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
4a. Single-Leg Front and Back Kick
Fitness Focus: core, back, hamstrings
- Step left leg forward about 12 inches and bend knee into a lunge.
- Bend elbows 90 degrees, hands in front of face, palms in.
- Raise right leg behind you.
- Bend right knee and kick right heel toward glutes, foot flexed, then kick with toes pointed.
- Repeat 4 to 8 times.
4b. Single-Leg Front and Back Kick
- While balancing on left foot, straighten legs and kick right leg forward at hip height, arms extended out to sides, then kick leg back.
- Repeat 4 to 8 times; switch sides.
Next: 5a. Crossover Sweep
