Pilates exercises: ab workout for beginners
These Pilates exercises are for you if you never worked out on your abs before. The biggest wish is to have perfect waistline, but you have no idea what to do, or how to start working out reasonably? Pilates abs exercises workout is the answer to all your questions. It’s important to know that as a beginner you have to be focused at exercises that include many muscle groups at the same time.
Pilates builds strength balance in your whole body and it is the main thing you need if you are deconditioned. After a course of Pilates you will be able to work harder on your abdominal muscles, because as more difficulties as better results will be.
There is a list of Pilates exercises below, follow the guidelines and get your perfect shape.
Pilates exercises to strengthen your abs
“The hundred” guide
Lie down on the floor or fitness mat, bend your knees and get your feet in the same breadth as your hips are. Keep your hands straighten aside yourself. Roll your chin and chest of the mat so that you are raised up base of your shoulder blades and draw your shoulders away from your ears. Raise your hands up about 6 inches and pump them up and down very quickly for a while breathing in and breathing out, repeat it 5 times. While performing this exercise keep your back connected to fitness mat but do not squeeze it too hard.
“Half roll back” guide
Sit down on the fitness mat and bend your knees, place your feet in the same breadth as your hips are, stretch your arms in front of you at your shoulders height. Breathe in and exert your abdominal muscles, breathe out while rolling your spine back of your tail bone by rounding your back. Make a letter “C” with your spine, but do not lift your feet up of the mat. Breathe in to stay, and while breathing out get back to starting position. Repeat this exercise 5 times.
Criss-cross or Obliques preparation
Lie down on the mat, bend your knees and place feet in the same breadth as your hips are, hands have to be held behind your head. While breathing out rotate your waist to the right side and roll head and shoulders of the mat. Keep yourself in this position while breathing out. Breathe in and get back to the starting position. Repeat it 5 times for each side, but keep underneath of your back connected to the mat all the time.
To make it more difficult: change sides with no breaks.
These guides for Pilates exercises are just tentative stuff, there are much more positive things, but you need to combine it with some other exercises. It’s advisable to do some cardiovascular exercises as with all other kind of workouts. It could be a little bit difficult to perform all exercises correctly if you are just a beginner, so it would be better to consult with a certified Pilates instructor and to get strict guidance. Following it there will be less chances to hurt yourself.
