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Background: Abdominal muscle stabilization is novel technique and benefits of abdominal muscle stabilization become more frequently accepted and employed in therapeutic setting to maintain proper posture and prevention of abnormal posture in normal and affected population. Since abdominal muscle stabilization is given to normal population, it is better to understand the physiological changes occurring in cardiovascular system. This study was aimed to find out the difference in acute cardiovascular response of conventional and Swiss ball abdominal stabilization exercises in normal individuals. Materials and Methodology: In present study 50 participants were selected by normal BMI sampling method and screened as per inclusion criteria. The resting level systolic, diastolic blood pressure and heart rate were recorded. Then all participants performed Conventional Abdominal Stabilization Exercises for period of 3 minutes and post exercises values of systolic diastolic blood pressure and heart rate were recorded. It was followed by a 10 minutes rest period and again pre exercise data were taken. Then abdominal stabilization exercises was performed on Swiss ball by all participants and post exercise cardiovascular parameters were recorded. The values were tabulated on master chart and subjected to statistical analysis. Results: Statistically the Swiss ball abdominal stabilization exercise is not having significant effect on cardiovascular response (p<0.05) as compared to the conventional abdominal stabilization exercise in normal individual. But clinically the Swiss ball abdominal stabilization exercise is having significant effect on cardiovascular response as compared to the conventional abdominal stabilization exercise in normal individual. Conclusion: The current study after analyzing statistically strongly emphasizes that the Swiss ball abdominal stabilization exercises has effect on acute cardiovascular response than compared to the conventional abdominal stabilization exercises of healthy individual clinically but not significantly for longer duration.