Pilates with Alexis

Let’s stay on the chair with the spit pedals!

Press up so you feel you are hovering in the air and then start to move just the lower body. You will need to adjust your handles to the height that works for you.

Be sure you dump into the shoulders!

Give it a try!

I’m excited to get to play around with a split pedal chair!

Here we’re gonna be working with the lower body play around with your spring settings. It’s gonna be different for each body that’s in front of you.

either way, whether the springs are heavier or lighter it’s going to be a challenge to try to move both legs at the same time when the pedals are split.

Let’s stay on the tower with the roll down bar on and work on finding some extension.

i’m a big fan of the roll down bar as it gives your body a really great cue to stay in alignment and especially in your abdominal.

it’s easy to let the arms take over but we don’t want to let that happen.

We’re gonna find extension on the way down and then flexion on the way back up after a couple times will reverse that flow.

make sure you check with your Instructor that this is safe to do in your body and then go ahead and give it a try.

I am back!

Different equipment, same principles.

Working with the Stott reformer / tower is a change from teaching on Balanced Body equipment.

The biggest difference I noticed right away is the springs. They definitely feel heavier on Stott.

I’m excited to be back to moving my body and also teaching others.

Be sure to follow for more tower flows, split pedal chair and more!

Let’s bridge!

Bridging on the reformer.

I would put heavy springs on to hold the carriage in place so you can focus on the movement of the bridges.

Lots of variations and levels for bridging but the foundation elements stay the same.

Move slow, with control and find your breath.

Quadruped work using the short box on the reformer.

If you’re on balanced body reformer, I would recommend one red spring if you’re looking to really fire up your abdominals go one blue.

If you were on Stott equipment, I would recommend one blue and if you really want to fire things up one white spring.

Be careful you don’t jump into the shoulders or the lower back. Those are the two things that I see happen the most when we’re in this position on the reformer.

Remember, it’s not about how many repetitions we do it it’s about quality over quantity.

Give it a try today and let me know how you like this flow!

❤️

Let’s keep using the box but turn it to short box.

Watch right away with my misalignments.

So important to train your eye.

It takes time and sometimes we notice it quicker on certain people than others.

Our job as instructors is to watch, and then help adjust.

Prone work on the long box!

Start practicing these with 1 red spring.

Move slow and if your lower back is tight or bothering you make sure to open your legs to hip distance.

For many of us prone work is our least favorite but it’s so important to add it our workouts.

We want to keep our posterior chain strong and healthy.