- Difficulty: Advanced
- Equipment Needed: High Chair (I love using the Balanced Body Wunda Chair High Back.)
- Reps: 5-10 beats
- Warning: Not ideal for some shoulder issues.
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Press Up Front Advanced on the High Chair
Press Up Front on the Pilates High Chair has an advancement that will challenge your Press Ups and include your best Pilates Swan! If you have been working your Press Up Front on the High Chair and you love Pull Straps on the Reformer, or Swan on the Mat give this advancement a try. It will challenge the connections of your arms to your back while also making your work from your center. Try this from the choreography and all you’ll feel is your joints and body swinging. Work from your center and feel like you’re about to take flight!
Reach your tailbone down while lifting your heart up to lengthen spine.
-Lesley Logan
The advancement of Press Up Front is best done after you have completed 3-5 Press Up Fronts. You want to use the Press Ups to connect your arms to your back. To work your reach into the pedal. Pull the pedal down to step up on to the pedal with hands on the handles. Without leaning forward reach into the handles as you reach into the pedal and work yourself up. Bend your elbows as you reach your heart up and reach your legs down. After your final rep press up and close the spring.
Once the spring is closed take both feet off the pedal and reach them long towards the floor from your center. Work your tailbone long towards your heels as you lift your heart up and your shoulders down. Once you feel steady at the top open your legs and close them. Beat the legs open and closed 5-10x. Then place your feet back on the pedal, bend your elbows and lower the pedal and yourself back to the floor. With your hands on the handles place one foot to the floor then with the other foot lift the pedal to close the spring. Once the spring is closed then you can take your other foot and hand off. Or, if you prefer to do Press Up Reverse once you have lowered the pedal down turn around on the pedal to transition for the Reverse.
Be sure to check out more of my Pilates High Chair exercises. I want to help you continue your Pilates High Chair training!