'Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL21E032C7A15912CA - - Watch more How to Do Pilates videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/505912-How-to-Do-Double-Leg-Kicks-Pilates-Workout This intermediate mat exercise is double leg kicks. It comes after single leg kicks from the beginner mat sequence. Madeleine\'s in a rest pose for now and next you\'ll lie right on your stomach in preparation for double leg kicks. Okay. Turn your right cheek onto the mat and then bring your hands behind your back, one on top of the other and widen your elbows. The purpose of double leg kicks is to further challenge extension. Now we\'re working endurance and extension. We\'re going to add a couple more exercises in the series for strengthening and lengthening the back. Zip your legs together here and from here kick both heels to your seat three times. Kick. Kick. Kick. Lower your feet. Extend your arms low over your hips and lift your head and chest to look forward and hold it here. Then, bend your elbows to the sides. Turn your head down to the mat and kick your heels. And again. Three, two, and one. Lower the feet. Extend the arms back. Your hands are skimming the back of your hips. Then, bend your elbows and turn your head the other way. Now, with breath. Press the feet down. Inhale in this position. Then, exhale as you bend the elbows and kick, kick, kick. Inhale on extension. Hold it here. Exhale. Bend the elbows and kick, kick, kick. Last time, inhale, extend the arms. Hold it. Widen your collarbone. Stretch the abdominals from the pubic bone all the way up to the chin. Then, exhale. Bend the elbows and turn your cheek toward the mat. From here you can go back into rest pose. If your back is bothering you, you can do rest pose after any one of these extension exercises or you can opt to do it at the end of the series. It\'s totally up to you. That is the double leg kicks.'
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