Pilates Exercises: Roll Up

Video Transcript

"This beginner mat Pilates Exercise is called the Roll Up. We're really going to challenge that core. And we really want to think about anchoring the heels down. Now when you're performing Pilates Exercises, it's not so much about what you're moving, but what you're not moving, should be your focus. Come on down to the mat. Keep your feet about hip width apart. Extend your arms overhead and draw your shoulder blades back and down. Bare down in your abdominal muscles, navel to spine. Inhale as you lift your head and shoulders, then exhale as you peel up one vertebrae at a time. And then round your back into a C curve, look at your belly button. Now in this position you want to really brace this stretch as you inhale. And exhale, come on down in printing one vertebrae at a a time. The key here is to really think about squeezing your gluts, and that will to buy some time. Rolling up. If you find that you need some help, just grab the back of the legs, help yourself up through that sticking point and then coming on down nice and slow, squeeze those gluts. Make it nice and tight. And that is your beginner Roll Up."