Video: Pilates: Heel Beats With Pointed Toes

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In Pilates, keep the legs straight when performing heel beats with pointed toes. Learn more about this exercise and Pilates from a professional Pilates instructor in this free fitness video.

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Alright now we're going to do a heel beat with a pointed toe. Don't get confused between the flat and the pointed toe. Flat foot flex at the flat, pointed toe. It's the same thing as we did with the heel beats this time with a pointed toe. And think of kind of like a yin yang sign or if your toes where on a steering wheel and you are driving the car with a steering wheel. Sometimes these pictures kind of help to make sense in your head. Always engage before this movement. Inhale, exhale now bring the legs up one at a time. You're going to have a turnout and the legs need to stay straight. You're going to cross one foot slightly in front of the other and come back out and cross. So you can kind of get the image of a yin yang where the toes are, or if those toes where on a steering wheel. Switching back and forth, switch and switch. That's the movement but you need to put a little bit on of zest into it. Staying engaged, one, two, three, four, five, six and so on. What I see often is the legs, we want to get those toes crossed we do this. Don't do that ok it makes me crazy. Those legs like ginsu's bam, bam, bam, bam make it work alright. Those are your heel beats with a pointed toe.

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Pilates: Heel Beats With Pointed Toes

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