Running Pilates Reformer Exercise

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is April Plank with Yoga Etc. Studios on behalf of Expert Village. In this clip we will be working with running on the pilates reformer. So we are going to start off and Helen is with me today and she is going to demonstrate this with us. So have her bring her feet down to the balls, her feet are on the foot bar and we will start with her knees together and her thighs together and arm lasting long on the carriage. With an inhale, she will take the carriage all the way out extending through the legs. Very important that she doesn't hyper extend or lock the knees so she will keep those legs glued together. When she is ready, she is going to exhale, drop the right heel and lift the left heel and then she will switch to the other side. So with every exhale she will be pushing one heel down and lifting one heel up getting that full extension so one heel goes as low as it can as the other heel is going as high as it can. As you can see she is moving very slowly and as she is moving that her pelvis is staying neutral, that she is engaging those abdominals. This is a really great exercise to strengthen the legs but it is also a good exercise to strengthen that entire power house of the abdominals. We will do this 4 more times. Nice job and three, just two more really strong ones to finish using that nice pilates breath inhaling both heels up to finish bending the knees back into the carriage. Great work and that was running on the pilates reformer. "