Audio from the Stability Ball Lateral Roll Video
Next, on to the lateral roll.
The lateral roll requires a lot of those small little muscles that you probably didn’t even know existed. It’s quite a tough one and requires quite a bit of control, It’s well worth your effort. Here we go.
So let’s start by sitting on the ball, roll forward, you and your arms out in a line. So if you imagine you got a pole running across your body, you’re going to be in a nice straight line here. Feet nice and wide, hips up high, and the gluts nice and tight. From here, you’re just going to move laterally, take the ball out just over the shoulder, and then we transfer and go the other way. Come back, keep the hips up nice and high, and there we go. That’s the lateral roll. The further out we go, the more difficult the exercise. So if you’re just beginning this exercise, just get used to rolling gradually from side to side, and as you get more proficient at the exercise, see how far down the arm you can take the ball. It’s a tough one.