Equipment has to start "at ease" in order to facilitate "eccentric"
Tthe more you travel the more you see equipment with design flaws.
In this video you get insight about this and get a hint of the difference between pilates and gyro equipment.
Short Spine
The Short Spine exercise is done on the Reformer in preparation for doing the Roll Over on the mat. It is more easily accomplished in the Short Spine because the straps attached to your feet connect to springs that make you lighter. The Short Spine becomes the Overhead when the straps attach to your hands instead of your feet, acting as a more removed indirect means of support.
Reaching the axis running through your ears away from the axis running through your shoulders is a key aspect to getting the eccentric and fluorescent qualities you are looking for from the exercise.
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The Spider
The Spider comes from a session I had with a rock climber who maintained his breath did not influence his strength. He was, of course, built like the material he loved to climb--built like a rock.
That night I kept seeing him in my mind's eye, like a spider, clinging to the rock. and this was the advent of tandem reformer exercises--like the spider. the image below only shows one reformer because that's all I have in my studio, but usually it is done with another reformer in parallel, feet positioned like hands. Inhale out, exhale home.
Just leg pull front, and leg pull on the mat, and control push up front and control push up on the reformer, spider front and spider extend the equipment's ability to find fluorescence.
Spider front
Spider
