Ball Leg Curl

Legs · Other

How to do it

Lie on your back on the floor with your heels on an exercise ball and your legs straight. Lift your hips until shoulders, hips and heels are in line and **hold them there**. From that position, bend your knees rolling the ball towards your glutes, hold a second and extend slowly without letting the hips drop. It is two jobs at once: a held hip extension and a knee curl. You feel the hamstring top to bottom. The classic mistake is letting the hips sink as you extend, which is exactly when it gets easy and stops working.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

Also works: Calves, Glutes

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