Effective Low Impact Move to Strengthen Your Core – V-Sit Crunch

V-Sit Crunches with StrongBoard Balance® is an effective low impact exercise that will work your abs, obliques, lower back, hip flexors, and core. This is an intermediate exercise and should be performed on a stable surface prior to performing it with the StrongBoard Balance board. This exercise utilizes your body weight to isolate the core and primarily targets the abdominals, tone the obliques, strengthen your back muscles, and challenge your entire core. This exercise will also strengthen your hip flexors, quadriceps, and hamstrings too.

Featuring Darius Alexander – Athletic FIT Coach – StrongBoard Balance Ambassador
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Steps

1. Start by placing StrongBoard Balance in a lateral position. Sit on the center of the platform, basically balancing on your bum.

2. Lean back to a 45-degree angle and place hands on the floor behind you for support, keep your abs braced and your spine lengthened and neutral.

3. Lift both legs off the floor, into a “V” shape.

4. Push both legs out, then pull your knees into your chest.

5. Repeat for the desired amount of repetitions or duration.

Tips

Be sure to keep the spine erect and stabilized by bracing your abdominals through the entire set. For more of a challenge, you can slow your tempo. Other movements can be performed in V-Sit, like side to side and Sidewinders, butterfly, Russian twists, toe taps, etc.

Effective Low Impact Move to Strengthen Your Core - V-Sit Crunch

StrongBoard Balance® utilizes MULTI SPRING TECHNOLOGY™ that works with your body to deliver the perfect amount of stimulation to keep your core musculature and stabilizing muscles engaged and contracted, while training your central nervous system, improving posture, proprioception and reaction time.

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Ditch Crunches for This Better Ab Move – Plank Pose Knee Kicks

Plank Pose Knee Kicks will work your abs, obliques, shoulders, lower back, and chest. This is an intermediate exercise and should be performed on a stable surface prior to performing it with the StrongBoard Balance board. This exercise is primarily for the abs, obliques, and shoulders but will also work the hip flexors, and the lower back.

Featuring Nedra Quintana – CPT

Steps

1. Come into plank position with feet on sliders. Place hands palms down on the StrongBoard Balance platform, shoulder width apart. Be sure your abs are braced, hands are directly below your shoulders, and head is in proper alignment with your spine.

2. Holding plank position, pull one knee towards your chest and then return back to starting position. Then repeat with the opposite leg.

3. Keep alternating your legs by sliding back and forth for desired amount of repetitions.

4. (Option – Hold plank position an teeter the board back and forth with your arms)

5. Repeat for desired amount of sets or duration.

Tips

Keep your abs braced at all times. Stabilize your hips by keeping them from moving side to side. For more of a challenge, hold knee up in kicked position for an extra squeeze or speed up your tempo to create more of a mountain climber move.

Ditch Crunches for This Better Ab Move - Plank Pose Knee Kicks

StrongBoard Balance® utilizes MULTI SPRING TECHNOLOGY™ that works with your body to deliver the perfect amount of stimulation to keep your core musculature and stabilizing muscles engaged and contracted, while training your central nervous system, improving posture, proprioception and reaction time.

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Great Exercise for Strengthening Lower Abs and Back: V-Sit Scissors

V-Sit Scissors will work your abs, lower back, hip flexors, and core. This is an intermediate exercise and should be performed on a stable surface prior to performing it with the StrongBoard Balance board. This exercise utilizes your body weight to isolate the core and primarily targets the abdominals, tone down the obliques, strengthen your back muscles, and challenge your entire core. This exercise will also, believe it or not, strengthen your quadriceps and hamstrings too.

By strengthening these muscle groups through this particular exercise, you will help eliminate common lower back issues and can lead to back injury if not done properly. Getting your core to properly activate with your spinal erectors and neighboring stabilizers, you create a stronger trunk to help improve posture and proper gait.

Featuring Nedra Quintana – Personal Trainer

Steps

1. Start by placing StrongBoard Balance in a lateral position. Sit on the center of the platform, basically balancing on your bum.

2. Lean back to a 45-degree angle and place hands on the floor behind you for support, keep your abs braced and your spine lengthened and neutral.

