Video: Pilates for Slimming the Waist

Pilates for Slimming the Waist

Pilates for slimming the waist requires you to access the transverses abdominal muscle. Learn about using Pilates for slimming the waist with help from a fully certified STOTT Pilates instructor in this free video clip.

Video Transcript

Hi, I'm Jennifer Raby, STOTT certified master Pilates instructor at Body Kinetics, Mill Valley, California. I'm going to show you how the following exercises in Pilates can help slim the waist. The most important thing to remember when performing these exercises is to access the transverses abdominal muscle. To find that muscle place your hands on your lower abs, take an inhale. And on the exhale feel your abdominals moving away from your hands towards your spine. I'm going to take this dowel and place it over my head. And here we go, inhale to prepare. On the exhale I'm going to access that transverses and I roll back into a nice flexed spine. Inhale here, exhale, rotating from the waist using my oblique muscles. And my transverses. I rotate, come back to center inhale and exhale to the other side. Come back to your start position. Inhale and exhale pulling that transverses muscle in like someone's cinching a belt tightly around your waist. I come up to my start position, inhale. The next exercise is called lean. Again, I'm thinking transverses as I sit as tall as I can, out of my pelvis in neutral. I take an inhale to rotate. And now I come out to a nice lean position. Exhale as I lift my opposite hip off the mat. I sit the hip back down, de-rotate and go to the other side. I turn keeping my pelvis square and I lift the hip off the mat working the muscles of the waist as I really focus on stabilizing with that transverses abdominal muscle. You can repeat those exercises three to five times remembering to breathe all the while while you do it. I'm Jennifer Raby and you can find me at jenraby.com.

Pilates for Slimming the Waist

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