Adding a balance challenge to your workouts forces your body to recruit more muscles than just the ones your targeting.  A perfect example is this exercise, which strengthens abdominals, spine extensors, chest, shoulders, triceps, buttocks, and all leg muscles as stabilizers.  It can also be easily done at home.

• Kneel on all fours with hands flat of floor just behind an Airex Balance Pad, wrists under shoulders and knees under hips.
• Extend legs one at a time behind you, balancing on balls of feet with legs close together.
• Contract abs; so body forms one straight line from head to heels.
• Maintain plank as you lift left hand and place it flat onto the pad, keeping shoulders over wrists, then lift right hand.
• Lift and return right hand to starting position, then left hand to complete 1 repetition.
• Continue to walk up-up, down-down, keeping abs tight and plank straight without moving block.
• Repeat, changing lead arm every 5 reps until you complete set.
• Work up to 3 sets of 15 repetitions while maintaining plank form.
   

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