Video: Pilates: Jane Fonda Series

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When performing the Pilates Jane Fonda series, tighten the abdominal muscles and pull the shoulder blades back. Perform this powerful Pilates exercise with tips from a professional Pilates instructor in this free fitness video.

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This intermediate Pilates exercise is called the Jane Fonda series. We're going old school, so let's go back to the eighties. Come on down, place your hands directly underneath your shoulders. Extend one leg out, point your toes, and lift your leg up and lower down. Now, as you're performing this exercise, you want to keep your abs in tight, pull your shoulder blades back and down. So this is just up, down with this leg, and you can hold your leg up, flex your foot and do tiny little pulses, and then you can move on by keeping your leg out, draw the heel in and extend out. Draw in and extend out. Another move that you can do in this position is to push your heel up towards the ceiling, lower the knee down to the other knee, and push up. So you can perform anywhere between eight to ten reps on each little exercise, so up down, little pulses, bend the knee, and then push the heel up towards the ceiling. Eight to ten times on each side, and that is your Jane Fonda series.

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Pilates: Jane Fonda Series

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