Video: Pilates All Fours Exercise Setup

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Pilates exercises on all fours requires proper spine, neck and core alignment. Set up for Pilates exercises on all fours with tips from a fitness trainer in this free exercise video.

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All right. We're going to learn how to set up your Pilates core from all fours. And, seriously, once you have heard how to set this up, you will never forget. All right? We start out with a straight spine. Now you usually want to be length in the spine from all fours. And I say to engage your core or your glutes. What happens is we end up rounding the spine. We don't want to round the spine. We want the spine long, from the crown of the head all the way through the tailbone. So what I want you to do is take your imaginary walnut and tuck it way back there, way out of sight. All right? Now you've got to crack the walnut, and you've got to crack it with the cheeks. Okay? Crack the walnut. Keep the back straight and crack the walnut. So that is how you get engaged. It goes like this. All right. You're going to inhale big. Exhale. The ribs go down. Now, squeezing the lower part of the glutes; which if I told you that, you wouldn't remember as much as cracking the walnut. So crack your walnut. So you squeeze through the glutes, long back, arms are straight. Your hands are right down under your shoulders. Your knees are hip-width apart. The knees are right under the hips. All right. So long back, walnut position. You got that. Stay there for all your movements. That's how you set up your core from all fours.

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Pilates All Fours Exercise Setup

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