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Photo Reference for Beginner Pilates Reformer Workout

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Updated December 19, 2012

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Short Box Series - Flat Back with Pole
Pilates reformer short box series

Arms connected to the core, shoulders down.

(c)2011, Marguerite Ogle

The short box goes over the shoulder blocks. Feet go under the strap. 5 Reps.

Tips:
Sit up on the sitbones and think of the up the front and down the back feeling through the legs.
Be sure to keep the torso in one piece - lift up and back through the belly. Keep the arms engaged in the back and in your peripheral vision.
Inhale to go back. Exhale to come up.

If you do an intermediate workout, you can add climb a tree here, then move on to elephant.

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