Ready for Pilates

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In the Pilates studio

Lunges with your weight on an unstable base. This helps all the muscles and core engage from your balancing foot ankle and leg to your core and glutes and tum. However…on another level It has just been suggested to me by my hip surgeon that anyone like me who has had a hip re-surface surgery […]

Back in the Pilates Reformer studio One leg in table top, the other doing straight leg raises to the highest point that stretches the ham strings too

All the time keeping the hips stable, core engaged and spine in neutral-not flat to the reformer.

Studio reformer Pilates This seated “froggy plie” exercise is to help core stability, hip flexors, all leg muscles

The important bit is is to try and keep the back straight, tummy muscles engaged and the plie movements as smooth as possible. Its more difficult than it looks.