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Summary: Learn how to work your obliques and trim your tummy in this free how-to video on exercise ball fitness and workouts. Burn fat and build muscle at home!

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Working Your Obliques Using an Exercise Ball

Hey, in this segment we're going to head on back over to abdominals and really focus on our obliques this time. You can move anywhere around this ball and get a different kind of workout every time you come from any angle. So this way we're going to lean in onto our balance ball like this. Push your hip in, use this leg as a stabilizer, this leg goes out. Now this leg is not going to move, it's just going to stay here. Again we want a soft knee, don't lock this knee all the way out. Just make sure that all the focal point is through the muscles here. This arm is going to be the stabilizer on our ball and this arm is going to come behind our head. We're just going to simply reach over the side of the ball and crunch all the way in. Now you should feel a nice crunch all the way in here, almost into your glute. Pull back down and crunch all the way back in. Now it's really important that when you do do this crunch that you actually feel that squeeze before you go back down. Because if we're just using this, we're going to get momentum off the balance of the ball and you're actually not doing any work. So as we do it, we want to come down. Do a nice squeeze to come back up and come all the way back down. Now you can adjust this leg to wherever you're comfortable doing so, but you're still going to get a great workout in that oblique muscle as far as stabilizing as well as keeping this core tight the entire time.

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