Pregnancy Abdominal Exercises – Stability Ball
About Prenatal Stability Ball Exercise Videos
Recommended abdominal exercises for pregnant women. These exercises utilize a stability ball.
Recommended abdominal exercises for pregnant women. These exercises utilize a stability ball.
Today we’re going to be talking about abdominal work. There’s a lot of misinformation and myths about abdominal work during pregnancy. It’s actually one of the most important things you can do when exercising when pregnant. There’s some ways to make it safer and more comfortable.
Today we’re going to be talking about abdominal work using the stability ball. It’s helpful because when you’re pregnant, you usually don’t want to be lying on your back. I’m sure your doctor has told you that. Being on the stability ball is gonna get you up so you can do a couple more reps than you would if you work just laying down and then sitting up in between each one.
We’ll take you over here. Here’s Maggie on the ball. So what I’m gonna have her do is slowly walk your feet out in front of you. If you feel tipsy on the ball you want to take your feet out wide apart. That’ll make you feel more stable. So if you see Maggie here, what she’s got she’s got her hips lifted up. That’s exactly what we want. She’s got her ankles right underneath her knees. Walk your feet out so I’ll show them how that’s wrong. That is not what you want to do. You want to really walk your feet in nice and tight right underneath your knees. Perfect. She’s getting a good glute workout here keeping her hips up. She’s gonna bring her hands exactly right behind your head and you’re gonna exhale and just lift your shoulder blades up. Perfect. And coming back down. You want to exhale, come up. Good, and inhale down. Perfect.
One of the things that a lot of people do that’s incorrect is they’ll usually have the middle of their back on the ball. If you see here, this is Maggie’s upper back on the ball, which is exactly what we want. Take two more here. Exhale up, inhale down. And one more. Big exhale up. Good.
A way to make this harder is to add some arm work into it. You’ll bring your hands up overhead, straight arms. You’re gonna exhale, bring your fingertips up through your knees. And then inhale, scoop your arms back and around. Perfect. If you see her glutes are staying lifted, hips are up. Taking it again, here exhale up. Inhale back. Perfect. Take two more here. Good good lift, exhale up. Inhale back, and once more big exhale up. Inhale back, and then you’ll slowly walk yourself back up to sitting position here. You want to take these nice and slow. That can actually be sort of the hardest part of the whole exercise, walking yourself up. So you want to take that nice and slow. You good? Yeah, okay.
If you have any more questions about abdominal work during pregnancy, you can find out answers at ohbabyfitness.com.
Recommended abdominal exercises for pregnant women. These exercises utilize a stability ball.
Today we’re going to be talking about abdominal work. There’s a lot of misinformation and myths about abdominal work during pregnancy. It’s actually one of the most important things you can do when exercising when pregnant. There’s some ways to make it safer and more comfortable.
Today we’re going to be talking about abdominal work using the stability ball. It’s helpful because when you’re pregnant, you usually don’t want to be lying on your back. I’m sure your doctor has told you that. Being on the stability ball is gonna get you up so you can do a couple more reps than you would if you work just laying down and then sitting up in between each one.
We’ll take you over here. Here’s Maggie on the ball. So what I’m gonna have her do is slowly walk your feet out in front of you. If you feel tipsy on the ball you want to take your feet out wide apart. That’ll make you feel more stable. So if you see Maggie here, what she’s got she’s got her hips lifted up. That’s exactly what we want. She’s got her ankles right underneath her knees. Walk your feet out so I’ll show them how that’s wrong. That is not what you want to do. You want to really walk your feet in nice and tight right underneath your knees. Perfect. She’s getting a good glute workout here keeping her hips up. She’s gonna bring her hands exactly right behind your head and you’re gonna exhale and just lift your shoulder blades up. Perfect. And coming back down. You want to exhale, come up. Good, and inhale down. Perfect.
One of the things that a lot of people do that’s incorrect is they’ll usually have the middle of their back on the ball. If you see here, this is Maggie’s upper back on the ball, which is exactly what we want. Take two more here. Exhale up, inhale down. And one more. Big exhale up. Good.
A way to make this harder is to add some arm work into it. You’ll bring your hands up overhead, straight arms. You’re gonna exhale, bring your fingertips up through your knees. And then inhale, scoop your arms back and around. Perfect. If you see her glutes are staying lifted, hips are up. Taking it again, here exhale up. Inhale back. Perfect. Take two more here. Good good lift, exhale up. Inhale back, and once more big exhale up. Inhale back, and then you’ll slowly walk yourself back up to sitting position here. You want to take these nice and slow. That can actually be sort of the hardest part of the whole exercise, walking yourself up. So you want to take that nice and slow. You good? Yeah, okay.
If you have any more questions about abdominal work during pregnancy, you can find out answers at ohbabyfitness.com.
