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
5a. Crossover Sweep
Fitness Focus: core, obliques, back, quads
- Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, arms by sides.
- Lift right leg out to side 6 inches off the floor and simultaneously sweep your arms across your body to the left.
5b. Crossover Sweep
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- Step right foot 12 inches diagonally in front of your left foot.
- Sweep your arms across your body to the right as you bend both knees 90 degrees into a "curtsy" lunge. (Your left heel will come off the floor.)
- Straighten legs and return to starting position.
- Complete 8 reps on each leg.
Originally published in Fitness magazine, March 2006.
