Before we jump to the workout let’s lay out our plan for the next 3 weeks. After all, making plans and setting realistic goals is the most important step to success.
Pilates Video
Pilates Video: Connect to the Core
This short Pilates workout is designed to help you connect to the deep core musculature. This connection is the cornerstone of a successful practice and a healthy injury-free body. No matter what your fitness level is, take 15 minutes to tap deeper into your core and find the mindful body-brain connection that will transform your practice and your body. This 15-minute Pilates workout will teach you to
- engage all of your core muscles (and not just your abs),
- do head floats (ab curls) without strain in your neck and shoulders,
- strengthen your lower back muscles and protect yourself from chronic lower back pain;
- use your core to correct muscular imbalances on both sides of your body.
A Paralympian takes Pilates to Sochi
Sometimes it’s hard to get motivated to work out even if your workout is a much-loved Pilates session. For some people working out is a motivation for life because it gives them opportunities to experience life fully. That is definitely the case for Stephani Victor who lost her legs in a car accident. However, she … Read more
Pilates for Abs in just 5 Minutes with Robin Long
What is the best thing about a Pilates workout?
It’s the time when you get to be yourself and focus on yourself.
In a modern world setting time aside to do something nice for yourself is often considered a luxury but it’s a vital luxury that we can all afford.
Our contributor Robin Long had a wonderful idea to make sure that we don’t have any excuses not to do Pilates. She has started 28 Days of Pilates. Every day (for 28 days straight) she posts a new 5-minute Pilates workout to let us enjoy a free luxury (two words that usually don’t stand side by side) of the vital “me” time.
Let’s kick it off with 5 minutes of Pilates Abs. And don’t forget to join Robin on her blog (click here) as she will take you on a wonderful journey to a balanced body through her videos and tips.
Daily Pilates Mat Workout in 20 with Andrea Maida
Are you having a love affair with your body?
Here is a little present that you can give your body to tell it “I Love you!”
Get your mat out and enjoy 20 minutes of pure classical Pilates with Andrea Maida.
Andrea is an inspirational Pilates teacher who lives and breathes classical Pilates. Her teaching style is fresh, energizing and always awesome. Actually, that’s what she promises this workout will do to you.
Make you awesome…
We’ll take some of that 🙂