#marchmatness

🤸🏻‍♀️March Matness: Day 8️⃣- Spine stretch No fancy choreo and using a theraband to focus on core control. This exercise is deceivingly difficult⚠️ #spinestretch #spinestretchforward Tight back/hamstrings? Try it sitting in a chair. @marchmatness @benjamindegenhardt Tap for 🎶 “Noodle Free Soup” by @thegnarlu. Double tap for 💟 Happy March❣️ #marchmatness #marchmatness2018 #matpilates #marchmatnessday8 #relpilates #pilates #pilateslovers #pilatesteacher #pilatestrainer #pilatespro #iteachpilates #fitness #wellness #corestrength #pilatesworks #kaleidoscope #kaleidoscopepilates #pilatestrip #brooklynpilates #pilatesexercises #fullbodyworkout #pilatesart #ilovepilates #moveyourbody #noodlefreesoupsong (at Loom Pilates Studio)

📌O exercício THE HUNDRED, é excelente para aquecer, pois ativa a circulação sanguínea e também para acionamento de PowerHouse. 📌Mas alunos iniciantes ou com dificuldade de execução é necessário a construção do movimento através de movimentos mais simples. 📌Abaixo uma sequência de adaptação. #marchmatness #marchmatness2022 #marchmatness22 https://www.instagram.com/p/CaxHg5BORVT/?utm_medium=tumblr

📌O exercício THE HUNDRED, é excelente para aquecer, pois ativa a circulação sanguínea e também para acionamento de PowerHouse. 📌Mas alunos iniciantes ou com dificuldade de execução é necessário a construção do movimento através de movimentos mais simples. 📌Abaixo uma sequência de adaptação. #marchmatness #marchmatness2022 #marchmatness22 (em Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/Caw7k5GuaBw/?utm_medium=tumblr

#MarchMATness2021 Day 7- #doublelegstretch⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Want to know something funny? Before I came to America, I received a phone call on a pay phone (before internet and cell phones). My English was not very good, so you can imagine where this story goes…I was told that I have a job offer from the United States from ‘Harvard Ballet!’ I was so excited! I always watched American TV shows, and saw the university on television, so I thought I was moving to a college town and that I would be making tons of college friends! I landed in the US and when I got to the bus station-to be continued tomorrow… #MatStories⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Often times, we can simply go through the motions, so we must move with intention to benefit from the work we do as movers. With double leg stretch we want to hit a picture and move dynamically, committing to it fully. Our band placement here incorporates both variations of work from one leg stretch, it both challenges greater core engagement as well as stimulates shoulder strength and mobility.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #KonnectionsOnMat #MarchMATness #Pilates #PilatesMat #MatWork #PilatesMethod #PilatesCommunity #GetKonnected #KonnectYourself #Core #konnectionsformat #KonnectMethod #ViktorUygan #BalancedBody #PilatesMethod #VikTour #Breathe #Control #Coordination #Therabands #ResistanceBands #pilatesinmycity #KonnectPilates #MenDoPilates @marchmatness @360pilatesonline @pilatesanytimeus https://www.instagram.com/p/CMH_fWTg6oy/?igshid=5unwbxnfc8sp

Are you ready? #marchmatness is coming Grab your friends get to class #getstarted (at Pilates Plus a Restoration Studio, LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLm4_EMpIZp/?igshid=1odsrv59wcvx4

#30. Control Balance This one requires strength and sophisticated stabilizing strategies to support the body in the shoulder stand position while moving the arms and legs. Some intricate muscular counterbalancing goes on as the arms reach for the leg, and as you change sides. In the full classical version, you reach for the leg with both arms. Allison has chosen a slight modification, moving a single arm toward the leg. Whichever version you choose, maintain the height of the pelvis and balance of the spine throughout. Your weight should never bear down onto the neck! Feel it balanced across the back of the shoulders/upper back. ************************************* You might ask what purpose this exercise has in a functional context. While you might not ever do this precise movement in your daily life, the coordination and core integration required to do this well are valuable in understanding and practising whole body movement. It's not about individual muscles or parts. It's about how all those things work together to create fluid, well controlled movement. The body as an orchestra; with every element playing its part in the whole. And that, my friends, is really what Pilates is all about. ************************************* ⭐️⭐️ Like AND comment on this post to be entered in a draw to win a fantastic March Matness Home Pilates Prize pack; including some fabulous mat gear, a month of unlimited mat classes, and a free private lesson with one of our expert instructors! This prize pack has a retail value of over $600! See full contest rules in the link in bio. ⭐️⭐️ . . . . . . . . #marchmatness (at Moving Spirit) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-W-v5HB9iW/?igshid=zusysf4v9z1y

#28. Seal & Crab Each of these exercises serve as a spinal massage while promoting flexibility and articulation, with the body in motion. Once again, the limbs are used as a moving, changing weight load. *********************************** In the seal, the arms/hands support and clap the legs together. This is more than quirky choreography! When the hands move the legs, a beautiful dissociation occurs between the pelvis and the legs. The hips and groin can release into what is often a more functional relationship for the pelvis, legs & spine. It takes practice and inner strength to balance on the shoulders and clap at the same time. *********************************** The crab offers its own challenges in the form of suspended moments - when the arms & legs extend long to switch, and when the spine curves forward to place the head gently on the mat. Poor support here can end in a face plant! Maintain a deep lifted support of the spine as you lift up off the legs & tip forward. *********************************** ⭐️⭐️ Like AND comment on this post to be entered in a draw to win a fantastic March Matness Home Pilates Prize pack; including some fabulous mat gear, a month of unlimited mat classes, and a free private lesson with one of our expert instructors! This prize pack has a retail value of over $600! See full contest rules in the link in bio. ⭐️⭐️ . . . . . . . . #marchmatness #movingspiritpilates #northvancouverpilates (at Moving Spirit) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-R6NBSB7kx/?igshid=15zh6vxk5q3ll

#27. Boomerang The boomerang is all about spinal flexibility and articulation, with the body in motion, and the body parts used as weight load. That’s the official version. *********************************** This is an advanced exercise that requires great core integration, balance and fluidity. The perfect blend of deep core connection and psoas engagement will allow the legs to float off the floor without a big heave-ho. Remember to look for the “moment of joy” at the top of the roll forward, as the arms come around, before curving over the legs! *********************************** ⭐️⭐️ Like AND comment on this post to be entered in a draw to win a fantastic March Matness Home Pilates Prize pack; including some fabulous mat gear, a month of unlimited mat classes, and a free private lesson with one of our expert instructors! This prize pack has a retail value of over $600! See full contest rules in the link in bio. ⭐️⭐️ . . . . . . #marchmatness #movingspiritpilates #northvancouverpilates http://bit.ly/2IPrdm3 (at Moving Spirit) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-PQ0cvhJGM/?igshid=fw6vtbdb76x8