About Lori Briggs
Lori Briggs, identified as the strength and conditioning coach and dryland specialist for the USA National Swimming Team, demonstrated the Swiss ball prone forearm rollout exercise in a September 2010 video. Briggs emphasized that body position is the most important aspect of the exercise, instructing viewers to place their forearms on top of the ball and maintain a "perfect plank position" with the head, shoulders, and tailbone in alignment. She advised starting with feet hip-width apart and progressing to feet together as core strength improves.
Briggs described the movement as rolling the ball gently from the elbow to the wrist while keeping the body rigid and drawing the abs in. She also suggested adding circular motions in both directions as proficiency increases, reminding participants to breathe throughout the exercise.
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Hi, I'm Lori Briggs with USA National Swimming Team. I am the strength and conditioning coach and dryland specialist, and today we're going to do an exercise called the Swiss ball prone rollout. When you take your Swiss ball and begin this exercise, the most important thing is going to be your body position. So I'd like to demonstrate before I actually do the exercises where you need to be placed on your Swiss ball. Forearms are going to be right on top of the Swiss ball. It doesn't matter if your hands are together or apart; it's more important the position of the forearms. Body is going to be placed in a perfect plank position where you're not caving in from your back and your thumb bar, as well as you're not lifting the derriere towards the ceiling. So you want to be in a perfect alignment while you're doing the exercise. Feet can be as wide as hips are apart to start out the exercise. As you become more proficient, feet will remain together because obviously core strength will be ready for that challenged position. So make sure before you start your exercise that your body is in the correct position. So here we go: forearms down on the ball. We'll start with our feet apart first. Alignment: head, shoulders, and tailbone are always in alignment. So out of alignment with your head would look like this perhaps, or chin to the chest. So throughout the exercise, we want to make sure that our head stays in alignment. You're going to roll that Swiss ball gently from your elbow to your wrist, full range, elbow to your wrist, while remaining that perfect plank position, drawing your abs in towards your back. Body is nice and rigid while you're doing the movement. As you become proficient with that, you may change and turn it into circles, clockwise and counterclockwise, again the whole time not losing your perfect position, and perhaps even a dime in motion, both directions, clockwise and counterclockwise. Feet together, abs tight, make sure you're breathing, inhaling and exhaling throughout, and relax.
