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This exercise will improve your posture, counteracting the slumped posture we all get slumped over desks, bikes and steering wheels…

This exercise will stretch your hamstrings, glutes and lower back as well as mobilising your spine bringing your body back into balance, ready for more endurance sports.

Perfect for runners and cyclists, this exercise will stretch out the whole of you from your arches, through to your hamstrings, all the way up your back.

Perfect for runners and cyclists, this rolling exercise will dynamically stretch your back line while strengthening your abdominals.

Perfect for runners and cyclists, this exercise will stretch out the whole of you from your arches, through to your hamstrings, all the way up your back.

This is practising walking & running on your back!  Any abdominal strengthening programme that omits rotation is omitting 50% of your abdominals.

Pilates is about strength, flexibility and control. This exercise has all three of these in spadefuls as well as providing backache insurance.

It’s perfect for anyone that spends a long time hunched over desks or electronic equipment.

This is a the first of five spinal massages you’ll find in Joseph Pilates’ book “Return to Life”. It’s the easiest and prepares us for greater challenges!

There are two exercises here: one (small circles) challenges you to stay stable and the other (Joe’s version) challenges you to mobilise your lower spine and your hip.  Both will challenge you to stretch your hamstrings if you need to!

the Roll Over is an advanced exercise – make sure that your comfortable with the Roll Over preparation first! You’ll get stronger abs, a more flexible spine and longer hamstrings if you practice this!