March Matness 2016: The Push Up

A push up is a push up right? Like many of the movements and exercises in the Pilates Mat work the Push Up is not “new”. Joseph Pilates did not create the Push Up, but he made it more than a push up when he sequenced it with the rest of the Pilates Mat work and incorporated the Pilates principles and ideas into the exercise.  A Pilates Push Up starts by rolling down through your spine, unrolling your spine as you gracefully walk out into a plank, doing your Push Ups ( with perfect form of course!) and then rolling up through your spine to walk back to your legs and rolling up through your spine to finish your Pilates Mat work standing tall, strong and aligned so you can leave your workout feeling so much more alive and energized than when you started! There is something quite empowering about completing a Pilates Mat workout and mustering up enough control, strength and balance to finish strong with this challenging exercise!