Double Leg Lifts Pilates Exercise: Channeling Inner Mermaid

Oct 14, 2012

Double Leg Lifts Pilates Exercise: Pretending You’re A Mermaid

Double Leg Lifts are a Pilates exercise that strongly works your core. By keeping your legs firmly together, you transfer most of the work toward your abs. This is more challenging than most Pilates exercises because you have to keep your legs straight. Most trainers call this the Mermaid exercise. This is because it is important for you to keep your legs straight, pretending you are a mermaid, while they are in the air. By doing an excellent job of channeling your inner mermaid, this exercise works:

Lower Abs
Quads
Glutes

Double Leg Lifts Exercise

To perform the Double Leg Lifts Pilates Exercise:

Lay down with your hands behind your head.
Inhale, and then exhale with your legs moving into a crunch position.
Extend both of your legs toward the ceiling.
Keeping your legs straight, and lower your legs to 45 degrees.
Then, bring your legs back to starting position.
Again, slowly lower your legs to 45 degrees, while inhaling.
Exhale, as you bring your legs back to starting position.

Popular Workouts

The Miley Cyrus workout uses the Double Leg Lifts Pilates exercise, as part of her Mari Winsor Pilates Routine.
The Audrina Patridge workout also uses this exercise to tone her abs, and look hot in a bathing suit.

If you like Double Leg Lifts, you can try a modification. In the video below, see how you can work your obliques by doing Side Leg Lifts:

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