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wall squat with swiss ball - beginner Lower Body exercise
  • Lower Body
  • beginner

wall squat with swiss ball

stand with swiss ball between back and wall, squat down while maintaining ball contact, then return to start.

Starting position
standing
Joints
hip, knee, head
Muscles
quadriceps, gluteus maximus, gastrocnemius, hamstrings, soleus
Equipment
wall, swiss ball
Goal
postural correction, balance, stability
Type
isotonic concentric, resisted, isotonic eccentric

How it is done

Stand facing against the wall with feet apart, place a swiss ball between wall and trunk and rest your back on it, and cross arms over the chest. With maintaing the contact with ball slide down and bent your knee same as squat and return to starting position and repeat it.

Nothing here is a prescription. Your physiotherapist decides which of these are yours, and when.

The plan starts with an assessment.