Here’s a deceptively easy core exercise that quickly becomes a great challenge for your core when you focus:
Key points for this Pilates inspired exercise:
- Keep your spine aligned by resting your head on your bent arm on the floor
- The less your bottom knee is bent, the greater the challenge
- The movement of the top leg is slow and controlled
- The focus is on your core, not your leg movement – keep your trunk still as you move your leg.
As always with exercise, don’t hold your breath. You are exerting energy with both the forward and backward motion of the leg, so exhale with one motion and inhale with the other.
Finally, you’ll get more out of three to five very slow and controlled reps of this exercise, rather than 10 or 20 quick. Put a lot of focus into a small number of reps and then you’re done!
