This archive report was first published on 4 September 2019.
Partner Up for a Killer Abs Workout with Medicine Ball Throws ¶
Published on September 4, 2019, fitness experts Don Saladino and Ebenezer Samuel teamed up to share ultra-effective partner workouts that will make your training time much more collaborative.
Saladino, coach to Ryan Reynolds and Sebastian Stan, and creator of the MH Superhero Shred program, has joined forces with Samuel, Men's Health fitness director, to bring you the hollow hold medicine ball pass.
This exercise will hone your balance, core strength, and coordination, but you won't be able to pull it off without both partners giving their all for the whole period.
"Make your partner work on both throw variations," advises Samuel. "During the single-arm cross-body hollow body throws, you get to introduce unique anti-rotation as you catch a ball with one arm while maintaining the hollow hold, then throw it across your body. It's your partner's job to make you become Odell Beckham, Jr., really forcing you to extend in that hollow body to make the catch. That extension and the subsequent throw produce unique core, oblique, and serratus action."
"On the double-arm throw, you want to catch and extend far back, once again forcing your core to work in anti-extension fashion in the hollow body," says Samuel. "Then throw the ball from that overhead position; don't let this become a chest pass, because then you're not going to use your abs as much."
Take on the hollow hold medicine ball pass series for 3 sets of 10 reps of each side and style to challenge your abs.
