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
3. Crisscross Reach
Fitness Focus: core, quads, glutes
- Step your right foot about 12 inches to the right and bend your right knee 90 degrees into a side lunge.
- Reach left arm diagonally up with fingertips pointing toward the ceiling and right arm diagonally down, fingertips pointing toward the floor (not shown).
- Place left hand behind head, elbow bent to side.
- Exhaling, lift your right knee across your body toward your left hip and left elbow toward your right knee.
- Return to lunge position and repeat to complete 8 reps, then switch sides.







