Learn to Run Week 3: Condition to Run
Happy Mother’s day and Happy week three of The Pilates Studio’s Learn to run series. My hope is that people are starting to feel the added strength in the tissues around the hips. As well as the mobility in the hip sockets and thoracic spine. In the next weeks we will begin to focus on hip extension and ankle mobility… But more importantly it seems like Everyone is getting in condition to r
un! YAY! You’ll see the videos for the home work below, but I also wanted to share with you this picture of the organized chaos of our conditioning circuits. To me a great workout is when I see the smiles I saw today!
Happy Mother’s day and Happy week three of The Pilates Studio’s Learn to run series. My hope is that people are starting to feel the added strength in the tissues around the hips. As well as the mobility in the hip sockets and thoracic spine. In the next weeks we will begin to focus on hip extension and ankle mobility… But more importantly it seems like Everyone is getting in condition to run! YAY! You’ll see the videos for the home work below, but I also wanted to share with you this picture of the organized chaos of our conditioning circuits. To me a great workout is when I see the smiles I saw today!
Four corners of getting into condition to run. Hip Strength, Rotational control, Thoracic mobility, and motor control.
You all are doing so well, and that simply makes might heart swell. Maybe its mother’s day, or maybe it’s spring, or maybe seeing us all get stronger together just makes me so so happy…
Okay enough sappy stuff…Here’s your conditioning homework
There are four exercises this week. First, as we continue to work on thoracic mobility and hip extension we have the lunge with the dowel (the broomstick works great too) Remember reaching up into your arms as much as possible and at the same time pushing down into the knee!
Once we have the added mobility, we want to find the control of that mobility. We can achieve this with thigh stretch and the added dowel. Go for the shakes with this one! How far can you go back?
Next we have the hip mobility exercise with the mermaid…We’ve been doing this one since the very beginning class because it is just so important for the mobility of the hip socket!
And finally for rotational control we have the side plank! YAY! (I type yay because the side plank is so hard but if you yell YAY every time you lift your hips, it feels slightly easier.)
And of course as always the more pliable your feet the better so please feel free to keep doing the foot exercises from the previous week’s exercises.
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