Pilates Exercises: Single Leg Stretch

Video Transcript

"In this next exercise we are going to be working your oblique. Let's go again and begin in table top position. Pulling the arms back tuck the chin and curl down making sure your head is supported, bring the legs up, extend one leg out and keep the other one bent. As you are doing this exercise we are going to be pulling one knee in and extend the opposite leg so it is good if you just allow your toe to just glide along the inside of the opposite leg. To begin with we are going to take one hand and put it on the inside of the knee and take the other hand and put it on the outside of the knee and that will guide our legs in. So inhale, nod the head, exhale flex the torso up, inhale, hold, exhale, change, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. The next version we can go ahead and just have our hands behind our head and we are going to add to it a rotational twist. The move looks like this one leg is extended, one leg is bent, inhale, tuck the chin and exhale flex the torso up. Now notice as I do the exercise that I am picking up a shoulder and I'm not moving my elbow so we are going to inhale, hold, exhale, change and twist, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale, and exhale."