Exercise ball prone leg raise
Lower back Stability ball
How to do it
- 1Lie face‑down on a mat with your legs extended and the toes resting on the stability ball.
- 2Place your hands on the floor shoulder‑width apart and brace your core.
- 3Keeping the legs straight, lift them slowly off the floor, using your lower back and glutes to raise them as high as possible.
- 4Pause briefly at the top, then lower the legs under control back to the start position.
- 5Repeat the desired number of reps.
More lower back exercises
- Standing pelvic tiltBodyweight
- SphinxBodyweight
- Lower back curlBodyweight
- Back extension on exercise ballStability ball
- Hyperextension (on bench)Bodyweight
- Exercise ball back extension with hands behind headStability ball
- Exercise ball back extension with rotationStability ball
- Weighted hyperextension (on stability ball)Weighted
See it moving
In the app every exercise comes with its animation and the muscle marked on the body, with the set timer and the rests counted.
See NiudThis page is for information and doesn’t replace a professional. If you have an injury or a medical condition, ask first. Data from the open catalogue hasaneyldrm/exercises-dataset, MIT licence.

