Pilates on Fifth Video Podcast A free weekly Pilates online video program to train your core muscles!

Strengthen your core and get ready to bare that TWELVE pack with this Pilates workout featuring great Pilates exercises and giving you a taste of what you can do with Pilates online if you stick with Pilates on Fifth’s UltimatePilatesWorkouts.com. We all love to indulge in a full-length Pilates workout, but sometimes time is not on your side. With our Pilates online workouts, we feature Pilates workouts of all length featuring Pilates exercises geared to target a specific area. In addition to our Pilates workout for abs, we also have a workout featuring Pilates exercises just for the legs and butt, the core, and even a Pilates online workout just focusing on the arms and back. Our Pilates workouts online range in length from ten minutes to over 45 minutes, and our Pilates online sort feature allows you to select the Pilates workout of your choice based on length, level, and Pilates equipment featured. Additionally, if you want to know more about Pilates exercises, you can visit our training page and download a Pilates exercise file explaining specifically how to do that Pilates exercise correctly. We highly recommend the Pilates in Ten “Ab Attack and hope that you will visit our Pilates online site and try out a Pilates workout, and even learn something new about the Pilates exercises you already love.

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Pilates mat exercises, ones that bring the body into lateral flexion (side bending) are relatively few, especially when compared to the Pilates exercises that flex the spine. That’s why we love the Side Bend and always include this Pilates exercise in our advanced Pilates classes at our Pilates studio in NYC, Pilates on Fifth. The Side Bend is one of those fabulous Pilates mat exercises that works so many muscle groups simultaneously, which is why it is a more advanced Pilates exercise. Moreover, we get to work the arms!! Many people who are trying Pilates for the first time and come to our Pilates studio often think that Pilates mat exercises only work the abs. Well, once they try the Side Bend, they know that there is much more to advanced Pilates then just abs!

Because there are many muscle groups working in the Side Bend (which can often lead to brain overload), we find at our Pilates studio that this is one of the more difficult Pilates mat exercises to teach students to do correctly. First and foremost, the muscles of the legs have to work in concert to lift the body up in a half moon shape without folding at the hips or losing one’s balance. It is this balance maintenance while performing maximum lateral flexion (side bending that makes the Side Bend an advanced Pilates mat exercise.

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Mat Pilates is one of the best ways to sculpt rock hard abdominals and long, lean muscles. But many complain that there aren’t enough arm and shoulder exercises in a mat Pilates class. Look no further! The Pilates exercise Side Plank strengthens the core and strengthens the muscles surrounding the shoulder – a great combination for both Pilates and yoga enthusiasts!

If you do Pilates and yoga, then you have probably also done a lot of planks! The side plank is actually a derivation of the Pilates exercise Side Bend, very popular in mat Pilates classes. At our New York City Pilates studio, Pilates on Fifth, we have discovered in our ten years of business that in a traditional mat Pilates class, no Pilates exercise prepares the Pilates performer to support the weight of the body on one arm before they get to the Side Bend. Now, if they’ve been doing Pilates and Yoga for a while, then they have developed the strength from poses such as “Vashistasana” (Side Plank).

Pilates and yoga both require strong arms and shoulders, though in mat Pilates, this requirement is not as obvious. Pilates on the equipment is usually where Pilates practitioners turn for arm strengthening Pilates exercises, but in our Pilates training program, we teach students that by incorporating a Pilates exercise such as Side Plank into a Pilates workout, you’ll have strong arms and shoulders in no time!

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Pilates beginner? No problem! This efficient Pilates workout will have you feeling those muscles you sit on all day long in just ten minutes! Women especially always ask for more thigh and hip toning exercises in their Pilates gym workouts, and this video packs all the great butt exercises into a workout you can do on the go!

Any Pilates beginner will appreciate the simplicity of the exercises included in this Pilates workout – no fancy choreography here! Structured more like a Pilates gym workout, this video leaves out the complex exercises and focus on delivering targeted work for the gluteal muscles and the upper hamstrings. Your lovely backside will be lifted for days! But because this is a Pilates workout, of course, you will tone the abdominal muscles, strengthen the core and increase flexibility.

The biggest complaint we get from many a Pilates beginner is “Pilates classes only work the abs!” True, Pilates classes tend to focus on the abdominals and the core more than anything, but every Pilates workout can and should contain exercises for the lovely derriere! If you’re new to Pilates, make sure you check out our podcasts on Shoulder Bridge, Heel Squeeze and Swan Dive as these are some of the Pilates exercises featured in this workout that will help sculpt a beautiful backside! And every Pilates gym goer wants a beautiful backside, right?

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Toe Taps is a modification of classical mat Pilates exercises that is a great addition to any Pilates workout as it is easily executed both by the Pilates beginner and the advanced Pilates practitioner alike. In fact, if you are a Pilates beginner and unsure about your skill at accomplishing some of the more advanced mat Pilates exercises, then Toe Taps is an ideal exercise to include in your Pilates workout. This mat Pilates exercise is ideal for training the abs and the core on how to do Pilates correctly. More specifically, Toe Taps trains the mind body connection to maintain a strong core in every Pilates workout. With Toe Taps, even a Pilates beginner can easily self-correct the exercise themselves. Let’s face it, you’ll know when the rib to hip connection is being lost!

If you are a Pilates beginner, it is especially important that you start your Pilates practice with excellent habits. If you want more tips on how to do mat Pilates correctly, visit www.ultimatepilatesworkouts.com. Our Pilates videos on technique supply Pilates exercise tips so that you can get the most of your Pilates workout. With this knowledge, any Pilates beginner can become a mat Pilates guru and get the most out of his/ her Pilates workout.

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