Home Pilates Exercises: The Bridge

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This exercise is called the bridge. Now we typically do the bridge in a pailates type exercise formate and within that format you can use what's called a pilates ring to help you assist with your alignment. Now if you don't have a pilates ring, at home, you can grab the next best thing and that is a roll of paper towel. So, what you're going to do is you're going place the roll between your knees and gently press against the paper towels, come all the way down on your back and pull your belly button in, pull your arms down along side your body, shoulder blades come back and down, inhale to prepare and exhale start with your tail bone and peel up one vertebra at a time. Lift your hips up as high as you can, squeeze your glutes, inhale at the top and then exhale as you imprint one vertebra at a time. This is great for your core, your glutes, your inner thighs, and is just an overall great exercise to build that core stability strength. And you can perform that exercise anywhere between ten and fifteen reps, and that is your bridge exercise using a roll of paper towel.

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