Medicine ball side crunches

The primary muscles targeted by medicine ball sit-ups are your abdominal muscles . When practiced with proper form, you activate your lower body as well, working your glutes and hamstrings.24 Şub 2022

In this drill, a medicine ball is thrown against or dropped onto a partner’s stomach. This medicine ball routine is used to strengthen and condition a boxer’s stomach muscles in order to better withstand an opponent’s punches .

A study by researchers at the Department of Kinesiology at Occidental College in Los Angeles says yes. The study found that crunches performed on a stability ball (a.k.a. fitness ball or Balance Ball) boosted activation, or flexing, of abdominal muscles by 24 to 38 percent over crunches done without a ball .