Core Fitness #3 – Reduce Neck Pain with Pilates Matwork Exercises
Core Fitness #3 – Reduce Neck Pain with Pilates Matwork Exercises
How to Reduce Neck Strain during Abdominal Exercises One of the biggest complaints I hear from new Pilates students is that their neck hurts when they are doing some of the exercises. And truly when I started learning Pilates, my neck was a weak link too! Avoid Looking at the Ceiling during Sit-Ups and crunches to reduce neck strain. Instead, look at your abs to see that they are working well and pulling in towards your spine. Whats the difference you might be asking there are so many fitness classes that you go to where the instructor constantly reminds you to keep looking at the ceiling while you’re doing your crunches and ab curls. And, yes that’s an option. But from a Pilates standpoint, here’s why I’m going to encourage you to change that habit and perhaps stop following that not-so-hot bit of advice for your neck. Do you agree that when you’re standing with good posture, your head is nicely stacked over your shoulders, and you really don’t notice or feel much strain in your neck? That’s because its balanced and supported on your spine along with the help of gravity. If you’re standing and you let your head fall off-balance in any direction, forward, backwards, or sideways, all of a sudden you’ll notice that your neck muscles have to work much harder against the weight of your head which is now basically falling off your spine! Can you feel the difference? Now take that same thought process back to your Ab work! If you’re laying on the floor and do a small-range of …
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@YOUmommaHAX a warm up? get real.
Love being able to be live in the class!
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Excellent work out. Is there any DVD of these work out that can be purchased in the UK or by online?
@YOUmommaHAX get over yourself
i love this workout its very energetic thanks for posting lol i wish u’d come to Egypt!
Great workout…i’ve lost weight! Thanks nikkic1181:)
…… i wonder if you can train an overweight tabby cat to do these exersices…… hell ya!!
very intense warm workout, is there any chance you sell the dvds or anyhow have an live session in Hawaii?
can i jOin this aerObics class?where abOut this class?dO u have a dvd fOr this?
@YOUmommaHAX
I merely lay facts sweetheart, bitchy or not.
You need to grow up and act your age.
You don’t know me and you never will. Not in this life time.
@Bitchy87 wow grow up? you are really bitchy huh, your username fits you very well.
Again im not gonna waste my time with this, but when U see someone coming to u fast its prob me. So watch out cuz maybe I know you =p
@YOUmommaHAX
Wow…you are really making a fool out of yourself. Two words for you, GROW UP
@Bitchy87 lmao no wonder u talk like a nerd, u read books….who the hell reads books? what is wrong with you? you cant learn things yourself so you gotta get it from some boring books? lmao. I got better things to do then stand there looking at boring never ending text. And ur scared to vs me in thoso cuz u know you would lose. If I ever see u in real life I will bite u in the leg hard.
@YOUmommaHAX
I can see you deleted your contemptible comment.
I respond like a nerd? Grow up cretin. I rather be a nerd than a half-wit narrow-minded thing like yourself. Instead of playing video games and challenging me, pick up a book and enhance your ability to comprehend, trash.
@Bitchy87 listen son, yes u r my son, you talk like a total nerd, so I myself don’t want to argue wit ur pathetic ass either, but, if u wanna bring it, come to call of duty mw2 and ill own ur ass there and make u cry. You Chumbalaya. Or, we could have a pillow fight, am good at thoso, or, U could just let me throw pie in ur face, I would like that, or let me bite u in the shoulder.
@YOUmommaHAX
First of all, I am NOT your “son”. Smh…your response depicts childishness, so I won’t argue with your pathetic ass. You are 16 which means your stamina should be way better than most of the people in the video. You lunatic.
@Bitchy87 wow son u r truely stupid, am only 16 so I should be able to do more intense? Thoso people in the video arent in their 80′s……They are a couple years away from me, well most of them. Plus, if they are older they are the ones that can do more intense, dummie am not comparing myself to anybody, you are. u just made yourself look and sound stupid. Like a chumbalaya.
@YOUmommaHAX
Duh!!! You are only 16, which means you should be able to do much more intense workouts. Don’t compare yourself with these older people….smh, the arrogance.
Omg…@00:57 That lady in the white needs to get out of there she has no fat to loose…she looks like bones cased in skin..
@nikkic1181 you could post it in parts
@YOUmommaHAX what workouts do you do?
I totally LOVE the Energy this group has…
Can u post it by parts? Like part 1, part 2, etc…
Can u post it by parts? Like part 1, part 2, etc…
@fabumiche – Sorry, youtube only allows us to post 10 minute clips.