Pilates Exercises: Corkscrew

Video Transcript

"This exercise is called cork screw and I'm going to give you several different versions from beginning to advanced so let's go ahead and start out flat on our back. If you usually have something underneath your head you won't need it for this exercise. Bring your legs up perpendicular to your body and it's okay to bring your feet together. You are going to take a nice inhale and lower the feet to one side and exhale use this side to bring the legs back up, then we are going to go in the other direction, inhale lower, and exhale up, inhale lower, exhale up. The most important thing is that you are stable in your torso so we are going to try some bigger circles which would be more advanced. Inhale lower and exhale up, inhale lower, all the way down and exhale up and from this position we are going to go even into bigger circles where we are going to inhale lower and exhale all the way up to the opposite shoulder, inhale, curl down and exhale, all the way up to the opposite shoulder and inhale lower."