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diagonal medicine ball lift with squat and trunk rotation - beginner Upper Body exercise
  • Upper Body
  • beginner

diagonal medicine ball lift with squat and trunk rotation

squat down with trunk rotation to lift medicine ball, then stand upright holding ball at chest level

Starting position
standing
Joints
hip, knee, shoulder, lumbar spine, thoracic spine
Muscles
quadriceps, gluteus maximus, deltoid, obliques, erector spinae
Equipment
medicine ball
Goal
postural correction, coordination, mobility
Type
isotonic concentric, resisted

How it is done

Stand with feet apart beside a medicine ball. Lift the ball by squatting down and rotating the trunk. Straighten up holding ball in front close tp chest.

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

The plan starts with an assessment.