How To Do Full Body Roll-Up

Full body roll-ups are an exercise that strengthens your core and helps lengthen and stretch your back and hamstrings. The full range of motion used in this exercise engages more muscle fibers than many core exercises.

If you learn how to do full body roll-ups you will be learning one of the most standard pilates exercises there is.

How To Do Full Body Roll-Ups

Follow these simple instructions to master the full body roll-up move:

1. Start lying on mat with arms extended overhead, legs long, and feet flexed.
2. Inhale as you lift arms up and begin curling chin and chest forward. Exhale as you roll the entire torso up and over legs keeping abs engaged and reaching for toes.
3. Inhale as you begin rolling your spine back down one vertebra at a time and exhale as the upper portion of the back lower and arms reach pack overhead.  Repeat moving slowly and using the abdominals to lift and lower, not momentum.

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2) Inhale as you lift arms up and begin curling chin and chest forward. Exhale as you roll the entire torso up and over legs keeping abs engaged and reaching for toes.

3) Inhale as you being rolling your spine back down one vertebrae at a time and exhale as the upper portion of the back lower and arms reach pack overhead. Repeat moving slowly and using the abdominals to lift and lower, not momentum.”]

What Muscles Do Full Body Roll-Ups Work?

Full Body Roll Up is an awesome core strength move that works your abdominal muscles, lower back and stabilizers and stretches your entire backside.

Benefits of Full Body Roll-Ups

There are many reasons you should incorporate Full Body Roll-Up into your workouts. Here are just a few:

Healthier Low Back

The Full Body Roll Up is a move that focuses on stability, strength and overall health of your core and low back. In addition, this move stretches the muscles of the lower back keeping them more flexible. Moves like the Full Body Roll Up will help you avoid low back pain and injury by keeping the muscles that surround your spine strong and flexible.

Sculpts Your Abs

There are so many exercises available for getting sculpted abs. Crunches, planks and all of their variations are the most commonly used. Full Body Roll Up is unique. This move gives you a new and fresh option for sculpting your abs! Based in Pilates, you will find that this move is extremely effective but also feels good while you’re doing it!

Improves Flexibility

The Full Body Roll Up is great for strengthening your core, but it is also an excellent stretch for the entire backside of your body. You stretch your hamstrings, lower back and upper back with the slow, controlled motion.

How Many Calories Do Full Body Roll-Ups Burn?

People often ask how many calories they are burning in their workouts. Most exercises will generally burn about 100 calories for every 10 minutes you are working at high intensity. Bottom line – the harder you work, the more calories you burn. But keep in mind that the Full Body Roll Up has benefits that far outweigh burning calories.

Other Exercises Similar to Full Body Roll-Ups

If you like the Full Body Roll Up and the results you get from it, here are a few more exercises you might want to try.

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Incorporating Full Body Roll-Ups Into Your Workouts

Full Body Roll Up is an amazing core exercise all on its own! However, you could also incorporate Full Body Roll Up into other workouts to mix them up. Here are some ideas to make that happen.

Use Full Body Roll-Ups In A Core Strength Workout 

It only takes 4 or 5 good moves to get a complete core workout and cover virtually every muscle group in your mid-section. The Full Body Roll Up is incorporated into this next workout that will do just exactly that!

Sculpted Core In 10 Minutes Workout

• Full Body Roll Up – 1 minute
• Forearm plank – Hold 30 seconds
• Modified Side Plank Crunch – 30 seconds right, 30 seconds left
• Scissors – 30 seconds
• Oblique Crunch – 30 seconds right, 30 seconds left
• Sweeping Scissors – 1 minute
• Half Roll Back – 1 minute
• Double Leg Stretch – 1 minute
• Plank to Balance Plank – 1 minute
• Forearm Side Plank – 30 seconds right, 30 seconds left
• Full Body Roll Up 1 minute

Use Full Body Roll-Ups in Your Yoga Practice

Yoga is such a good workout not only for your flexibility, but for your overall strength and core training. Incorporating the full body roll-up into your yoga practice adds spinal flexibility and core training. Try this short morning yoga series at home:

Quick Yoga Wake-Up To Start Your Day

• Happy Baby Pose
• Windshield Wiper – 3 times each side
• Full Body Roll Up
• Cat-Cow- (5 repetitions)
• Downward dog – Plank – Chaturanga – Upward Dog – (repeat series 5 times)
• Crescent Lunge Right – Warrior 2 – Reverse Warrior
• Downward dog – Plank – Chaturanga – Upward Dog –Downward Dog
• Crescent Lunge Left – Warrior 2 – Reverse Warrior
• Downward dog – Plank – Chaturanga – Upward Dog –Downward Dog
• Child’s Pose

Use Full Body Roll-Ups In a Pilates Workout

Full body roll up comes from the Pilates method. Pilates teaches you all about core stability and strength. It’s more than just getting a flat tummy. It’s all about having a strong center, protecting your back and –yes-flattening your belly. Here is a short pilates workout to try at home.

Pilates Please!

• Half Roll Back – 10 times
• Pilates 100 – use the breath given and count to 100
• Swimming – use the breath given and count
• Double Leg Stretch – 10 times
• Bicycle – 1 minute
• Scissors – 1 minute
• Full Body Roll Up -6-8 times

Here are 3 more workouts that incorporate the Full Body Roll Up!

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Targets: core, shoulders, back