Pilates Stretch Band Exercises: Side Leg

Video Transcript

"This side line leg exercise will work the quad as well as the hamstring. You want to take your band, and bring it around your foot covering your toes. Make it even, pull it in one hand, come into your sideline leg position. Again, the hips are stacked, the legs are stacked, give yourself as much tension as you feel would be a good workout. Engaging the abs, trying to keep the head in line with the spine, bend both knees, bring the band in between the knees, take a nice inhale, and bend that knee up even further, squeeze in the glutes engaging the entire leg and exhale, push that leg down, keeping the squeeze on the glutes and every muscle, including your abdominal muscles; inhale, slow and controlled, bring that leg in, keeping the squeeze on the glutes and the back of the leg, exhale push down; Inhale come up, exhale push down; inhale up, focusing on the abs, working the arms that's holding the band as well as the leg, keeping every muscle in that leg tense, like you're going through mud; in both directions."