# Pilates Hundred

URL: https://heatsy.app/ex/pilates-hundred

Also known as: The Hundred, Hundreds, Pilates The Hundred, Hundred, Pilates 100, 100s, Pilates Hundreds, The 100

Body region: Core

## Muscles

- Main: Rectus Abdominis
- Helps: Transversus Abdominis, Iliopsoas
- Holds: Serratus Anterior, External Oblique, Internal Oblique

## Technique

1. Lie on your back with your legs raised in a tabletop position or extended at a low diagonal, then curl your head and shoulders off the mat.
2. Reach your arms long by your sides, hovering just above the floor with palms down.
3. Pump your arms in small, quick beats while inhaling for five counts and exhaling for five counts.
4. Continue until you reach one hundred beats, then lower down.

### Cues

- Press the lower back into the mat.
- Keep the legs higher if the back lifts.

### Common mistakes

- Letting the lower back arch as the legs lower.
- Straining the neck forward.
- Holding the breath.

## Alternatives

- [Hollow Body Hold](https://heatsy.app/ex/hollow-body-hold)
- [Dead Bug](https://heatsy.app/ex/dead-bug)