HOW TO…
- Get on your knees on with the stability ball in front of you. Make sure your toes are placed on the mat, and your shoe soles are almost vertical.
- Place your hands and forearms on the stability ball, and roll the ball away from you.
- Lift your hips until you are leaning on the stability ball with your lower arms, and resting only with your toes on the floor. You are now in a low plank position on the stability ball.
- While holding the plank position on the stability ball, slowly lift your left leg off the floor. Raise it until it is about level, or only a little higher.
- Hold the leg up for 2 seconds before lowering the leg back onto the floor.
- Next, repeat with the right leg. That completes the Stability Ball Plank Alt Leg Lift exercise.
Note: When doing a low plank on a stability ball, the angle of your arms with your body will generally not reach a 90-degree angle. That is fine, the exercise is about the core and your legs. Keeping a balance on the ball is harder if you try to reach a higher angle.
Goal: Aim to do leg lifts in this position 10 times with each leg without resting in between.
Variation: If the Stability Ball Alt Leg Lift exercise is too difficult, limit the height of the leg lift to make it easier.