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By Marguerite Ogle, About.com Guide to Pilates

Exercise of the Week: Chest Lift with Rotation

Wednesday January 7, 2009
pilates ab exerciseThis Pilates exercise is going to work all of your abdominal muscles. It is based on chest lift but the rotation brings the obliques in as well. It also challenges pelvic stability, preparing you for criss cross, one of the best ab exercises ever.
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January 7, 2009 at 6:07 pm
(1) jh says:

This exercise is great, but the criss cross is the most amazing of all, works quickly and really helps to work out a hard to reach muscle group for me. Thanks for featuring it.

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