Kettler Pilates Ring

Kettler Pilates Ring for home workouts and group courses

The Kettler Pilates Ring is the ideal fitness accessory for targeted, joint-friendly exercises to train any part of the body. Its lightweight, handy design makes it perfect for performing Pilates exercises at home, in a studio course or while you travel. The ring helps in performing clean, controlled movements and allows for more intense activation of particular muscle groups.

The Pilates ring is especially effective for training the arms, chest, shoulders, legs, backside and core. The even resistance lets you perform exercises with precision to target the intended muscles. At the same time, training with the ring improves your posture, provides stability and gives you more confidence with your body and movements.

Padded surfaces let you better grip the ring and make some exercises in various positions more comfortable. This makes the Kettler Pilates Ring suitable for beginners and advanced Pilates practitioners to perform a varied workout to effectively strengthen and tone their muscles.

Kettler Pilates Ring exercise examples

Chest press

Hold the ring in front of your chest with both hands and squeeze the sides together in a controlled movement. This exercise trains the chest, shoulders and arms.

Chest opener

Hold the ring behind your back and press the sides together. You should feel this stretch your upper chest and work the outer sides of your arms.

Glute bridge with a ring

While lying on your back and holding the ring between your thighs, press your feet into the ground to raise your hips and back into a bridge position and squeeze the ring at the top. This intensely activates your gluteus maximus, inner thighs and core muscles.

Hip abductor exercise

While seated or lying down with your legs inside the ring around knee height, press your legs outwards against the ring. This works your glute medius and outer thighs and can also be performed in a bridge as above.

Full-body crunches with a ring pass

Lying on the ground with your arms holding the ring above your head, bring your hands and knees together and place the ring on your lower legs like a shelf. Then extend your legs downward and raise you hands back over your head. Repeat this exercise, passing the ring between your hands and legs to work your abs, legs and arms.

Russian twists

In a seated position like at the top of a sit-up, hold the ring between your outstretched hands and rotate your torso from side to side while maintaining a lengthened, straight back. This targets the side abdominal muscles and builds core stability.

Mobility motions

The ring can be held between the hands or feet away from the body and moved in circles or arc patterns to focus on joint mobility and flexibility without a direct strength aspect. You can also hook the ring around a foot and pull your leg for an intense stretch.