UNDER 15 MIN
When you have very little time but you don't want to give up to your workout. Sometimes one hour to dedicate to your workout is a luxury, these shorter workouts have the purpose to get you moving in less than 15 minutes so that you can feel better, energized and ready to kill the day!
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Foot Focus Level 1 Workout A - 8 min
Level 1 - Pace: Moderate
If you are new to working out the feet or simply new to the use of Rescue LOOP, this is the first workout to start with. Level 1 workout A is part of the FOOT FOCUS program that develops over 9 weeks and that will help you increase the range of motion, strength and coord... -
Waist, hips and arms - 13 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
Perfect quick workout to get into waist, hips and arms when you have little time for it!
Accelerate the pace and the reps if you want to make it more intense, just make sure your form is proper and safe! -
Hips & adductors - 9 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
Quick and to the point! When you have 10 minutes, and you want to keep your hips in shape! The glute medius (outer hip) is opposite and synergic to the inner thigh muscles: that’s why this little combo is even more effective and powerful! -
The 100: Abs Killing workout - 12 min
Open Level - Pace: moderate
Do you only have a few minutes, but you want to feel your abs and work them deep? This is perfect for you! The 100 and the abdominal series are iconic sections of the Pilates Mat and believe me, they get to the CORE in a deep and intense (good intense) way! -
Quick Stretch - 8 min
Level 2 - Pace: slow
Stretching is very important, mostly after training or after running and playing sports. This is just a quick flow for when you have very little time, but you don’t want to skip it! -
Intro Rescue LOOP - 13 min
Level 1 - Pace: Slow
Rescue LOOP can sometimes be intimidating but this video will show and teach you the most important placements, movements and exercises so that you can get started with it and feel more comfortable when we use it in more advanced classes. -
Breathing: Relaxation - 11 min
Open level - Pace: Slow
One of the most important muscles for respiration is the diaphragm. The diaphragm is the biggest and most powerful muscle of the human body, but it’s often ignored and played down because we don’t see it…
We go to the gym to strengthen muscles like glutes and biceps (to lo... -
Fire Your Glutes! - 4 min
Level 1 - Pace: Slow
The glutes are so important for our postural alignment.
This a quick routine that you can easily jump into when you know that you have a little time available and you want to work on your pelvis. -
Shoulder: proper movement - 8 min
Open level - Pace: Slow
These drills are great to warm up the shoulders before a class, while rehabbing from little tears and inflammation and also to get ready for your “A” game. The 5-point shoulder de-coaptation, scapulae mobilization and some stretching with the towel will help you safely ach... -
The Ab Series (Romana's) - 3 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
In Joseph Pilates book we only find 2 exercises of what we today call the “abdominal series”: the single leg bent, and the double leg bent. Romana, seeing that people needed to strengthen the core added three exercises: the single straight leg, the double straight leg and... -
Glutes with Rescue LOOP - 15 min
Level 1 - Pace: Moderate
I love hip extensions, squats, Romanian, shoulder bridges, sidekicks, single leg balance and jumps… but we can get into the pelvis and its reinforcement also with Rescue LOOP.
Place the feet in the foot strap and let’s connect that spring resistance to the pelvis! -
The Teaser Breakdown - 13 min
Level 2 - Pace: Slow
The Pilates Teaser is often times misunderstood. Like the 100, it’s iconic for the method and it’s feared for its complexity of strength, flexibility and coordination. Come and break it down with me so that everything will make more sense and most importantly it will feel bet... -
Mat with Rescue LOOP L1 - 11 min
Level 1 - Pace: Moderate
This is the perfect video to get familiar with the use of Rescue LOOP during the Pilates Mat. You will feel how the work deepens thanks to the spring resistance of the LOOP. Enjoy this extra stability and short sequence before you dive into longer and more advanced mat ro... -
The Wall L1 - 5 min
Level 1 - Pace: Slow
The Pilates wall is a great ending and the perfect place to develop an awareness for postural alignment. Get used to ending your session standing up! -
Side Sit Ups - 2 min
Level 1 - Pace: Slow
Do you have access to a fully equipped Pilates studio? Side sit ups are great oblique strengthening exercises! -
ELDOA L5-S1 - 4 min
Level 1 - Pace: Slow
Do you have 1 minute? This is the magic bullet! If you have time for only 1 ELDOA each day, do this one! L5-S1 is where we start compensating from all issues and unevenness going on in the lower limbs: releasing this link is great for EVERYONE. -
Goodnight ELDOA - 12 min
Open Level - Pace: Slow
This is the perfect amount of time to dedicate to ELDOA before bedtime! Bring your leg up on the wall, read a couple of pages of your favorite book and follow me for the next 10 minutes: lumbar spine, cervical spine and breathing. -
Rescue LOOP at the wall! - 10 min
Level 1 - Pace: Slow
This is a great opportunity to work the feet with a transcendental reference and also de-compress and release the back. It’s an anti-gravity foot workout, perfect at the end of the day when we start building tension at the lumbar spine, shoulders and neck area. -
General Cervical ELDOA - 12 min
Open Level - Pace: Slow
In this class we prepare the shoulder and neck area with a gentle osteo-articular warm up to then flow in all the cervical ELDOA positions without specifically focusing on any of them. Perfect quick break from the desk or restorative picker upper at the end of the day. -
9 Parts of the Abs - 9 min
Level 2 - Pace: Fast
This is a unique series of ab exercises to improve the motility of the large intestine. It’s great for constipation, irregularity, colitis and other offset conditions related to digestion. On top of inducing regularity, it’s also a great abdominal reinforcement! It’s quick an... -
Safe Arching with Rescue LOOP - 13 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
This quick progression will show you how a few targeted exercises, together with the use of Rescue LOOP, will help you to arch your back (in a swan for example) without feeling any pressure at the lower back: the correct spinal articulation, the ability to open up the hip... -
General ELDOA - 5 min
Level 2 - Pace: Slow
General ELDOA is the only ELDOA in motion. Instead of a still posture we execute three cycles of movements. This ELDOA is for the whole spine: it acts on the dura mater and the fascia of the spinal cord. It’s great as a general warm up for ELDOA and before getting into specif... -
Kids ELDOA - 5 min
Open level - Pace: Slow
We have a specific ELDOA for kids that are too young to coordinate so many details and actions. This exercise is great for all kids but most importantly it can help a kid manage a scoliosis that is escalating during growth spurts.