Body Weight Pilates: Double Leg Stretch

Video Transcript

"How are we feeling out there? I hope it's good. So our next clip is the double leg stretch. Mark is going to lay all the way down for us. You're going to bend those knees into your chest to start and curl the head, neck, and shoulders up and take you hands onto your knees. You'll see us come into that position a lot, it's to get that core together. If you have problems doings this and your abs aren't strong yet, use your hands to help you pull up. You want to pull up enough so that you relax that neck. We do not want to work in our neck here or our shoulders. So you're going to press those shoulders down, again you're going to crease right at that breast line, crease all the way up. From here, then you can challenge your power house. From here, double leg stretch, keeping the lower back completely pressed into the floor. You're going to extend your legs 45 degrees and your arms are going to go by your head. You're going to hold this position, navel scoops in for three, for two, for one and then exhale, wrap your arms around and bend your knees in. Again, inhale, press, you want to get longer like somebody is pulling your ankles and pulling your wrists and then exhale, bend it all the way in. Good, again inhale, press, reach, longer and then exhale in. So this is a little bit harder just to get the technique. You can speed up the momentum of the exercise. So from here you're going to press out, and then exhale wrap and bend in, inhale press and reach, exhale and in, inhale press, and exhale in, last one inhale press and in. Draw the knees in; relax the neck and shoulders down. That was the double leg stretch. Next is the single leg stretch."