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]]>Lie flat on your back and keep your legs straight. Lift your legs slowly until they are at a 90-degree angle with your torso. Take a deep breath and exhale as you lift your legs, making sure to keep them together without allowing your body to move too much. Lower your legs back down, making sure to stop just before they touch the ground, and then begin lifting them again for your next rep. Throughout the workout, make sure to keep your back pressed to the floor so that you don’t put any strain on your lower back.
As you lift your legs while keeping your torso in place, you’ll notice that a lot of the work is put on your lower abs. If you do the exercise correctly, you’ll be able to develop your rectus abdominis, hip flexors, and obliques all through this one workout, thereby conditioning your entire core. Of course, you’ll also activate your inner thighs.
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]]>Stand in a squat stance and take the pilates ring between your open palms and straighten your arms in front of your chest. Squat down and squeeze the ring between your palms, feeling the resistance in your chest. This exercise works on your legs, glutes, shoulders, and chest muscles.
For this exercise, you can either put your ankles inside the ring or balance on the outside. Inside will work the outside of the thighs and outside you will be working your inner thighs. Lie on your side, using one arm on the floor for balance, and lift both legs up and down. You will also feel it in your waist.
Lie flat on your back with your knees bent and your feet on the floor, put the ring between your knees and squeeze it a little to keep it in place. Lift the glutes off the floor, vertebrae by vertebrae, squeeze the ring as you go up, and release as you go down. Make sure you are engaging the core throughout the entire movement.
This is a core finisher! Lie on your back with your legs straight in the air, put the ring between your ankles and lower your legs so you feel resistance in your core, but don’t curve your lower back. Lift your head, neck, and upper chest, and straighten your arms to the sides of your body. Pulsing the arms up and down in time to your breath, turning the palms upwards and downwards with the inhale and exhale. So five inhales and five exhales, 10 times and you have the pilates 100!
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]]>Lie flat on your back and keep your legs straight. Lift your legs slowly until they are at a 90-degree angle with your torso. Take a deep breath and exhale as you lift your legs, making sure to keep them together without allowing your body to move too much. Lower your legs back down, making sure to stop just before they touch the ground, and then begin lifting them again for your next rep. Throughout the workout, make sure to keep your back pressed to the floor so that you don’t put any strain on your lower back.
As you lift your legs while keeping your torso in place, you’ll notice that a lot of the work is put on your lower abs. If you do the exercise correctly, you’ll be able to develop your rectus abdominis, hip flexors, and obliques all through this one workout, thereby conditioning your entire core. Of course, you’ll also activate your inner thighs.
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]]>The post Have You Tried the Pilates Ring Workout? appeared first on yourdailysportfix.com.
]]>Stand in a squat stance and take the pilates ring between your open palms and straighten your arms in front of your chest. Squat down and squeeze the ring between your palms, feeling the resistance in your chest. This exercise works on your legs, glutes, shoulders, and chest muscles.
For this exercise, you can either put your ankles inside the ring or balance on the outside. Inside will work the outside of the thighs and outside you will be working your inner thighs. Lie on your side, using one arm on the floor for balance, and lift both legs up and down. You will also feel it in your waist.
Lie flat on your back with your knees bent and your feet on the floor, put the ring between your knees and squeeze it a little to keep it in place. Lift the glutes off the floor, vertebrae by vertebrae, squeeze the ring as you go up, and release as you go down. Make sure you are engaging the core throughout the entire movement.
This is a core finisher! Lie on your back with your legs straight in the air, put the ring between your ankles and lower your legs so you feel resistance in your core, but don’t curve your lower back. Lift your head, neck, and upper chest, and straighten your arms to the sides of your body. Pulsing the arms up and down in time to your breath, turning the palms upwards and downwards with the inhale and exhale. So five inhales and five exhales, 10 times and you have the pilates 100!
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