If your clients were asked about something you constantly remind them to do or preach, what would that be?
Constantly remind your clients to hold the "jewel" in their belly button- this is a cue to engage their transversus abdominus, the deepest of the four abdominal muscles, and provide core stability. Transcript: "If your clients were asked about something you constantly, remind them to do or preach, what would that be? It would be to hold the jewel in the belly button. That's the cue, I use for everybody in order to make sure that their transversus abdominus is engaged. Right? So that transversus abdominus is the deepest of your for abdominal muscles. It helps to provide core stability, the way to get engaged is an ideal flattening, the abdominal wall. So I always tell them to use the Q. Imagine you're holding a jewel or a marble. Herbal in your belly button, and whenever I see some instability, I remind them to hold the jewel. I asked them the question when they're doing something saying, what do you think the iwi would be telling you to do right now and they're like, I got a hold the jewel. So that's, that's the one thing. I always remind them to do all the jewel in your belly button. Transversus abdominus is engaged your core is stable, and you can do anything."
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Carol Earle
Pilates Instructor and Movement Specialist
If your clients were asked about something you constantly, remind them to do or preach, what would that be? It would be to hold the jewel in the belly button. That's the cue, I use for everybody in order to make sure that their transversus abdominus is engaged. Right? So that transversus abdominus is the deepest of your for abdominal muscles. It helps to provide core stability, the way to get engaged is an ideal flattening, the abdominal wall. So I always tell them to use the Q. Imagine you're holding a jewel or a marble. Herbal in your belly button, and whenever I see some instability, I remind them to hold the jewel. I asked them the question when they're doing something saying, what do you think the iwi would be telling you to do right now and they're like, I got a hold the jewel. So that's, that's the one thing. I always remind them to do all the jewel in your belly button. Transversus abdominus is engaged your core is stable, and you can do anything.
Cheryl Alden, PT
Pilates based physical therapist, instructor/trainer
If your clients were asked about something you constantly, remind them to do a preach. What would that be breathe? Just breathe and inhales flow into exhales. When I teach Pilates, sometimes with exercises get hard, people start holding their breath to get through the movement and we just want that flow of inhale into an exhale. A lot of times we use the inhale as we extend to open up through the chest, because the spine wants to Really extend when we inhale, when we exhale, sometimes, we use that flexion component or just to engage the, the muscles to help create that stability that we need in order to get movement in other places. So, definitely breathing would be something that my clients would say that I constantly remind them to do.