Warming Up for Double Leg Lift Pilates Exercise

Video Transcript

"I will be teaching you the set up and the warm up for the "Double Leg Lower Lift". It is again part of the Abdominal Series of Five. It is entirely for strength of the abdominals and to hold the powerhouse steady, with the weight of the legs on the pelvis. To prepare for this exercise, bring both knees into your chest, flatten down through the arms. Really reach through those arms. Lengthen the legs, straight up towards the ceiling. Feet in Pilates Stance. Pilates Stance is that 'V'; finding the centerline. Reaching from the seat, all the way up through the heels with the legs straight. Energy out through the legs, and then down and into the pelvis. So its energy flowing two different ways. It?s really important in the Double Leg Lower Lift to get that energy flowing two different ways so that the legs don't hang as dead weight off the hips. To prepare, we're going to slowly inhale, lowering the legs. And exhale and just pull that back up. Opposition on this is important. So we're going to lengthen through the legs and pull down through the abdominals and the hips. Even when your here, the legs are going this way, but the hips are going down into the floor. And that?s how we prepare, bend your knees, for the "Double Leg Lower Lift"."