Our studio offers Pilates, Yoga, various group fitness classes, specialized group classes, personal training and rehabilitation.
06/11/2015
Reverse Crunch with Resistance Bands
Targets: transverse abdominals
Lie on your back with your knees bent, arms down by your sides, holding one end of a band in each hand, with the band wrapped around tops of shins. Raise your knees toward your chest until your hips leave the floor. Hold for 3 seconds; lower to start. Repeat for 2 sets of 10 reps.
06/10/2015
Fingers to Toes
Targets: re**us abdominus
Lie on your back with your legs straight and extended toward the ceiling, with arms down by your sides. Exhale and contract your abs as you crunch up from your waist and extend your hands toward your toes. Keep your back flat on the floor. Work up to 2 sets of 15 reps.
06/09/2015
Benefits Of Yoga
06/08/2015
Butterfly Crunch
Targets: re**us abdominus ("six-pack")
Lie on your back with the soles of your feet together as close to your body as possible, with knees bent out to sides. Place hands behind your head, elbows in line with ears. Keeping your back flat on floor and stomach muscles contracted, exhale and curl your chest up a few inches off the floor toward your legs. Lower to start. Repeat 10 times
06/07/2015
Strength Training
06/06/2015
Leg Pull Front
Targets: Abdominals, Back, Quads
Sit with legs extended, hands on floor, fingers pointing toward body.
Lift hips off floor to bring body into a straight line.
Raise left leg as high as you can without shifting hips.
Hold for 3 seconds, then slowly lower leg to floor.
Alternate sides.
06/05/2015
Benefits of Pilates: It's Ah-Mazing for Your Abs
Pilates hits your core (or, in Pilates speak, your "powerhouse") unlike any other workout. In fact, after completing 36 weeks of Pilates training, women strengthened their re**us abdominis (the muscle responsible for six-packs) by an average of 21 percent, while eliminating muscle imbalances between the right and left sides of their cores, according to a Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise study.
06/04/2015
Seated Spine Twist
Targets: Obliques
Sit with legs extended, feet flexed, arms extended at sides at shoulder level.
Inhale and sit up tall, then exhale and draw your abs in, twisting at the waist to the right.
Rotate rib cage, arms, and head, keeping hips square.
Inhale and return to face front.
Repeat to the left, then continue to alternate sides.
06/03/2015
Spine Stretch Forward
Targets: Back, Abdominals
Sit with arms and legs extended.
Inhale and sit up tall; exhale and reach forward over legs.
Curl head, neck, and shoulders forward, scooping navel toward spine. (Think of bending over a beach ball, not bending at the waist.)
Inhale; hold for 1 count.
Exhale; deepen abdominal scoop.
Inhale, rolling up to sit.
Repeat.
06/02/2015
Double-Leg Stretch
Targets: Abdominals, Inner Thighs
Lie on back, hugging knees into chest.
Curl head, neck, and shoulders off floor.
Extend arms overhead next to ears; simultaneously lift legs 45 degrees.
Hold for 1 count, then bend knees, circling arms out to sides to return hands to shins.
Repeat, keeping upper body lifted and inner thighs pressed together.