How To Tone Your Stomach With Pilates Video

Pilates tones and strengthen abs. Learn how to tone stomach muscles with the exercises in this video lesson.

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Press small of back into mat
Engage abs
Use Pilates studio equipment

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Known as the trainers' trainer, Carol Ann has 19 years of professional fitness training experience, a Master's degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion, and CEC provider status with AFAA and ACE. She holds current fitness certifications including Group X Instructor, Personal Trainer, Pilates, Yoga, Aqua Fitness, Kickboxing, and Lifestyle Fitness Coaching. Carol Ann has traveled nationally and internationally training fitness professionals, presenting certifications and workshops, and sharing her knowledge for specific training techniques and application. Along with various fitness training DVD's, she is the creator and star of the fitness DVD series called The Steel Physique System. She also is a freelance fitness expert writer for several publications. In 2008 she is launching Studio Group X, a premier state-of-the-art group exercise studio in North Tampa, FL. The focus is to engage her clients into leading healthy lifestyles for a lifetime through an educational and fun process.

CAROLANN: Now, we always want to know how we can tone our stomach area, so Pilates is perfect for us to accomplish that goal. So whenever you are performing Pilates, think about drawing that navel in towards your spine, and that will help you to engage your abdominal muscles. Now, when you're lying down on your back performing any type of floor exercise that you can think of, you want to think about pressing the small of your back into the mat and that automatically forces your abdominal muscles to have to engage and work. Now, there are tons of core exercises or stomach exercises that you can do in Pilates. You've got the roll up, for example, and that works your core. You've got teaser exercise where you're holding a position here and you're working the abdominal area. So you have tons of floor exercises that you can do to work the core, and then also you've got equipment that you can use. We have the reformer, the cadillac, the chair. So these pieces of equipment, you can typically find in any Pilates studio. Just make sure that you have proper instruction before you start to utilize the equipment. And then most importantly, if you can focus on proper breathing that is going to automatically tighten up that core area. So inhale through the nose and exhale forcefully, and that's how you're going to tone up the stomach area.

How to Tone Your Stomach With Pilates Video

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