🔥 Note: There are TWO posts for March 24th! 🔥
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Another double day – March 24th! We’re doing the two Leg Pull exercises today (#25 and #26). They are one of those weirdly named exercises (again) because in the “front” version you’re lifting your leg back and in the regular version you’re lifting it up front. Go figure!
Andrea Maid writes: “We’ve done our stretches of the front of the body before we get to this exercise, but now there’s a little more at stake. Gone is the luxury of lying down, and my God, we still have to work each side separately.
Joe Pilates, have you no mercy??!”
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As always, if you need to warm-up, do at least The Hundred, maybe all of the previous 24 exercises. Then repeat this exercise 3 times on each side.
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Follow Joe’s instructions from the excerpt from Return to Life. And make sure to modify to ensure your body gets what you need today.
Instructions from Online Pilates Classes – with suggestions on how to make the exercise easier starting at about 01:15:
You can read more about the exercise and written instructions at the OPC page for it: onlinepilatesclasses.com/pi...
Instructions for Leg-Pull Front, especially for us runners, cued to this exercise:
Another set of instructions from the Pilates Lesson Plan, including a video and modification suggestions, are here: georgewatts.org/lesson-plan... (and pilateslessonplans.co.uk/fr... )
Tips & hints from Andrea Maida – and also starting at 14:41:
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Standing variations for exercises 21-25 by RAD Pilates: instagram.com/reel/CaLDxysh...
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Photo from Return to Life as published by Presentation Dynamics. Photos are far better reproduced in the paperback published by the Pilates Method Alliance in 2010, which isn’t available electronically. (See this post for the title page: healthunlocked.com/strength... )
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