Dori Markakos: Hi, I’m Dori and this is Intermediate Pilates. Right now, I’m going to show you how to do a Criss Cross Crunch. Go ahead and seat yourself in the middle of your mat, right here on your gluteus, hold onto your hamstrings, take a big deep breath in and I’m going to unroll it nice, easy, and keeping your spine nice and straight.
Look straight your head to keep your spine in neutral, take a nice big stretch before we go ahead and get started, reach both finger tips straight up over your head, flex your toes then point your toes, and then go ahead and just release your feet that they’re just sort of engaged. Make sure your shoulders are nice and stretched down along with your mat, take a big deep breath in, and as exhale, they want you to rotate those hips under.
Go ahead and place both hands right behind your head and but I want you to start with is with a bent left leg and a lifted right leg, okay. Alright, lifted right leg, bent left leg, you are going to go ahead and curl your spine up, eyes are on your navel and all you simply going to do nice and easy is you’re going to rotate to the opposite side.
So, right elbow, it’s going to come towards the left leg, inhale and exhale slowly switch and rotate to the left, so actually going to think about trying to bring down. Arm get closer to the knee and not just the elbow. Good. Inhale and exhale switch to the left, nice and slow, inhale and exhale switch to the right. We have got three more inhale, exhale rotate to the left, inhale and exhale rotate to the right. Last two, inhale and exhale to the left, inhale and exhale to the right; last one, inhale, exhale to the left, inhale, exhale to the right. Come right back to center, slowly roll up nice and easy, let’s go ahead and move on to the corkscrew.
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