blogilates! Dancer’s Body Pilates Workout with Julianne Hough
Hey guys. So today’s video is so special to me because I got to workout with someone that I honestly never thought that I would have the chance to work out with you guys. Today’s workout video is Pilates with Julianne Huff. I wrote an Instagram post about this, but if you didn’t read it, basically I started following Julian Huff from Dancing with the Stars like way back in 2007. My sister and I used to have a huge crush on Apollo Anton Ono speed skater. Basically, we went to go see a live taping of Dancing with the Stars. And Apollo’s partner was Julian Huff. And from that moment in 2007, I became obsessed with her. Um, well, not like in a creepy way, but you know, I just like I love dancers. I think they’re just so amazing what they can do with their bodies. It’s so so cool. Then Finnon, the app that I’m in, um, called and was like, “Hey, do you want to work out with Julian Huff and teach her some Pilates?” I was like, “Are you kidding me?” Of course. So that happened and basically that is today’s video. So if you’re ready, let’s work out. [Music] I am so excited that we have a special guest here today. This is Julianne, my new friend. Hey you guys, I’m going to take Julianne through a full body Pilates workout. Are you excited? I’m so excited. I love Pilates so much, but I love you even more. So, this is like double whammy. Um, I love you even more. We just need to get that straight, which is just a love zest. It’s a love vest. I’ve been following Julian like forever, so this is literally a dream come true. I don’t think you understand, but I am so excited right now. Well, the feeling is mutual. I’m very excited. Yay. Okay, so we’re going to take all that energy and put it into our Pilates work today, you guys. We’ve got 20 minutes. We’re going to do full body, arms, legs, booty, thighs, uh abs, the whole situation. You ready? I’m so excited. Okay, cool. Going to start out with pla squats, which I feel like Julian, you’re like the master of pers. So you guys, what you’re going to do here is bring your legs out wider than hipwidth apart, toes di um diagonally out, arms out, shoulders rolled back, open, chest, belly button in, and I want you to squat down into that pa, and then lift up. Okay, basic. We’re just going to get started like so. Look at those beautiful pla squats. You’ve been doing that your entire life. I entire life. Okay, you guys. So, this is just to warm up your legs. Making sure that belly button is in, tailbone is tucked, shoulders away from the ears. But to make it a little bit more fun, we’re going to go into an up down down PA, which means we’re going to play with the heels here. So check it out. We’re going to go up up down down up up down down. So this is really going to activate the inner thighs as well as the calves. How you feeling, Julianne? So good. I’m already burning. I love it. Good. Well, I’m gonna have to work Julian really hard because I know she’s super strong. Especially with these like types of Pilates movements, I feel like you understand them. So, I’m going to push her extra hard, which means I’m going to push you extra hard. Good. Okay. A little bit more. And hold both of the heels up. Okay. Now, bring your arms in front. Okay. Shoulders rolling back. Now, I want you to press. Press. Press. Right there. Perfect. You feel those inner thighs? Oh, yeah. All right, you guys. Make sure to hold that core nice and tight. Chest forward. Keep pressing. Heels up. Now, if the heels are making you kind of wobble, you can place them down if you want, but really keep that chest open and keep pressing down. Okay, let’s get a little lower. There it is. We like that burn. Oh, yeah. And then Julian’s going to basically uh torture me in her kery workout. And No torture. Just not torture. It’ll be fine. It’ll be fine. Down. Down. Down. Give me five. 4 3 2 one. Bring it up. Do you feel it? Oh yeah. Good. Now we’re going to head into normal normal squats. Okay. Just to warm up the legs before we get into the Pilates. So legs hipwidth apart, you guys. Pressing the heels, arms here, and simple squatting down. And lift and low and lift. Keeping that chest nice and high. Good stuff, you guys. A little bit more right here. Just getting that movement in. Heels down, chest open. Now, I want you to sit. Okay, now it’s time to pulse. You ready? Pulse. Pulse it. Pulse. Pulse. I love me a good pulse. I do too. