There are plenty of ways to isolate your stomach muscles without performing crunches! In fact- doing exercises like these call on your complete core musculature including muscles that surround your spine – helping you not only strengthen and flatten, but stabilize as well. Hence the name “stability ball”.

• Plank on the Ball:

If you’re a newbie to plank on a ball, you may want to try this one about a 1/2 inch from the wall so that you can use the wall as support- should you need to. Place both hands on your ball. Slowly move your right and then your left foot behind you so that your legs are straight and your butt is not lifted in the air. Just like plank, you want to form a straight line from your heels to your head. Hold position. Try staying there for 15 seconds and repeating the exercise 8 times. Work your way up to 30 seconds and then a minute. If you can swing 1 minute, perform the exercise 3 times.

• Mountain Climbers on the Ball

Now that you’ve got plank down, let’s throw in a little challenge :- ) From a Plank position, bring your right knee as high into your chest as you can. Straighten it back to plank and then repeat with your left knee. Take your time with this one, there is no rush! Try performing 10 repetitions on each side.

Tip: Tightening and activating your core for both these exercises is what’s going to keep that ball from rolling away from you!

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