Ab Work with a Medicine Ball?
I was working out in the gym where I work the other day, and a fitness instructor that had just finished up a class in the room I was doing my floor work in showed me a new method to help sculpt my abs. It didn’t involve any fitness equipment like a big ol’ treadmill, besides a small ball, so it would not take up a lot of space if you chose to buy one or try it out.
I think I like it too, because unlike my fairly routine way of doing crunches and modified crunches (you can only do so much with the belly after they all become some kind of crunch), I actually felt this one the next day.
She said to grab one of the robber covered medicine balls in the basket, and put it between my knees when I was doing crunches. I thought, how different could this be? But when I did it, I actually felt a lot of resistance in my lower ab area, an area that I often find very hard to isolate in my ab workouts.
I did about twenty crunches with the medicine ball between my knees and boy did I feel them in my lower abs! I would recommend this one, it’s a simple twist on the traditional ab crunch, but it really made my belly feel the burn. I would imagine you could also use an ordinary rubber ball - the size of a soccer ball - to accomplish the same effect on the isolation.