3. Lift both legs off the floor, into a “V” shape.

4. Begin crossing one leg over the other, alternating each leg over the other.

5. Continue to criss-cross legs, lowering towards the floor without touching and back up.

6. Repeat for the desired amount of repetitions or duration.

Tips

Be sure to keep spine erect and stabilized by bracing your abdominals through the entire set. For more of a challenge, you can change your speed to incorporate a more aerobic workout. Other movements can be performed in V-Sit, like side to side and Sidewinders, butterfly, Russian twists, toe taps, etc.

Great Exercise for Strengthening Lower Abs and Back - V-Sit Scissors

StrongBoard Balance utilizes MULTI SPRING TECHNOLOGY™ that works with your body to deliver the perfect amount of stimulation to keep your core musculature and stabilizing muscles engaged and contracted, while training your central nervous system, improving posture, proprioception and reaction time.

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Get Ripped Fast With Uneven Push Ups with Plyo

These Uneven Push Ups with Plyo will work your pectorals, deltoids, triceps, scapular stabilizers, and core. This is an intermediate exercise and should be performed on a stable platform prior to using StrongBoard Balance board. This exercise is primarily for the chest, shoulders, and the scapulothoracic region but will also strengthen the entire core musculature.

Featuring Julien Greaux – CPT
Instagram: @rudeenergy

Steps

1. Begin in Position 4, laterally positioned next to the board. Place one hand over the StrongBoard Balance® logo while the other is placed on the ground. Extend the legs behind you, balancing on the toes.

Lower the chest towards the edge of the platform, bending the elbows to a 90-degree angle.

Extending the elbows, press away from the ground and platform to the starting position and repeat the movement for the desired repetitions or duration.

Repeat the movement on the other side.

For Plyo Portion

1. Begin the movement as if performing the Uneven Push-up.

2. Lower the chest towards the edge of the platform, bending the elbows to a 90-degree angle.

3. At the bottom of the movement, explosively press away from the ground and platform, propelling the upper body up and over to the opposite side of the platform.

4. The hand on the platform will now be on the ground and the opposite hand on the platform.

5. Lower the upper body into a push-up and repeat the movement.

6. Repeat the movement for the desired repetitions or duration.

Tips

When performing uneven push-ups and the plyo push-ups, keep weight evenly distributed while focusing on pec minor stretch on the platform side. Absorb landing during the plyo push-ups by keeping abdominals braced.

Get Ripped Fast With Uneven Push Ups with Plyo

StrongBoard Balance utilizes MULTI SPRING TECHNOLOGY™ that works with your body to deliver the perfect amount of stimulation to keep your core musculature and stabilizing muscles engaged and contracted, while training your central nervous system, improving posture, proprioception and reaction time.

Single Leg Deadlift – Best exercise for strength, balance, and posterior chain development

This Single Leg Deadlift is simply the BEST exercise for strength, balance, and posterior chain development. This will work your glutes, erectors, hamstrings, anti-rotators, and core musculature. This is an intermediate exercise and should be performed on a stable surface prior to using StrongBoard Balance board. This exercise is primarily for the glutes, hamstrings, and erectors, but will also strengthen the lower extremities and the entire core musculature.

Featuring Mike Curry, ACE CPT, CES, and SBB Inventor, StrongBoardBalance.com
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Steps

1. Grab a kettlebell and place your right foot across the center of StrongBoard Balance platform.

2. Bend forward at your hips, keeping your chest up. Slowly lower your body as far as you can until you are parallel to the floor, using the gravity of the kettlebell to stretch toward the floor.

3. Simultaneously, bring your left foot out behind you so it is parallel to your spine and to the floor.

4. Pause, then slowly bring your body back to starting position.

5. Repeat for desired number of repetitions or duration. Switch legs.

Tips

As you come up, use your glutes to push your hips forward instead of lifting from your back. Keep abs braced and hips leveled during the entire movement. This exercise can also be used with other modalities like Havyk Triads and/or GripBells.

Single Leg Deadlift - Best exercise for strength, balance, and posterior chain development

 

StrongBoard Balance utilizes MULTI SPRING TECHNOLOGY™ that works with your body to deliver the perfect amount of stimulation to keep your core musculature and stabilizing muscles engaged and contracted, while training your central nervous system, improving posture, proprioception and reaction time.

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