Pilates Spine Twist

Video Transcript

"Spine twist is a rotational exercise and we start by bringing our arms in genie so this is not genie but fingers to elbows and the way the spine twist works is your chin pretty much stays in the center of the arms wherever we are twisting to. So the move looks like this. As you move keep the shoulders down so this is not such a hot spine twist, keeping the shoulders down, keeping the chin where it belongs, now to add to this we can go ahead and press down on one muscle and on one shoulder engaging the lats on that side and what you'll feel is that the spine twist will then begin to work in this upper back area which is hard to get to in many exercises so let's go ahead and try that. We're going to take a nice inhale in the center, abs are still engaged and exhale, push down on one shoulder and twist, two, three, inhale back to center and exhale, push down on that shoulder and twist, two, three and inhale back to center one more time, exhale twist, press and twist, two, three, inhale back to center and press and twist, two, three, inhale back to center."