Medicine balls are terrific tools that can be utilized in nearly any workout (arms, legs, core, even extra resistance/balance tools during particular cardio moves) and for nearly every athlete. Today, I’m giving you a few medicine ball-assisted moves to try that will tone all areas of your core.

Grab a medicine ball—or a dumbbell will work for the first and third exercises—and join me for three waist whittling moves! Feel free to keep your arms on the floor near your lower back to support you, as a beginner, during the weighted reverse crunch (exercise #2). (And feel free to laugh at me when I allow the ball to slip out during this move…my Mom was giggling behind the camera and cracking me up! :) )

Do you have any favorite tools that you keep in your home exercise room or that you gravitate to at the gym?