Three Stability Ball Exercises for Hamstrings

All right, so today we’re going to go over three quick exercises for hamstring and glute activation. We’re going to be doing a hamstring curl and a glute bridge and then we’re going to combine the two to incorporate a little bit more core stability as well. So, starting, out, what you’ll need is a stability ball. We’ll do the hamstring curl. So you’ll lay on back, hands flat off to your side. And then using your heels you’ll push down and back, pulling that stability ball towards you, feeling that tension developing in the hamstring. And then coming back nice and slow, so you exhale and then inhale just like so. And then from here, we’re going to go right into the glute bridge, so what you’ll do is squeeze the butt muscles together. You’ll just pick your hips straight up into the air nice and high, nice and strong. Exhale on the way up, inhale on the way down. And then to combine the two, first we’re going to go into that hamstring curl, come on back, nice and controlled movement. And then when we get the feet flat on the ball, squeeze those hips straight up into the air. Same thing, control the legs going out. So you start that hamstring curl coming in nice and slow and controlled. Push the hips straight up into the air, squeezing the glutes together. And then roll it on out nice and slow, relaxed. And that’s how you get glute activation.