Medicine Ball Crunches

Muscle Groups Worked:

Abdominals

How to Perform This Exericse:

1) Start in the laying position with the small of your back/butt on an exercise ball, holding a medicine ball in your hands behind your head.

2) Begin by bringing the ball as far upward toward the ceiling as you can in a crunch-motion, until your torso is perpendicular to the floor.

3) After holding there for a moment, slowly return to the original start position.

Notes:
Make sure that you aren’t bouncing your body on the ball and using momentum to get your torso up.  You can preferentially hit one side of your abdominals by rotating slightly and bringing your body to one side, or the other.