Lose Your Ab Flab: Fat-Burning Power Pilates
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- Add Cardio to Pilates
- 1. Standing Hundred
- 2. Plie with Side Lift
- 3. Crisscross Reach
- 4a. Single-Leg Front and Back Kick
- 5a. Crossover Sweep
2. Plie with Side Lift
Fitness Focus: core, quads, glutes
- Stand with feet slightly wider than shoulder-width apart and extend arms out to sides.
- Turn feet out 45 degrees and bend knees 90 degrees into a plie (not shown).
- Straighten right leg while lifting left leg out to side.
- Lower back to plie position and repeat on opposite side.
- Continue alternating 8 times on each leg, inhaling as you bend your knees and exhaling as you extend.
Next: 3. Crisscross Reach
