Fun Ways to Strengthen Your Core- Dead Bugs

Dead Bugs will work your obliques, quadriceps, and is a fun way to strengthen your core. The exercise works your deep inner core: your transverse abdominis, multifidus, diaphragm, and pelvic floor, along with your entire scapulothoracic region.

Missy Sullivan, ACE CPT,
SBB Certified Trainer and Instructor,
Certified Spinning Instructor, and
SimplyFitStudio Instructor
Thesimplyfitstudio.com
IG: @incredibly_fit_missy

Steps

1. Start with StrongBoard Balance in lateral position. Lay your back on top of the platform (face up), with your midline over the springs. Extend your arms toward the ceiling, directly over your shoulders. Raise your legs off the floor, knees should be bent 75-90 degrees over hips, with calves parallel to floor.

2. Keeping your shoulders down and feet flexed. Brace your abs and extend your right arm and left leg away from you.

3. Tap your toe to floor and return to center. Immediately repeat on the opposite side.

4. Continue alternating sides for desired amount of repetitions.

5. Repeat for desired amount of sets and/or duration

Tips

The most important thing to remember when you are doing the exercise is to keep your abs tight and lower back pressed into the board. Synchronizing your opposite arm and leg movements is great for overall coordination. You can progress the exercise by adding additional reps or sets. For more of a challenge, you can add other modalities such as dumbbells, ankle weights, and/or resistance bands.

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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Tired of Crunches? This move will tone your belly fast! – Reverse Push Up with Barbell Rotation Row

Reverse Push Up with Barbell Rotation Row will tone your abdominals and obliques FAST. Work your entire core including scapula stabilizers, anti-rotators, and back with this awesome power move.  This is an advanced exercise and should be performed on a stable surface prior to performing it with StrongBoard Balance. This exercise is primarily for the Internal and External Obliques and Core but will also work the Anti-Rotators and the Erector Spinae.

Featuring Mike Curry ACE CPT, CES,  and Inventor of StrongBoard Balance®
Instagram: @StrongBoardBalance
Twitter: @StrongBoard
Facebook: @StrongBoardBalance
StrongBoardBalance.com

Steps

1. Start on all fours with your hands holding a barbell. Position your feet on the StrongBoard Balance platform, shoulder width apart, and move into a full plank position. Be sure your abs are braced, hands are directly below your shoulders, and your head is in proper alignment with the spine.

2. Holding plank position, slowly lower yourself into a push-up and then back up to starting position.

3. As you are coming up from the push-up, pull one side of the barbell up off the floor. Pause in that position before gently bringing the bar back down to the floor.

4. Lower yourself back into a push-up and then back up to starting position.

5. Repeat steps 2 through 4. As you are coming up from the push-up, pull the opposite side of the barbell up off the floor. Pause in that position before gently bringing the bar back down to the floor.

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

Tips

Keep your abs braced. Use your anti-rotators to help stabilize your hips. This will assist in keeping them from moving side to side. You can start this exercise by lifting the barbell just off the floor and progress to lifting it as high as you can. For more of a challenge, you can use a heavier barbell. You can also hold pause for a longer period of time.

Tired of Crunches? This move will tone your belly fast! - Reverse Push Up with Barbell Rotation Row

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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Burn Belly Fat and Tone Your Upper Body with this Perfect Move! – Slider Pikes

Slider Pikes on StrongBoard Balance® will work your abs, obliques, shoulders, lower back, and chest to burn belly fat and tone your upper body. This is an intermediate exercise and should be performed on a stable surface prior to performing it with StrongBoard Balance. 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. Start in plank position, with feet on sliders and 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 the spine.

2. Holding plank position, pull both feet towards the board while raising your glutes into the air. Then bring your body back to starting plank position.

3. Repeat for desired amount of sets or duration.

Tips

Keep your abs braced at all times. Stabilize your hips and keep them from moving side to side. For more of a challenge, hold pike position for an extra squeeze or speed up your tempo.

Burn Belly Fat and Tone Your Upper Body with this Perfect Move! - Slider Pikes

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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Strengthen Your Core With This Dynamic Plank Variation – Hover Plank Teeters

Hover Plank Teeters on StrongBoard Balance® will work your abs, obliques, shoulders, lower back, and chest to strengthen your core fast. 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 chest and the lower back. This is such a great exercise and a whole new twist on your standard plank pose. This will work your entire kinetic chain and even force your legs to participate in this total body burn.

Featuring Nedra Quintana – CPT

Steps

1. Start with knees and feet on the floor, position hands palms down on the SBB platform, shoulder width apart.

2. Bring your knees up just high enough to hover above the floor. Be sure your abs are braced, your hands are directly below your shoulders, and your head is in proper alignment with your spine.

3. Holding hover plank position, push the platform to one side and then the other.

4. Continue to rock the platform back and forth for the desired amount of repetitions or duration.

Tips

Keep your abs braced at all times. Keep your hips from moving side to side. This will force the core to work harder. For more of a challenge, speed up or slow down your tempo in the teeter phase of the exercise.

Strengthen Your Core With This Dynamic Plank Variation - Hover Plank Teeters

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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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
Instagram: @humblemuscle #MOTIV8

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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