Btpilates teaching moment: wonderful pilates variations

The wonderful world of Pilates variations

If you look for them, there are endless variations to the basic Pilates exercises.

Basic exercises answer the questions, what, how and occasionally, why?
But variations add the question, what if? -

1. What if I do a Pilates 100 with a side bend?
2. What if I add a sit-up in-bed stretch to the rollup?
3. What if I add toe-and-ankle-flex-and-stretch, to the single leg circle?

Well, what does happen?

The answer is that the same old exercise now improves toe and ankle flexibility, lumbar stability in a side bend, upper chest flexibility and shoulder blade stabilisation when arms are overhead.

Not only that. You also learn to yawn and stretch like a cat, hold and wriggle like a baby, and move from hip to toe like a dancer! Welcome to the amazing world of Pilates variations!

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