Strengthening Exercises With A Pilates Ring
Get ready to strengthen and stretch your entire body with a Pilates Ring! This simple tool can be an effective way to improve your balance, strength, and overall health - adding extra resistance for increased challenge. Strengthen those core muscles that are essential for bodily stability.
Arm Exercises
- Seated Ring Squeeze
Start by putting your arms out of chest height, shoulder width. Do little pulses squeezing the ring. If you want to make it a little challenging, have your palms flat, straight out.
- Side Arm Press Down
Get in a sit down position, legs crossed. Place the ring vertically beside you, and press down in a pulse rhythm.
- Side-Lying Ring Press
Get into a side plank position and place your ring on your hip. Then press down on the ring, doing those same pulses.
Inner Thigh Excersises
- The Hundred
Place your ring in between your thigh, close to your knees. Lean back on your elbows and slowly do inner thigh pulse.
- The Raised Hundred - Calf.
Lay on your back with your legs up. Put the ring in between the side of your calves. Squeeze the ring in pulses.
- The Rasied Hundred - Thigh
To engage a different muscle, move the ring down to your thigh above your knees, but in this case “below” your knees. Squeeze the ring in pulses.
Get your dancing off to a great start with these exercises! The Pilates Ring is an ideal tool for strengthening muscles to improve your dance movements. Special bonus, it's also easy enough to travel with and store away!