The wonderful world of Pilates variations
If you look for them, there are endless variations to the basic Pilates exercises…
Picture: the Pilates 100 “on a side bend” provides an interesting balance and stability problem. Which is your weakest side? Do you lose your balance on one side and not the other?
Basic exercises answer the questions, what, how and occasionally, why?
But variations add the question, what happens if? -
What happens if I do a Pilates 100 with a side bend?
What happens if I add a sit-up in-bed stretch to the rollup?
What happens if I add toe-and-ankle-flex-and-stretch to the single-leg circle?
Well, what does happen?
There are technical improvements to how (and how well) your body parts brace and stabilise…
The answer is that the same old exercise now improves toe and ankle flexibility, lumbar stability in a side bend, upper chest flexibility, and shoulder blade stabilisation when arms are overhead.
You travel in your imagination to places you have never been before…
You also learn to yawn and stretch like a cat, hold and wriggle like a baby, and move from hip to toe like a dancer!
Welcome to the wonderful world of Pilates variations!