视频欣赏

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Step : You will need
1 exercise mat or thick towel
comfortable clothing
1 small towel

Exercise 1: Abdominal Prep
Step 1: To prepare
Lie down on your mat or towel with your knees bent at a 45º angle and your feet a little less than hip-distance apart. Have your arms on the floor by your sides, palms facing down.

Pay special attention to your lower back. Don't have it flat on the floor, or over-arched.

Try and find a neutral position, with a small curve in the lower back, and avoid tilting the pelvis towards or away from you.

Step 2: Breathing
You will inhale deeply through the nose to prepare, aiming the breath towards the back of the rib cage and exhale deeply through the mouth. When you exhale, think of flattening the abdominal region. Imagine gently pulling your belly button towards your spine. This first exercise will be performed in four breaths.

Step 3: The exercise
Inhale and gently lengthen the back of your neck, lowering your chin down but not jamming it in. As you exhale, scoop in your abdominals and reach your hands towards your feet, curling your upper back off the floor until you can feel your muscles tense.

Inhale here, breathing into your rib cage, now exhale and gently, controlling the movement, roll back down to the mat relaxing your neck at the end.

Repeat this eight times. You will feel your central and lower abdominals working.

If during the exercise you feel a strain on your neck, put your hands behind your head to support. Keep the elbows wide and don't pull on your neck.

Exercise 2: The Hundred
Step 1: To prepare
Stay lying in the same position, but join your feet and knees together and gently flatten your lower back down to the floor without squeezing your backside.

You're going to be beating your hands up and down while you perform this Pilates exercise, just as Sophie is showing you now. Practise this action before continuing.

Step 2: Breathing
Here the breathing is very different from before.

The same principles apply but you are going to inhale and exhale to prepare for the exercise then inhale and exhale over the count of ten while beating your hands.

The sequence will sound like this: inhale, 2, 3, 4, 5, exhale 2, 3, 4, 10 inhale 2, 3, 4, 5 exhale, 2, 3, 4, 20 and so on, all the way to one hundred.

Step 3: The exercise
Inhale and gently lengthen the back of your neck, lowering your chin down but not jamming it in.

As you exhale, curl your upper back off the floor, scooping in your abdominals. Draw your shoulders down and reach your hands off the floor and towards your feet.

Then breathe in for five while lightly beating your hands up and down and breathe out for five continuing to beat.

Continue like this until you reach 100! Maintaining your own constant rhythm as you go. If you find you're getting tired quite quickly then take a short break after 50 and then finish.

You will feel all your abdominal muscles working.

Exercise 3: Obliques
Step 1: To prepare
Adjust your feet to hip distance apart and place your hands behind your head, with your elbows wide and shoulders down.

Step 2: Breathing
The breathing is the same as in exercise one but here we will use two breaths.

Step 3: The exercise
Inhale to prepare, as you exhale, contract your abdominal muscles, flex your upper body off the floor and keeping your elbows wide, reach your left side towards your right knee.

Inhale to return to the centre, resting your head back on the mat, exhale, and repeat to the other side.

Do this 10 times in total, five times to each side. You will feel the sides of your stomach - your oblique muscles- working.

When you finish the series relax your arms back down onto the mat.

Exercise 4: The Dead Bug
Step 1: To prepare
If necessary, adjust your back to keep it flat on the floor.

Inhale to prepare and as you exhale, gently pick one foot off the floor followed by the other to a tabletop position then turn your palms to the ceiling. This is the dead bug position.

Pay attention to your lower back throughout the exercise. Don't let it overarch.

Step 2: Breathing
The breathing is the same as in the previous exercise.

Step 3: The exercise
Inhale to prepare, then as you exhale, contract your abdominal muscles and simultaneously lower the right leg towards the floor, keeping it bent.

Inhale to return, then exhale and repeat on the other side.

Do this exercise eight times in total - four times each side. You will feel your lower abdominal muscles working.

When you finish, slowly bring one foot then the other back down to the floor and relax by hugging your knees into your chest.

词汇讲解

【词汇讲解】

1.abdominal adj. 腹部的

如：Relating to or situated on or close to the abdomen; abdominal.
腹的; 腹部的; 腹面的关于或位于或邻近腹部的; 腹部的

She had abdominal pains yesterday.
她昨天腹痛。

2.scoop vt. 汲取,舀取,抢先报道,挖空

如：Scoop out the pulp and serve it with sugar.
把果肉挖出来和糖一起食用.

She scooped all the national newspapers to get the story.
她抢在全国各报之前发表了这一消息。

3.squeeze　vt. 紧握,挤压,使经济困难

如：It took some ingenuity to squeeze all the furniture into the little room.
把全部家具都塞进那个小房间是很费了一番心思的。

We managed to get all the luggage into the car but it was a tight squeeze.
我们总算把行李都塞进汽车里了, 不过挤得要命.

4.flatten　v. 变单调, 变平, 打倒

如：Flatten the dough with a press of the hand.
用手把生面团压平.

The graph flattens out gradually after a steep fall.
图表上的曲线突降之後逐渐趋於平稳.

5.oblique adj. 间接的,斜的，拐弯抹角的，不光明正大的

如：The tendency to grow at an oblique or horizontal angle. Used of roots, stems, or branches.
斜向性向倾斜或与水平成角度的方向生长的倾向。用于植物的根、茎或枝

A slanted or oblique surface.
斜面一个倾的或倾斜的平面

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