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Exercise Video: The Clam Series
Having a shapely tush is always in fashion and that is why the Clam Series of exercises is a perennial favorite. In this efficient, short series you will be working your upper outer thigh and your low glutes - I call this the panty line muscle group.
So lie on your side and get ready for the Clam!
Pilates Stretch: The Mermaid
The Mermaid is one of my favorite of all Pilates stretching series. It really stretches out the upper body in such an elegant fashion and is really great for opening up the chest.
Follow along and mirror the movement (do as I say, not as I do - just like Pilates mat class with the instructor facing the class).
Tone Your Love Handles: Exercise Video
This video is all about toning up your love handles. Yep — just in time for Valentine's Day. While you may not be able to pick and choose the body parts where you lose fat, you can spot tone an area.
Pilates Video: Saw Off Your Baby Toe
Looking for a way to work your abs and stretch your back at the same time!!! I love multitasking exercises like this one with one of the best names in the Pilates repertoire Saw off your baby toe.
Try it.
Pilates Video: Single Leg Stretch
Here is one of my favorite Pilates abdominal exercises. It is called the Single Leg Stretch and it is just lovely.
Fit's tip: Keep your deep abdominals engaged throughout the entire exercise by pulling your navel to your spine.
Back Off! Chest Expansion with a Theraband
Here's another Back OFF! video for you to check out and do. This is a classic Pilates exercise done with a theraband so hopefully you or your gym has one for you to use.
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Recession Proof Your Workout: Free Video Mat Classes From Ultimate Pilates
In tough financial times, we all start to trim the fat off our budgets. When the monetary trimming comes from your fitness life, be careful. Exercise helps relieve the stress that accompanies uncertain times.
Class Act: Cardio Tai Boxing
I'm big on fitness classes, but tend to stick with Pilates, yoga, or something slower-paced — usually afraid that I won't be able to keep up with a class that requires any dance technique. My exercise solution came in the form of Crunch's Cardio Tai Box class — a class that gets you moving without a required-knowledge of dance choreography. All you need to know?
IT IS THIGH TIME: Inner Thigh Work
Here is another IT IS THIGH TIME video. To slim down muscular thighs you need to strengthen the inner thigh after releasing your quads and IT band. This exercise series might remind you of Jane Fonda's work out videos from the 80's, but they've been staples of the Pilates mat repertoire for many decades.
Check Your Breath
Breathing is fundamental to every form of exercise I can think of; the first concept I teach new Pilates clients is how to breathe. I might know this intellectually, but Hannah my swim coach at Equinox decided my freestyle breathing needed an overhaul.
To prove her point, she even took a video of my form.
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