Reformer Foot Series
Sarah Todd (Unite Health Management Director & Qualified Pilates Instructor) demonstrates the APPI reformer foot series.
Exercises: Foot Series
- Heels
- Toes
- First position
- Lift & lower
- Place finger tips on hip bones to help monitor and control your neutral pelvic alignment
- Allow the legs to full extend but don't lock the knees, the movement should be fluid.
- Ensure correct set-up for clients, eg: length of the reformer bed adjusted for height. Head rest up or down dependant on head and neck placement.
- Vary your resistance - see how this movement feels with higher or lower springs
- Ribcage flaring
- Tension in the upper body, shoulders & neck
- Anterior or posterior tilt of the pelvis
- Rotation or lateral tilting of the pelvis
- Locking on knees
- Vary your foot series by increasing or decreasing the load of springs
- Add ball, block or circle in-between the inner thighs or ankles to assist with alignment
- Practise movements in inner range only to focus on VMO and VL timing
- Practise movement in outer range only, this is really functional for clients/athletes who have to squat due to work.