Tip to Toe Pilates Workout with 10 Beginner Exercises

By Marguerite Ogle, About.com Guide

Updated October 17, 2011

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1. Continue on your back with your legs bent, legs parallel. Open your knees a little more.
   
   
2. Inhale.
   
   
3. Exhale: You can use your hands behind your legs to help you as you do a head nod, knit your ribs together in front and deepen the scoop of your abdominal muscles to curl your upper body off the floor. Keep the lower part of your body still.
   
   
4. Inhale: Roll your spine back down on the floor like you were laying a pearl necklace down, bead by bead. Use abdominal control. As you go down your arms arc over head to begin the exercise again.
   
   
5. Repeat 5 times.