Swiss ball 3 - bridge

I'm not a huge fan of using a Swiss ball as a chair, but I'm a huge fan of using them for exercise.

In this video, my hamstrings got a heck of a workout - it definitely wasn't this tough before lockdown!

When doing a bridge, if you use your whole foot and press down through your toes (especially your big toe), you'll get your calf muscles involved, as well as your glutes and hamstrings, which is great when it comes to teaching your brain how to get the posterior chain muscle groups to fire harmoniously - quite important when it comes to walking, running and jumping!

In this video I show you how to do a bridge and a hamstring curl... but if you use your imagination, you can do so much more in this position! Move the ball in circles rather than back and forth, thrust your hips up and down, hold the bridge position and lift alternate legs, do single leg hamstring curls... it doesn't take much to exhaust even the most trained athlete (which right now I am most definitely not... I swear I will get better at this again in the next few months!)

This ball is an anti-burst Swiss ball made by 66Fit. It's 65cm, which is about the right height for me at (nearly!) 5'6". If you're over 6 feet tall, you'll want a larger ball (75cm) or if you're 5 feet tall or smaller, you'll probably need to drop down to 55cm.

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