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I feel like I’m like moving. I’m moving. I’m booty popping. Booty popping. Booty popping. You just can’t leave the booty popping stage. Oh my gosh, the legs are burning hard. Oh yeah. Oh yes, you guys. Get a little bit lower for me. Oh man. Oh, you got it, you guys. Press, press, press. You’re doing so good. All right, give me five, four, three, two. Hold it. Oh, hold it. Get down a little lower. Hold it. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. 5 4 3 2 lift. Oh my gosh. Good job. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Now we’re down onto the floor, you guys. Let’s get ready for roll-ups. So, I want you to bring your legs forward, hands forward, and slowly roll down with control vertebrae by vertebrae. Beautiful. Okay, you guys. So, I want you to bring your heels together, point your toes, and lengthen your spine with your arms long behind you. Now, inhale through your nose. On the big exhale, I want you to slowly roll your spine up off of the mat. Beautiful. And then sitting super tall. Oo, touching toes. And then coming back. We really do love each other. We We do. Tozosies. Also, I’m loving our color coordination right now. We’re like little popsicles. We are like popsicles. Oh my gosh. I’d be like strawberry flavored. How about you? What’s blue? Like blue raspberry. Blue raspberry. There you go. That was quick. I was like, um, spirulina. I don’t know. Hey, spirulina’s good. And go ahead and lift up. You guys are going to exhale as you lift. Inhale as you curl that spine down onto the floor, lifting really, really tall. And if you need to, you guys, you can hold on to your thighs to help get yourself up like so. That is another option that you can take. Okay, one more. Lifting really, really tall. And go ahead and relax onto the mat. Good stuff. Okay, now we’re going to head into our single straight leg stretch. So Julian, go ahead and bring your right knee into your chest and lengthen that leg. Grab behind your ankle near your calf. Now with the head positioning, we’re going to head into Pilates stance. So that means you’re going to lift up your head, neck, and shoulders. Perfect. So that your head’s pretty much just floating on top of your um shoulders. Now we’re going to do a pull pull switch. Making sure that bottom leg is lifted as well. Okay. So here it is. It’s a pull pull switch. It’s an exhale exhale switch. There we go. Good. Beautiful. So, make sure your belly button is pressed into your spine. Make sure the spine is pressed into the mat, the lower back. Switch. Switch. Couple more. Pull. I love the breath. Yes, it really helps. Yeah, it is so important. It helps um connect your breath with your movement, with your body. And pull. Pull. Switch. Pull. Pull. and hold it. Okay, now we’re just going to take a single pull, right? So, here we go. Just single pull and pull and and cuz every time you exhale, you’re actually squeezing the abs a little bit more, engaging the core. So, that will help with, you know, your abdominal chiseling. Woo! Yep. And pull, pull, pull. Give me four, three, two, hold. Okay, if you need a break, you guys, go ahead and draw the knees into the chest. Relax your head for a moment. Breathe in through your nose. Exhale through your mouth. Now, there’s two options you have for your hands. Okay, if you want to work more of the upper abs, you can place both hands behind the nape of your neck, elbows wide like so. Okay, as if you’re doing a crunch. or if you feel like your low back is popping off of the floor, hands in a triangle, and place them underneath your tailbone like so. Okay? Doesn’t matter which one you do, but follow the legs. So, I’m going to place my hands behind the nape of my neck, elbows wide, legs up. We’re going to go for a single leg drop. So, that means you’re just going to drop one leg parallel to the floor, and lift up. That’s it. Same leg down and up and low and lift. Beautiful work. So you guys, right here, make sure your lower abs are really pressing deep into your spine. Okay, we’re down and up and low and lift. Couple more on this side. Nice. How you doing, Juliet? I’m so good. And I was just thinking it’s so nice to like see your face as I’m dropping my legs. Oh my goodness. It’s a nice little peekaboo right. Okay, let’s go ahead and switch our legs. And I see the other side of your face. Yes, I love partner work. This is so fun. It is fun. Do you often um work out with any of your family or your friends? I do. I’m such