This week, the Amazing Stickie is building on what she did last week. Swan 2 in the Pilates repertoire is an extension (pun intended!) of Swan 1. (You can find the directions for Swan 1 in last week’s post!).
Stickie gets into the starting position by lying on her belly with her hands under her shoulders. She extends her elbows and brings her gaze forward and up as if she is watching a little bug crawl away from her, ending up with arms straight and her back curved evenly between her cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine (a.k.a. her neck, torso, and lower back).
Now the fun starts. Stickie bends her elbows slightly and then lifts her hands, allowing her body to rock forward and her legs to leave the floor. In other words, she keeps the curved shape of her body and tilts the whole thing forward as if she were the rocker of a rocking horse. Then she tilts back to the starting position, stabilizing with her hands. She does this until she stops having fun or until she has completed five reps, whichever happens first.
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