How do you do stability ball side crunches?How do obliques on an exercise ball work?
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Date: 2022-03-04

Keep your neck neutral. The distance between your chin and sternum should not change.

Keep the movement slow and under control.

As with all side-bending exercises, ensure that movement occurs throughout your spine and isn’t concentrated in your lower (lumbar) spine. Since the thoracic spine is designed more for mobility than the lumbar spine, which is designed more for support and stability, more movement should occur in the former.

The weighted stability ball side bend is effective at activating the obliques and other important muscles of the core, strengthening the lateral flexion movement pattern of the spine, improving the mobility of the spine, and helping to develop a strong and stable core.

You can improve your stability by positioning your feet against a wall.

You can make the weighted stability ball side bend easier by positioning your hip lower on the ball or by simply not loading with a weight plate. See the stability ball side bend.

Also known as the weighted Swiss ball side bend and the weighted stability ball side crunch.