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How to Do Half Roll Down with the Mini Body Bar Pilates Exercise

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Half Roll Down with the Mini Body Bar is a variation of original Pilates exercises that helps strengthen the...

How to Do Half Roll Down with the Mini Body Bar -

Half Roll Down with the Mini Body Bar is a variation of original Pilates exercises that helps strengthen the abdominal muscles and increases the flexibility of the spine. Be sure to choose a bar that is not too heavy (we use four pounds) as you do not want to over-challenge the shoulder girdle stabilizers! Adding biceps curls to this exercise targets both the arms and the abs…what could be better!

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How to Do Half Roll Down with the Mini Body Bar Pilates Exercise

Katherine: Welcome to the Pilates on Fifth, ultimatepilatesworkouts.com video Podcast. Today's exercise is Half Roll Down with the Mini Body Bar. And you can go to ultimatepilatesworkouts.com and we have many free full length mat workouts including a mat workout with the body bar, go and get it; ultimatepilatesworkouts.com. Well, let's get started with today's exercise. So, you are sitting nice and tall in this sit bones with pelvis and spine in neutral. The legs are together strongly air ducted and now you hold the body bar in front of you shoulder high. Inhale here, on the exhale just as with any half role down, you crawl over from the top of the head, create a nice curve with the spine as you all know by now we don't really get a lot of coverage in our spine, but our abs are working to create strong curve and that's what's important. So, inhale here, on the exhale roll down taking the weight off the sit bones, deepening the curve in the lumbar spine and inhale rolling backout to the sit bones maintaining that curve. Now, when you have the body bar, you obviously can go a little bit further then you would be able to without the body bar. As an example, let's try this for taking away the body bar when she goes back as far as with she have the body bar the leg start to pop up of it. So, for those of you who have a tight lower back or you working on getting that whole curve thing, the body bar can be an excellent tool to get that going really well. Now, you can stay here and do biceps curls. So, exhale, bend the elbows, inhale straighten. So now, you're working the inner thighs, you are working the abs, obliques, which are part of the abs obviously and the biceps as well as you do and you keep pushing the limit; how far can you go back without you know getting to the point of no return, and then rolling out from there. And that is the half roll down using the mini body bar. If you have any questions or you would like further information about our New York studio, Pilates on fifth on our teacher training program, the Pilates Academy International, or any of our products including ultimatepilatesworkouts.com, you can log on to pilatesonfifth.com or ultimatepilatesworkouts.com. All the products are there and all the workouts are there. Take care.

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Katherine: Welcome to the Pilates on Fifth, ultimatepilatesworkouts.com video Podcast. Today's exercise is Half Roll Down with the Mini Body Bar. And you can go to ultimatepilatesworkouts.com and we have many free full length mat workouts including a mat workout with the body bar, go and get it; ultimatepilatesworkouts.com. Well, let's get started with today's exercise.

So, you are sitting nice and tall in this sit bones with pelvis and spine in neutral. The legs are together strongly air ducted and now you hold the body bar in front of you shoulder high. Inhale here, on the exhale just as with any half role down, you crawl over from the top of the head, create a nice curve with the spine as you all know by now we don't really get a lot of coverage in our spine, but our abs are working to create strong curve and that's what's important. So, inhale here, on the exhale roll down taking the weight off the sit bones, deepening the curve in the lumbar spine and inhale rolling backout to the sit bones maintaining that curve.

Now, when you have the body bar, you obviously can go a little bit further then you would be able to without the body bar. As an example, let's try this for taking away the body bar when she goes back as far as with she have the body bar the leg start to pop up of it. So, for those of you who have a tight lower back or you working on getting that whole curve thing, the body bar can be an excellent tool to get that going really well. Now, you can stay here and do biceps curls. So, exhale, bend the elbows, inhale straighten.

So now, you're working the inner thighs, you are working the abs, obliques, which are part of the abs obviously and the biceps as well as you do and you keep pushing the limit; how far can you go back without you know getting to the point of no return, and then rolling out from there. And that is the half roll down using the mini body bar.

If you have any questions or you would like further information about our New York studio, Pilates on fifth on our teacher training program, the Pilates Academy International, or any of our products including ultimatepilatesworkouts.com, you can log on to pilatesonfifth.com or ultimatepilatesworkouts.com. All the products are there and all the workouts are there. Take care.

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