How to Do a Corkscrew Pilates Exercise

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to be teaching you "Corkscrew 1". And the goal of this exercise is abdominal strength, length through your legs and strength and flexibility through that length. And anchoring the pelvis down into the mat as you move your legs. Bring your knees into your chest. Feet straight to the ceiling, ninety degrees from the hips. Heels in Pilates Stance, anchor those hands, hips, shoulders and head. Lengthen up the back of the neck. Now to execute this exercise, keeping those legs firmly pressing into the centerline. Bring them over towards your left shoulder, down and around, keeping them pressing into the center. Over to the right shoulder and nail that landing. Its inhale around to the half, exhale, pull it in, keeping the hips still. We want to go to the right now. So it?s over to the right, down around, exhale, nail that landing at ninety. Over to the left, keep those legs still and in place. Stance, exhale, over to the right. Around and down; and pull that belly in. Great! Over to the other side, around and down, stabilizing those hips. One more. That?s all you got to do. Over, down around and exhale. Pull those legs in. Bring your knees into your chest, your feet to the floor. And that is how we do "Corkscrew1"."