I do something that I call "rollouts" on the ball. I kneel on the floor behind the ball, then placing my hands clasped together on the ball...I roll the ball out in front of me as far as I can...hold for a second or two...then roll back to starting position. I feel these in my core and also my shoulders/upper back area. I do 3-4 sets of 20, and in between each set I do a set of 12 pushups.

[crazycanuck]

One of my coolio swiss ball exercises atm is (and I hope I can describe this properly)
Kneel on swiss ball-don't sit on your heels etc
Lift arms over your head
Breathe and bend over as far as possible using your quads etc for stability
Lift self back up

To add more excitement, hold a broom stick horizontally whilst doing the above.


Another one using a bosu or 1/2 bosu
Sit on & balance then manouver self back to flat position then bring self back up. I can sort of do it on a swiss ball but keep losing balance at a certain point.