How to be a Better Xformer Pilates Instructor or Lagree Instructor (timing, cues, and routine formulation)

When I started out as a new instructor, using the timer, figuring out what to say, and formulating routines was a challenge. That's why I'd like to help all of you!

{FIRST}What is the "2-minute Method
- each exercise in your full routine will be 2 minutes each
- 1 minute full range, 30 seconds (holds, pulses, and/or challenges), finishing with 30 seconds full range

Note: this doesn't mean that you can pick any exercises, teach them each for 2 minutes, and think it's going to work. You need to be mindful of people's wrists, shoulders, lower back, hips, and more. It's also important to be mindful of how many exercises are being performed at the front of the back in a row.

For example: If you were to teach 4 ab or leg exercises at the back in a row with each being 2 minutes, this may be too difficult and agitage people in different parts of their body.

Another example: Too many exercises or the wrist can agitage wrists and too many exercises on the forearms can irritate the shoulders. Also, too many core stabilizing exercises may exhaust the core so much that the hips and lower back start to take over. 

Therefore, I strongly encourage instructors to workout to their blocks and routines to experience what it feels like. I also encourage instructors to decrease or increase the standard spring load of each exercise to feel what it's like for a new or newer client.

If it's a light spring exercise at the front, make it zero springs.- Platform Lunge- Single Leg Squat- Carriage Lunge- Ab Wheel- Saw- Plank to Pike- Panther
If it's a heavy spring exercise, add on additional springs:- Donkey Kick- Sprinter's Lunge- Side Kick- Skater

{SECOND}
How to Cue in a Way that's Simple to Understand- Explain the location of the muscle group when using an anatomical term

For example:- "your heel, the back of your foot"- "your tricep, the back of your arm"- "your hamstring, the back of your leg"- "your hip flexors, AKA your groin"- "your scapula", AKA your shoulder blades"

- Use simple words for movements of the body
For example: - push out, pull in- slide back, slide forward- down and up- bend, lengthen / extend

{THIRD}
Reach out with any questions and if you're interested in E.S.C.P. Level 2 Training

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E.S.C.P. Level 2 Training
- Advancing the use of the "2-minute Method"
- Advanced Routine Formulation
- New Exercises

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