How to Do a Leg Lift in a Pilates Workout

Video Transcript

"Now we have Laura back on the barrel. We're going to do leg lift series. She's on her stomach. For this, we want to really make sure that our shoulders our stabilized. Flat back, our head is in line with our spine, and our stomach is completely engaged. Although we are on the barrel, we want to make sure we're engaged because we'll show a bad example. If we allow the stomach to go, then we're going to really hurt the lower back. We want to keep that engagement. From here, we're going to use the glute hamstrings quad. We're going to do lower and lift to start. We're going lift on an exhale and lower back to parallel. Lifting, good. We're squeezing the glutes like crazy. Good. 4, 3, 2, and 1. Great. Now we're going to go into circles. We're going to circle around, inhale, exhale bringing it together. We're using a little bit of inner thighs here still focusing on the glutes. As we bring it together, keep the shoulders relaxed, head in line. We're going to reverse those circles. 3, 2, 1. From here, we're going to go into beat. We're going to do heels together and then parallel, heels together and parallel. Squeezing the inner thigh, squeezing the glutes. Great. From there, I'm going to have you relax and we're going to roll off the back stretching out and coming over to the side. We're going to sign off. For more information, please visit naturalpilates.com and feel free to stop by. Thank you."