a people person. I think it’s so important to connect with people. So, even if people are watching right now and doing this on your own, then you should go do it with a friend. Even if you’re doing it online together, right? Yes. Yeah. And at least schedule it with your friend. They could talk about it afterwards where you are. Yeah. Shared experience. Shared experience. So important. Okay, two more right here and hold it up. Okay, if you need a break, place your head down. If not, we’re going to go straight into double leg lift. So you guys, keeping the head, neck, and shoulders lifted, press your heels together, point your toes. We are going to squeeze our abs. Inhale down, bring both legs down, and exhale, bring it up. Oh yeah. Hello. Bring it down. And exhale, bring it up. Now, at this point, if you feel like your head, neck, and shoulders getting really heavy, you can place the hands underneath the tailbone. Relax your head if you want. Totally up to you. But make sure that low back stays pressed into the floor. Julian, you are so strong. I was going to say I’m shaking right now. Well, my inner thighs, my glutes, my abs. Yep, definitely the abs. Well, my goal is to make you sore. So, uh, we’re going to keep going. All right, keep going, you guys. Little bit more. Give me three. Inhale down. Exhale, lift. One more. Inhale down. Exhale, lift. Draw the knees in and relax. Oh my gosh. So good. So good. Flex and point. Flex and point. Flex and point. Okay, good stuff. Now, we’re going to stay in this position. We’re do a one more variation of that, okay? Just for funsies. This is going to be the harder version. So, hands can remain behind the nape of the neck or underneath your tailbone, up to you. This time, we’re going to do a single leg lift. So, same thing as the first one, but now we start in the bottom position. So, both hands behind the nape of the neck. Lengthen the legs. Okay. Now, lift and drop. There you go. Lift and drop. Single leg up and down. Really working the lower abs. Give me three and two. Good. One. Switch sides. Let’s go. Up, down, and breathe. Focus. This isn’t easy. You guys are doing amazing. Give me three more right here. Three. I know. Two. One more. One. And dead. So good. So good. Okay, so now go ahead and lengthen your legs. Arms long and roll up for me. Just one. Oh man, I feel that. I feel that. I’m sweating. This is good. Now, we’re going to do some of my favorite arm workouts, which are weightless. Um, and everyone who sees them are just like, “What is that? Does that work anything?” It does, and we will show you today. Awesome. Okay, cool. So, you guys, this one is called walnut crushers. So, you’re going to bring your arms out like this. So, the main goal here is to really work on the posture and also u make the back muscles stronger and also get shoulders. So, what’s going to happen is you’re going to press back, but it’s not just like a back. It’s like a little hill and a squeeze. Okay? So, a squeeze. A squeeze. Walnut crusher. So, why do I call it that? Imagine you have a little walnut behind your back between your shoulder blades. You’re going to crack it right there. Here, I’ll turn this way. Yes, that’s right. Boom. Just like that. See? Cracking the walnut. Perfect. Press and press and press. Good stuff. Boom. And boom. Nice work. So, turn. You’re going to turn around. Okay, Julia, tell me, what’s your favorite dessert? Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. I don’t know. Pumpkin pie. Pumpkin pie is good. Yeah, it’s good. There’s something like kind of sweet and savory about it. Oh, definitely. Okay. So, are you more of a desserts person or like a salty person? Um, you know, I’m I’m a mixture. I like a salty and a sweet. So, one of my favorite things, this is so random, but my grandmother Uhhuh. She would take us to Wendy’s when we were kids. Yeah. And we would get a Frosty and we would dip our fries in the frosty. Okay. I’ve seen people do that. I have never. But is it good? You know, I think it’s just nostalgic at this point. Okay. Well, if you like that feeling, have you ever had um McConnell’s sweet cream ice cream with corn cookie? Um, no. But I saw on your story that you made it the other day. