You're either gonna love or hate the warm up ... we start off with big challenges - mobility, agility, coordination and cardiovascular. For that reason I recommend using medium dumbbells throughout this timed workout. Sweat your way through five circuits using muscles memory from phases 1-3. Then we finish it off with feel-good flexibility.
Circuit #1
Plank Row & Rotation
Hollow Body Hold & Chest Press
Power Toe Taps
Circuit #2
Triceps Lift to Twist Curl
Single Sided Row to Clean
Power H Plank Jacks
Circuit #3
Weighted Helicopter
Weighted Burpee
Power Tosses to Toe Taps
Circuit #4
Ab Runner
Triceps Extension
Power Tosses to Climbers
Circuit #5
Ab Anchor to Lat Pull
Hyperextension
Power Plank Touches to Tilts
Equipment Needed: medium dumbbells and weighted medicine ball.
Building on the classic mat work from Basic Mat Pilates with an emphasis on equal parts strength and equal parts stretch. We introduce Pilates exercises like the c-curve and stick. These specific cues and progressions allow the body to gain flexibility, strength and balance. This basic mat series...
In this Pilates workout we fire up the posterior chain (glutes and back) for the first 8 minutes, followed by a plank series, then all abs and finishing with a feel-good stretch. We use a hand towel to weave mobility in each move.
Your body is in for a treat! We move through flexibility patterns using the core to stabilize the movement. For the first 10 minutes we work core & mobility in standing positions. Then we take it to the mat for advanced Pilates core work and flexibility.
This is an advanced Pilates workout....
