Our Top 8 Stability Ball Exercises

Standing Side-Splits with a Ball

This yoga-inspired move gives obliques a serious stretch. You can certainly do this exercise without the ball, but it offers a bit of leverage and additional support. And you deserve a treat.

Do it:

• Stand with feet together about a foot behind a stability ball.
• Bend from the hips, placing hands on ball.
• Keeping torso extended and abs and glutes tight, raise left leg behind you until it's parallel to the floor.
• Keep your foot flexed and your inner thigh facing the floor.
• Rotate your torso to the left and extend left arm overhead.
• Turn head to gaze at left hand.
• Hold for 3 counts.
• Lower and return to starting position.
• Repeat on opposite leg.

Try the standing side-splits with a ball