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I’m like, yo, share the love. Um, it is so good. It is so good. Okay, so this is definitely not like healthy treat. It’s more like healthy for the soul treat. But the ice cream is made of just two ingredients. What is it? It’s a condensed milk and heavy cream. And I normally am lactose intolerant, but whatever. It’s worth it. And then I made some corn cookie that I got a mix from Trader Joe’s. And I just mixed it together and it was perfection. Amazing. It was so good. Also, I’m just going to let everybody know my arms and my back are burning. Okay, good. So, that’s a good time to switch. Okay, so keep your arms up. We’re going to head into back behind. So, palms down. Squeeze behind midback. Out and squeeze. Out and squeeze. Oh man. Okay. So, um, now So, you started with like baking and stuff, right? You did that in college. No. Well, I mean, okay. Kind of. You’ve been You’ve been my Instagram. Um, actually, my mom and I used to bake cookies in high school and I would sell them in high school. So, that’s how I started. But, but the really weird thing is that when I was younger, I didn’t really eat sweets that much. And I got into it because I didn’t know what to do with all my Halloween candy. So I would melt my Halloween candy and turn them into chocolate balls and sell it. Oh my gosh. So that’s how that’s kind of weird like to like melt it all together, but I’m kind of interested in my friends bought it. So I was like, “Okay, business opportunity.” I love it. So yeah. And then um I I’m actually normally very terrified of baking because if you mess up, you screw up your whole recipe, right? So I’m more of a sauté boil type person. There’s like something so comforting about following directions and having something come out at the end that having a result. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Especially when it looks beautiful, it smells beautiful, you just Yeah. I love it. And you just share it with the other people that you love. Yeah. Okay. So, a little bit more and then we’re going to get it into the one that’s crazy. Okay. Give me three and two and one. Okay. Bring your elbows together. This is called prayer pose. This is the worst one. Okay. Are you ready? Okay. So, you’re going to keep your elbows together, you guys. Do not let them come apart. Palms in prayer. And all you’re going to do is bring elbow to nose. So, up, up, up. So, this works. Yeah. This works your shoulders. It works your biceps. It works your chest. And it’s really hard. Okay. So, you’re going to lift it up just like that. So, for those of you at home who are like, “Oh, I don’t feel this.” Make sure you’re not going down and that you’re going up, up, up. Beautiful. Yes. Keep lifting. Lifting. Do you feel it? Oh, yeah. That’s what I love about Pilates, too, is that you’re getting those like third layer muscles. Uhhuh. And doing like small movements versus like these big motions. Y so good. Yeah. And it’s important to do like all of it. I feel like the weight lifting to dancing Pilates, do all of it so your body can really be challenged. Okay, we’re going to triple it up. Here we go. One, two, three, and down. Lift. Two, three, and down. Up. Up. Higher and down. One, two, three. Okay. And now we hold Julian. Hold it up. Hold it. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. And lift up a little higher. Keep the elbows together. Shake. Shake. Shake. A little bit higher. Up. Last time. And lift. Hold. Five. Four. 3. Two. Relax. Yes. Shimmy. I love that. Okay, we’re not done yet, though. We’re not done yet. So, now we’re going to head into booty. Oh, yes. Booty. Yes. Okay. So, come down on your side. Okay. What we’re going to do is support the head like so. Support the chest. And we’re going to bring one leg out just like that. Okay. And all you’re going to do is you’re going to lift straight up like this. Up and down. Up and down. And if you guys want to try a new position, if you don’t like being this low, you can also go up here, which maybe I’ll do that cuz I can see you better. All right. So you guys, you’re going to feel outer glute and outer thigh right here with your mermaid leg lift. And that’s all it is. It’s just right here. And if you guys are finding that it’s a little bit difficult to keep the leg um perpendicular from your body like here, totally feel free to go diagonal a little bit, but definitely try to work towards this position. Feel it here. Yep. Feel it here. Feel it here. All of That’s right. That’s because her form is perfection right now. Very good. Okay, Julian, tell me something. Tell me a weird quirk about yourself. A weird quirk? Oh my goodness. Um, wait. As you think, circle your leg. Circle the