Pilates Exercises: Roll Over

Video Transcript

"This exercise is called roll over and it is an excellent back stretch. It may take you a while to get all the way over. So go ahead and come down on to your back, starting here, bring the legs straight up. If you usually use something under your head to support it don't use it with this exercise. Take a nice inhale and take the legs an just fold them all the way over stretching out the back. Now notice how I haven't come up but I'm just folded and then we are going to open the legs and curl down one vertebra and a time trying to keep the thighs as close to the torso as possible. Now with the legs open wide we are going to take a nice inhale, exhale close the abdominals and bring the legs up and over and for an added stretch touch the toes down and push against the heels if you can, inhale here and then exhale curl down keeping the space between the torso and the thighs as little as possible, one vertebra at a time bringing the legs up."