Back Extension

Teaching points

• Lay with your stomach and chest in contact with the ball, with the toes on the floor
  
  
• Raise your chest up off the ball
  
  
• Slowly lower back down to the starting position

Variations and progressions

• To make the exercise easier, perform it with the knees bent on the floor

Muscles worked

• Erector Spinae
  
  
• Multifidus

Alternative exercises

• Dorsal raise
  
  
• Back extension machine

Related injuries

• Lower back pain