The Hundred

This essential move is almost always included in a Pilates warm-up. The hundred strengthens your core by requiring your back muscles and abdominals to work together.

By Maggie Niemiec

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The Hundred

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Directions:

1. Lie with your back flat on the floor, shoulders down. Point your feet and lengthen your body, leading the stretch with the top of your head.

2. Keeping your back flat on the floor, raise both your legs and head off the floor. Be sure to keep your neck neutral and chin tucked.

3. Keeping arms extended, begin to lift and lower them about two inches from the floor, breathing in on the lift and out on the lower.

4. Do this for 5 up-and-down beats. Repeat 10 times until you have done a "hundred."

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