Pilates expert Amy Jordan reveals 3 simple moves you can do at home without any equipment

Just in time for the new year, You love JordanACE Certified Pilates Instructor and founder of WundaBar, she said hollywood life EXCLUSIVELY, the three simple movements you can do at home without any equipment. Amy revealed that pilates is a great workout option for people to do at home in a small space. “All you need is your body and not a lot of space. The live workouts that I do online or the ones on our On-Demand platform that are pre-recorded workouts, I talk to people all the time about how to do it with no props, no equipment, all on the ground and with your own body. And, you know, sometimes you just need to use things around the house like a chair, a water bottle, a scarf, or a paper plate. Stuff like that that everyone has access to. Right now I’m not wearing any fancy accessories like a pilates circle or anything people don’t have access to right now.”

“So, for a lot of people who have a small space, it doesn’t need to take up a lot of space,” Amy continued. “What I think is so important about Pilates is that it really stretches and opens up your body. We are all trapped inside. We’re sitting in front of a computer on Zoom calls, we’re sitting on our phones, we’re watching Netflix, and we shudder with every breath in every movement. So you really have to reconnect with every move.”

The three movements you can do at home are:

1. Cards:

“I believe planks are the most effective way to sculpt your arms and shoulders, flatten your abs and tone your legs. You can start with a 30 second wait and then add 15 seconds a day. I suggest doing it every day. And then you can add variation by bringing one foot to the left and back to center. Then bring the other foot to the right, bring it back to center and that will work for your waist. This will tighten your waist if you take one step to the side at a time and then come back to center.

2. Roll Down/L-Sit:

“Another move I would recommend is rolling down and that will really help open up the spine in the back. So, step one: you can call it an L-sit, with your legs in front of you sitting straight. Then you have to think about rolling your spine along one vertebra at a time. So you don’t want to fall apart and hit the ground, do you? You want to control this movement one bone at a time until your head touches.

Then you’ll want to bring it back, preferably at the same rate, taking one bone at a time until it’s back into an L shape. So this will really help open up your spine and support it by engaging your core. . It will stretch the back of your legs because it’s not easy to sit like an L.”

3. Extra Deep Squats:

“Another move I would recommend that is really great for strengthening your glutes and legs and will take the strain off your hips is what I call the extra deep squat. Basically, you step your feet wider than shoulder-width apart and pointing outward, and then lower yourself as low as possible into a squat.

“The ideal would be to have your hands in prayer and your elbows inside your knees. So you will be very low in that squat. Really helps build stamina, helps increase flexibility in your ankles, knees and hips. This will relieve some of the tension you feel when sitting. So I would suggest trying to start holding this squat for 30 seconds at a time.

“Try doing this squat in the morning and again in the evening. Try to keep your feet flat and try to stand upright instead of leaning forward, then keep your back straight. Start with 30 seconds and add back to these in 15-second increments as your stamina and flexibility increase.

The great thing about pilates is that you can use things at home to enhance your workout, or you don’t have to. “You definitely don’t need equipment to get a truly spectacular workout. There are things around the house like a chair, paper plates, or a towel instead of furniture sliders. Move your foot across the floor, that’s all you need, right? You can use a scarf instead of a resistance band or yoga strap. For arm extensions and such, we use a scarf. We use bottles of wine, or at my house, all I had was champagne, so many bottles of champagne for pesos. People use cans of soup or coconut milk instead of dumbbells. So people are getting really creative.”

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