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5 Minute Wrist Strengthening
5 minute wrist strengthening. Strengthen your wrists to prevent injury and fractures with this five minute Pilates strengthening workout.
Balance your wrist to balance your shoulder.
5 minute wrist stretches. Stretch and rest your tight wrists from all your typing and scrolling.
Get into the Thanksgiving flow.
Simple Pilates on the chair flow series. Pilates inspired work at your chair to get the blood pumping. Perfect boost when you're feeling sluggish.
Scrolling got your down? Stop the slump
Help posture and health with these upper back exercises.
Was your mom wrong all those years?
You can alleviate shoulder tension and reset your shoulders without even getting up for your chair. This “shoulders down” programming can strain the nerve plexus of your shoulders; create excessive strain on your rotator cuff; put too much pull on the muscles that connect your neck and shoulders.
If you’ve been told “you’ve got tight hip flexors…”
Simple hip stretches on your chair can help with those desk induced hip and lower back aches and pains. Increase hip mobility and loosen up your lower back. Also, it’s a great way to restore some circulation of blood and lymph from the abdomen through the hips into the feet.
Push Up Hack
Love a good Pilates push-up! When you’ve had an intense day and need an outlet, get to the wall and do this! It’s always empowering to feel your physical strength. Push-ups and planks are a great way to find that power, but they can be intense on the wrists, neck, and shoulders (or maybe you don’t have time to get the mat out). Try them at the wall for a quick reset for your body and your mind.
Do this before your next cardio workout
Continuing our Pilates on the wall series with these squats with arm work! You may often feel a little like you have T-Rex arms from typing on your computer and devices, but arm mobility is important to your overall posture and alignment, not to mention the effect it has on the lungs. Today you get to move your arms! In this quick series, you maximize your time by adding arm work to your wall squat leg work. All you need is a theraband and physioball or small exercise ball.