Renew your upper body love with Bolster
Renew your upper body love with Bolster- Increase your strength
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Welcome to our new edition of mini gif tutorials designed to help you progress in your practice. I believe that getting the best out of your classes is key to furthering your practice, feeling strong, and alive, and maintaining better posture.
This month, alongside our regular weekly Mat exercises, we’re introducing quick, easy-to-digest mini-tutorial exercises. These mini-tutorials are aimed at addressing specific challenges that students often encounter in class. I want to hear from you about the exercises you find difficult or want to improve upon.
How to participate
1. Share Your Struggles:
Use the provided link to let me know which exercises you find challenging or would like to see covered in the mini tutorials. Your feedback will help me tailor the content to your needs. Share your exercises in the comment box below.
When you release muscles tensions from your spine more muscles in your upper body are more available. @jeaniquepilates
2. Accessing Mini Tutorials: That’s the best part. If you are a visual person, these gifs are the best way to absorb and learn. But if you want more or can’t see the gif well, come on over to today’s post for extra notes to help you. Make sure to check our post every Saturday for new exercises.
Equipment: The Reformer
Pilates Exercise: The Up Stretch
Tips and techniques: The key of this exercise is to maintain the hundreds upper body curl as you open and closed the carriage
Alignment: Ankle align with little toe
Equipment: Tower/Cadillac
Pilates Exercise: Teaser with arm variation
Tips and techniques: As you inhale keep the upper body – chest and upper back up like a big inflated ballon to bend and stretch the arms.
Alignment: Feet high level
Equipment: Center Line Low Chair
Pilates Exercise: Head Press Kneeling on floor
Tips and techniques: As you exhale slowing straighten your arms while you maintain your upper body curled, without your head remain still on the paddle bar.
Alignment: Hips stay over knees, elbows over wrist.
As we focus on upper body strength this month, take some time to reflect on your current strengths and areas for improvement. Whether it’s building arm strength, improving shoulder stability, or mastering specific exercises like push-ups or arm balances, these mini-tutorials will provide targeted guidance to help you progress.
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