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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®
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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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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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Filed Under: Abs, Core, EXERCISES, Hip Flexors, Intermediate, Lower Back, Obliques, Position 5 Tagged With: abs, balance, balance board, core, core strength, crunches, exercise, fitness, fitness blender, hip flexors, low impact, lower back, MUSCLES, obliques, STABILITY, StrongBoard, strongboard balance, strongboard balance board, v-sit crunches, workout Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Abs, Chest, EXERCISES, Intermediate, Lower Back, Obliques, Position 3, Shoulders Tagged With: ab move, abs, balance, balance board, chest, core strength, crunches, exercise, fitness, fitness blender, knee kicks, lower back, MUSCLES, obliques, plank, shoulders, STABILITY, StrongBoard, strongboard balance, strongboard balance board, workout Leave a Comment

Abdominal Exercise That Will Make You Ditch Your Crunches

Ditch your crunches for this effective abdominal exercise that will work your obliques, shoulders, and core. This is an advanced exercise and should be performed on a stable surface prior to using StrongBoard Balance board. This exercise is primarily for the obliques and shoulders, but will also work the entire core musculature, along with the serratus anterior and Scapulothoracic region.

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

1. Start by holding a GripBell with both hands as you step onto the StrongBoard Balance platform. Be sure your feet are furthest from the fulcrum (springs), resting against the platform handles.

2. Keep your chest up, shoulders in your back pockets, knees slightly bent, and abs braced.

3. Holding the GripBell with both hands, begin rotating from the torso as you lower yourself into a squat position and bring the GripBell down to your right side at a 45-60 degree angle. Be sure to keep the hips as square as possible. Most of your rotation should come from your obliques.

4. Keeping the spine erect, bring the GripBell back up and across the chest to the left side, lifting up at a 45-60 degree angle as you come back to standing position.

5. Repeat for the desired amount of repetitions.

6. Switch sides and repeat steps 1-6.

7. Repeat for the desired amount of sets.

Tips

Keep a slight bend in the knees when standing on the platform. Be sure to exhale on effort. For additional challenge, you can use a heavier GripBell. Be sure to follow the rotation with your head/eyes. This will bring in your vestibular system and change the reaction of the springs. This exercise can also be performed with a medicine ball or dumbbell.  

Abdominal exercise that will work your obliques, shoulders, and core

 

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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Filed Under: Advanced, Core, EXERCISES, Obliques, Position 1, Shoulders, Shoulders Tagged With: ab exercise, balance, balance board, core, core strength, crunches, exercise, fitness, fitness blender, gripbell, MUSCLES, obliques, shoulders, StrongBoard, strongboard balance, strongboard balance board, workout Leave a Comment

Abs-olutely

What is one area where we all would love to firm up? Oh, you know – it’s our mid-section. We all want the perfect six-pack. But why are washboard abs so hard to achieve?

With any exercise, it really does come down to nutrition. Trainers and nutritionists used to say it was 70% of your results. Now they are saying as much as 80%. You could be doing every abdominal exercise known to man and woman, but if you are eating poorly, you will never see them.

First, you need to make sure you are eating the correct number of calories to give the body the fuel it needs, to perform the certain exercises necessary, to help us achieve those phenomenal abdominals. Be sure to get an adequate amount of protein and complex carbohydrates. Try to cut back on salt, sugars, and alcohol. Fruit is great for you, but try to limit fruit to only the morning and / or afternoon meals. Watch your starches. Of course, it would also help a lot if you could eliminate white foods such as bread, pastas, rice, and sugars.

Drink plenty of water. Remember, water does not make you bloated! Water actually keeps your body’s core temperature up, thus keeping that metabolism burning high. The lack of water consumption is actually what gives you that bloated look. When the body starts to panic when it’s not getting enough water, it holds on to more water in case it becomes a frequent thing. In addition, water keeps everything in proper running order. The body is 70% water, you know!

Now, as far as exercise goes…. There are many types of abdominal – oblique exercises you can perform to get some nice washboard abs. This can also happen when you use StrongBoard Balance, if you would add some challenge to your normal plank poses. Remember, any exercise performed on the SBB also requires a constant contraction in your core. Of course, doing normal floor crunches, bicycles, etc., are keys to defining those abdominal muscles; but what’s even more important here is HOW you perform those exercises. Remember the term, “slow and steady wins the race”? Slow and steady is more effective in this case. Yes, you can move quickly through the exercises but then, you tend to use momentum to make the exercise easier, rather than actually using your muscles. By doing that, you are only cheating yourself! Look at it this way – if you are going to take the time to perform those exercises, get the most out of that exercise as you possibly can.

Have fun and good luck on your quest for the perfect abs. Have fun. Be healthy. Stay balanced.

A few exercises that an be performed with StrongBoard Balance for great abs:

* Full Plank Pose
* Fore-Arm Plank Pose
* Squat Thrusts
* Reverse Wood Chops
* Forearm Side Bends
* Plank Kicks

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