Curls Exercises For Anybody Video

Learn how to do sensible curls for all body types in this free fitness video on pilates exercises that anyone can do.

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Benna Miller is a certified Pilates instructor specializing in fitness for adults, children and the "slightly" more mature population. She attended UCLA and graduated Mills College with a degree in Dance. She taught dance and fitness at various levels and worked as a dancer in film and television. For 11 years Benna served as Crystal Cruises' Ballroom and Latin dancer (teaching and performing). contact www.bodiesbybenna.com

Hi, my name is Benna Miller and on behalf of Expert Village in this clip we'll be doing, not only ab work, but we'll be doing bicep work which is this part of your arm, and triceps work which is the back side of your upper arm. This is called a stretch band. I'm going to place it around the bottom of my feet. These stretch bands always come with a handle. You're going to roll down and you're going to extend your arms. You don't want your elbows right at your side at this moment, we're going to keep the arms forward. We're going to go, exhale and lift the arms up, and inhale and lower. This works the core. You can see this is working the bicep right here. Three, two, and one. Now, never let the wrist break. By that I mean your palm, you should always be able to see the palms of your hand. So, as you do any exercise with any resistance, be very cognizant of not letting the wrist break and not being able to see your hands. Now, you can take this exercise with your elbows glued to your hip bones and it's an excellent bicep curl as well. So far, we've remained in the C-spine and we've brought our arms forward, you've brought you elbows to your hips and you draw you arms towards you with an exhale. To do the triceps you sit up tall, or as tall as you can. Your arms are below shoulder height, you're up, pulling your shoulder blades down, and you press your arms wide and release. Extend out, kind of like you're rowing, out and release and let's have an exhale. Out, and hold it so your palms are facing back, three, two, one, and release. Very nice job. We've done biceps, triceps, and abs.

Curls Exercises for Anybody Video

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