7th October: Flexibility
This Pilates daily fix is lovely for releasing those tight areas of the body with guidance for how to make positions work for you!
This Pilates daily fix is lovely for releasing those tight areas of the body with guidance for how to make positions work for you!
As we approach the end of our Yogalates series, today we will focus on movements that tone and stretch the front and back body simultaneously, finishing with a quick Pilates core blast!
Lisa starts with gentle twists laying down, then continues with spine twists in different positions.
This Pilates daily fix starts with shoulder mobility, then combines spinal movement with shoulder work. As always the breath helps us flow.
Lisa will warm up your glutes in a bridge position, then move to back extension work and finally finishing with glutes again.
Today’s Pilates daily fix starts with some dynamic stretches before moving into exercises for building hip strength then a cool down.
A core strengthening Pilates daily fix starting with some basics and building up to the roll-up.
This Pilates daily fix starts on all fours working on neutral alignment with extra challenges, before moving onto balance in half kneeling position.
Today’s flexibility session with Christine covers all of the body’s key areas and will leave you feeling well stretched and relaxed.
In today’s class, we will focus on mobilising and strengthening the shoulders and scapulas. We will also take some lovely stretches for opening the chest and shoulders, all incorporated into this flow sequence.
Today Christine brings a new twist to our traditional shoulder bridge exercise. Enjoy this lovely short but effective session to increase spinal mobility and reduce back ache.
Improve your shoulder stabilisation today with Christine. She uses the resistance band to accelerate results.
Start today’s session in the box position to mobilise your spine, before coming in to Prone position to practice back extension and glute strength exercises.
Today’s session with Christine will help you to increase strength, and improve flexibility, around the hip area.
Warm up your core today with a 60 second hoover plank, before moving into supine to strengthen your abdominals. Christine will challenge you whilst giving options for all levels.
Improve your alignment and balance today with Christine. This session is particularly helpful to those with kyphotic posture – those that are challenged with an excessive curve of their thoracic spine and rounded shoulders.
In this Pilates daily fix we begin increasing our flexibility by stretching the shoulders and the front of our thighs. Next, we try to stretch the back of our thighs.
As we progress through our Yoga practice, you will recognise lots of movements and flows from previous weeks. Expect plank variations, bursts of Pilates, and of course a good stretch too!
Working into the obliques today we work the sides of the body. Towards the end of this Pilates daily fix we bring our attention to the spine.
This is quite a challenging Pilates daily fix. We begin with an intensive compression stretch of the shoulders. Keeping the intensity going we turn to the spine and try some plank moves.
Stretching our spine to begin we then work on all 4’s and on our front to fire up the glutes. Feel the burn with Gillian today!
In this Pilates daily fix we focus on strengthening the hips. Adding a bit of rotation and stretch towards the end.
Gillian starts with some variations on the teaser and roll backs. Then continues to work the deeper transverse abdominus with bracing type movements.
Working with our feet in different positions, we find alignment. Then we challenge our balance while standing on one leg.