Lift the hips up to your high bridge.

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Summary

A Pilates instructor guides a student through a series of unilateral bridge exercises on a reformer machine. She provides specific cues for form, including hip height, shoulder blade retraction, and leg positioning.

Structure

1Introduction of the bridge position
2Instruction on arm and shoulder alignment
3Transition to single-leg tabletop
4Execution of leg extensions and pulses
5Final release and cooldown

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STEAL MY CUES Unilateral Bridge Series

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Lift the hips up to your high bridge. Nice long line in that posterior chain. Arms reach nice and long. Reach them up. Shoulders down the back. Retract those shoulder blades. Can you lift your hips any higher and bring that carriage into the stopper? Keep this connection with the back of the thigh as you bring the left leg up into tabletop. Inhale. As you exhale, lengthen that leg up toward the ceiling. Keep the hips high. Square off the hips to the ceiling. Bring that leg down to the 45. Exhale, use the top of the thigh to bring it up. Inhale it down. Exhale it up. Beautiful. Inhale it down. Exhale it up. Last one. Lift it up. Hold. Tiny pulses up. Poke the ceiling. Poke. For three. Leg longer. Two. Point harder. One. Bring that knee to tabletop. Bring it down to the footbar and bring your hips down. Arms come down. Breathe.