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Single-Leg Stability Ball Leg Curls Lie on your back with your heels on the ball, and lift your hips toward the ceiling. Curl the ball toward your hips using one leg, then extend it back out.
Stability ball leg curls are dynamic exercises that engage the hamstrings and glutes while challenging your core stability. Lie on your back with your feet on a stability ball. Lift your hips ...
Stability Ball Leg Curls. Shutterstock. Ball leg curls target the hamstrings, glutes, and lower back while challenging your stability and coordination. Using a stability ball adds an element of ...
Leg curl machine. The leg curl is performed while lying face down on a bench, by raising a weight with the feet towards the buttocks. This is an isolation exercise for the hamstrings. [5] Equipment Dumbbell, cable machine or leg curl machine. Major variants Seated (using a leg curl machine variant); standing (one leg at a time).
The leg raise is a strength training exercise which targets the iliopsoas (the anterior hip flexors). Because the abdominal muscles are used isometrically to stabilize the body during the motion, leg raises are also often used to strengthen the rectus abdominis muscle and the internal and external oblique muscles.
The exercise is performed from a seated position while the weight rests on the upper leg, just above the knee. The person engaged in this exercise lifts the weight by pushing down on the balls of the feet. [1] Due to the discomfort of higher weights on a bar, barbells used for seated calf raises are frequently padded or wrapped in a towel.
Leg Raises with Stability Ball (3 sets of 12 reps) Ball Pikes (3 sets of 10 reps) Ball Toe Touches (3 sets of 15 reps) Directions: Perform this series in a circuit format, resting for 30 seconds ...
An exercise ball is a ball constructed of soft elastic, typically in 5 diameters of 10 cm increments, from 35 to 85 cm (14 to 33 in), and filled with air. The air pressure is changed by removing a valve stem and either filling with air or letting the ball deflate.