Pilates with Alexis

Steering the wheel or around the world is a tricky one!

We are finding rotation from the pelvis and using the abdominals.

It’s easy to just use your arms and make a circle but then we are missing the whole exercise. Lower is steady, legs don’t come with.

Work with your instructor today to practice this one!

Maple bar.

Single arm.
Add rotation.

Repeat other side.

Let’s practice a half round back on the Cadillac or at your springboard.

You could teach this on the reformer as well.

Watch my alignment in the beginning…seated tall and then slouching.

Go slow. Move with your breath.

More lower body work standing.

One red spring.

Adding the ball as a prop.

Let’s keep working on the lower body standing. The pilates ball will help fire up your glutes!

Move slow.

Focus on balance and stability.

1 red spring
Repeat on other side.

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Lower body series at the springboard.

I taught this to a couple of my classes this week.

I have to adjust the tilt of my pelvis ( in the video I said forward but I meant backwards:)
to find my neutral. This also puts my into the glute and quads for the exercise which is where you want to be…not feeling it in your lumbar.

Lateral flexion at the springboard and maple bar on!

This is the next exercise at the springboard with the maple bar on clipped to 8.

Now you have three videos all with the same apparatus set to the same position.

For instructors it’s important to learn how to stay at a specific setting to get more time working out for your client or class.

Less set up, let down time.