Exercise #5595

Teaser

1 min - Exercise

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Description

Muscle Focus: Abdominals

Objective: Build and maintain abdominal strength, coordination, and isolation.

Apparatus: Mat

Start Position: Begin in a supine (laying down) position on the Mat, with legs extended long and arms extended overhead.

Movement: Inhale to prepare. On the exhale, engage in your abdominals to lift the upper and lower body simultaneously, reaching your hands towards the feet. Pause at the top in Teaser position to feel the abdominals pulling in and away from the legs. Roll the body all the way back down to the start position. Repeat up to three times.

What You'll Need: Mat

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Intermediate

Deliberate Pace

May 30, 2024

Equinox Pilates

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Abdominals

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This exercise is called teaser. This wonderful exercise. We normally do about 3 reps. We're gonna do one variation of it here in this exercise. What we're doing in this exercise is we're challenging our abs coordination and isolation as we connect to our power So I'm gonna go ahead and do it the classical way first, laying everything down on the mat, extending the leg's long arms extend overhead.

Pulling my abs into the mat, I'm going to reach the head and neck and shoulders up. Legs and arms come up simultaneously for your reach. Arms extending towards the toes, pulling the abs back as you control your teaser, roll the teaser all the way down, controlling reaching the arms back and getting out of your teaser. Another option that you have here is starting from the position of a ball. From a ball, slightly roll forward and roll into your teaser, keeping the legs either at tabletop or if that's a lot, extend one leg and alternate legs for your teaser.

Teaser.