Pilates Ring Challenge Your Focus

This class is great for adding variety and challenge to your pilates ring routines. Today we will practice standing and mat exercises. These exercises will challenge your focus, breath, and balance. The class begins with standing exercises designed to get your arms and shoulders warmed up. Once warm, you will test your balance with single-leg adduction and heel raises using the ring. Both exercises are really challenging. It’s important to stay focused and channel your breath into your deep core to help with balance. Next, we move on to matwork. I love the support the ring gives during the chest lift exercise. It’s important to relax the neck and allow the abdominals to do the work. This is how it should feel when doing a chest lift the traditional way. My favorite part of the class is the side leg series. They look easy, but those squeeze exercises are no joke! Enjoy the burn. We finish up by doing the swan extensions. These are super great and challenging. Make sure you connect your shoulders down to your mid back! Let’s get started.