leg. Okay, go. Weird quirk. Um, I can do like some things with my tongue like um you know the threeleaf clover one. Oh my gosh. Wow. I can’t do that. Uhhuh. And then also the one where you do it like flat on your tongue. Huh? Oh my gosh. Wow. Do that. I don’t know. I feel like that’s like the the trick that you do in high school and I never found another trick. So I think I feel like I should find another one. Oh my gosh. My booty is burning. Okay, switch switch directions. Oh, and then we’ll be done with this leg. Oh yeah. I love a good burn though. Oh, love a good burn. I’m so excited to do kery with you, too. Well, this is like this is perfect cuz this is activating like our our life force energy, our like physical body, and then we’re going to go into like more of our like mindset and emotional body right after. So, I love it’s going to be like full body expression. Total full body expression. Give me three, two, one, and down. Oh my gosh. Righty. Oh yeah. Right. Okay. Let’s flip over onto the other side. Perfect. Oh my goodness. Okay. even same thing. You can go on your elbow, you can support the head, whatever. And we’re going to bend that bottom knee. Extend this one. Okay, here we go. And just lift and lower. Lift and lower. Okay. So, I’ve seen you um have different hair colors that you’ve experimented with. Which one’s your favorite? Honestly, I think that’s probably the thing that I’m maybe the most famous for is my uh hair color switch. So, um, yeah, I grew up literally blonde, blonde, blonde, like white hair. And then, yeah, I think just over the time I change my hair so often because it’s it’s the outward expression of what I feel like I’m shifting on the inside, you know? So, sometimes, you know, we go through so much growth and change, but, you know, people don’t necessarily see it on the outside or you don’t know how to express it. And so, I’m such a tactile person. And I whether it’s my clothes or my hair, I like to shift and transform a lot. So the hair is such a good thing to do. But I’ve loved like my red hair. I like that too. I had red hair. I had pink hair. Circle leg real quick. Circle leg. Um so this is all natural brown. That’s your natural color. That’s really pretty. My brother says it’s green. I’m like well what then? Then you have green hair too cuz it’s the same color as yours. Wait. I literally do not see anything. What is he talking about? I don’t know. Probably just cuz it’s that like mousy, you know, dish water. I dish water. These are weird words. I like it. Okay, go ahead and reverse the circle. Oh my gosh, my leg, my booty is done. Oh yeah. Burn central. It is so true what you say about the hair cuz I remember I had a really uh I was going through something really hard in my life and I decided to chop off all my hair. Oh yeah. That you know that’s like all the energy that you carry with you. So when you chop that hair, it’s like letting that part of you go away. It’s like fresh new, you know. Wow. I didn’t know there was like an actual, you know, reasoning behind that. Yeah. I mean, if you think about it, like this has been with me for a year and a half, probably. True. You know, so like whatever I’ve been going through for that year and a half, if I want to let that go, chop it off. I’ve always wanted to shave my head. I’m never going to do it, but Wow. That is bold. That is very bold. Very bold and very bald. Very bold. Very bold. Three, two, one. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, that is so good. Now, go ahead and flip over onto your belly. We’re going to stretch it out. We’re going to be done. Okay, hands underneath your shoulders and go ahead and put yourself up into a down dog right here. Pressing the heels down into the mat. Inhale. Big exhale. One more time. Flatten that back. Inhale. Big exhale. And I want you to walk inchworm your hands towards your toes and just hang right there. So good. Inhale. Big exhale. I want you to slowly slide up. Rounding out your back. Straightening out your spine. Rolling your shoulders back. And give yourselves a big round of applause. Big high five. Good job. You killed it. Thank you. You killed You killed me. Oo yeah. How’s your booty feel? Super sore. Okay, good. That is my entire dream. Um dream has been manifested now. Julian Huff is sore. Well, you guys, thank you so much for joining us. I hope you enjoyed the workout and I can’t wait to work out with you next time. Bye.
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