Pilates for Health

Pilates for Flexibility & Health

Regular Pilates practice ensures optimum alignment and correct posture, helping you to develop flexibility, better breathing patterns and excellent core strength.

Pilates also oxygenates your brain and muscle and helps you to de-stress.

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Pilates fitness exercises develop the body by mobilising and increasing the flexibility of the spine, shoulders, hamstrings and hips, covering the side body, and its front and back, in the most balanced way.

No matter if you are running a marathon in London, competing in triathlons, practicing Yoga or just body-building.

The Authentic Pilates Method of Exercises, taught as Joseph Pilates used to teach, will improve your flexibility, body coordination and strength, building movement efficiency and awareness which simply doesn’t exist outside the authentic Pilates world.

In turn, this will increase your physical performance, irrespective of your chosen sport.

Perhaps this is one of the greatest things which makes the dynamic Pilates method very effective: both customised stretching and strengthening exercises work to develop and maintain the structural integrity of the body.

Authentic Pilates – first generation and second generation Pilates exercises are very different from any other system of exercise that exists including Pilates that is taught in gyms.

Instead of focusing primarily on developing and isolating big groups of muscles as body-building does, authentic Pilates works the human body as a whole (according to Joseph Pilates) to rehabilitate and re-align; to create your optimum posture, including a flexible and strong body from which all healthy movements originate.

This approach directly increases the efficiency and performance of any type of movement.

Any competitor, regardless of their chosen sport, will greatly benefit from a tailored authentic Pilates routine, and will perform better.

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The only piece of equipment you will need is just a Pilates mat.

Pilates routines are so effective that, even by performing low-intensity Pilates fitness exercises, you will improve not just your flexibility but also coordination and endurance while increasing your body condition and awareness.

Exercises such as the one leg circle, rocker with open legs, the side kick kneeling or swan, and leg pull front all improve flexibility of the hip and, in the same time, strengthen the muscle which creates good alignment and helps you to achieve hip-pelvis balance.

Pilates exercises designed for the hip area give you the choice of increasing hip-flexibility, developing strength and to improving balance for all the muscles that surround and stabilise the hip-joint, including lateral-rotators, gluteus-muscle, adductors, hip-flexors or iliopsoas etc. In today’s modern world, many jobs require you to sit down for long periods, and this can tighten muscles.

“A man is as young as his spinal column.” – Joseph H. Pilates – 

For example, the Swan activates the deep hip extensors; but, through concentration, contraction, lengthening, focus and lift, the same exercise increases the flexibility of the hip flexors, reducing tightness resulted from sitting down, and creating harmony and hip-balance.

Shoulder girdle mobilisation, stability and flexibility of the shoulder are also very important.

The shoulder is a very complex joint and requires specific movements, exercises and muscular contractions so that the shoulder girdle, including the abductors, adductors, extensors and flexor muscles, works in perfect unity and balance, and increases joint-performance and your shoulder-health.

As a Pilates instructor, my one-on-one Pilates personal training improves back and hip health and brings shoulders, pelvis and legs into alignment and balance.

The Spine TwistRoll Up and The Side Bend increase both spine mobility and flexibility, developing core-control, activating the oblique’s while stretching the back and lower back.

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Benefits of the Pilates Method:

  • De-stress, improve body oxygenation, mental focus and energy levels
  • Improves joint flexibility-functionality and muscle flexibility
  • Improves muscle strength especially for the muscles that surround the shoulder girdle and spine, the abdominal muscle, back and lower back, buttocks and hips
  • Improves muscular control of the back, abdominals and limbs
  • Improves body posture, coordination and conditioning
  • Improves movement awareness throughout all types of exercise after practicing Pilates
  • Creates harmony, balance and strength on both sides of the body
  • Relaxes the neck, shoulders and back
  • Safely rehabilitates joints, muscle and spinal injuries
  • Prevents musculoskeletal trauma and injuries

Do you want to ? 

  • increase your flexibility
  • improve and correct posture
  • achieve perfect body alignment
  • achieve a lean and toned body
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