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March MATness Day 24 B: The Leg-Pull

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πŸ”₯ Note: There are TWO posts for March 24th! πŸ”₯

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The second half of our double day with the Leg-Pull I’d be calling β€œFront” but Joe had to confuse us all…

Andrea Maid writes – just to repeat her plea to Joe πŸ˜‰: β€œWe’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 25 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 04:13:

youtu.be/a25AP2xMAkU

You can read more about the exercise and written instructions at the OPC page for it: onlinepilatesclasses.com/pi...

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... )

Andrea Maida shows a more basic version here (and also got confused with the names…):

youtu.be/b7qHYd6q9Ac?t=840

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Standing variations for exercises 26-30: instagram.com/reel/CaVZQ33B...

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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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β˜… Our March MATness summary page: healthunlocked.com/strength... β˜…

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