Neck Pull Pilates Exercise from yoopod.com

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The Neck Pull is the modified and more challenging version of the Roll Up. If your back is loose and your abdominals are strong you may find it not too challenging, but if your back is tight (mostly the lower back) then this exercise might feel like the enemy to you… and if this is the case then you know I am talking to you right now… ;o) My tip today is borrowed from a class I have taken some time ago and I am afraid that despite my best efforts I can’t remember who I should credit for that. It is a simple yet really effective modification- from the upright position roll back only as far as you can truly come back from (without changing the arm position); stay there to take a breath in and roll back up and over the legs. An idea that will make the exercise a bit more difficult and yet will help open up the spine is to do your best to place each and every vertebrae as far back on the mat as possible- with the spaces between them as big as possible. As you roll up- visualise yourself picking the vertebrae up one at a time and make sure not to move a few of them together as one unit.