Pilates is mindful movement that strengthens your core, tones your body, and calms your mind.
Why Pilates? I'm glad you asked!
Because Pilates does what it ‘says on the tin’. It strengthens your ‘core muscles’; your abdominals, pelvic floor and back muscles.
This helps to tone your waist and tummy, and can help with lower back pain if its cause is weak or tight muscles often caused by bad postural habits.
Pilates focuses on strengthening and lengthening the muscles during all exercises. This helps to achieve long, lean, toned muscles and improved flexibility and mobility.
Pilates is a mindful type of exercise, you focus your mind on what you are doing in that moment and also why. During any exercise your attention is on your breathing, the movement and your centre.
The result is a calm, balanced and ‘stretched’ state, rather than gasping for air and completely ‘powered out’. Many people would assume that means they did not do anything. Pilates is deceptive in that way.
Most of the exercises are done on the floor, but I tend to do a few exercises standing up as well to translate what we do in class into why they are useful in our everyday lives. It’s all very well and good if we can do all these challenging exercises lying down, but of course we want to know how to apply that skill and knowledge in day to day situations to counterbalance or eliminate stresses and strains, whether we spend all day sitting at the computer, standing on the shop floor, driving a car, or looking after children etc.
You may notice some benefits after only a few sessions, other improvements will sneak up on you over time as your body adjusts.
You'll never know unless you give it a go!
This helps to tone your waist and tummy, and can help with lower back pain if its cause is weak or tight muscles often caused by bad postural habits.
Pilates focuses on strengthening and lengthening the muscles during all exercises. This helps to achieve long, lean, toned muscles and improved flexibility and mobility.
Pilates is a mindful type of exercise, you focus your mind on what you are doing in that moment and also why. During any exercise your attention is on your breathing, the movement and your centre.
The result is a calm, balanced and ‘stretched’ state, rather than gasping for air and completely ‘powered out’. Many people would assume that means they did not do anything. Pilates is deceptive in that way.
Most of the exercises are done on the floor, but I tend to do a few exercises standing up as well to translate what we do in class into why they are useful in our everyday lives. It’s all very well and good if we can do all these challenging exercises lying down, but of course we want to know how to apply that skill and knowledge in day to day situations to counterbalance or eliminate stresses and strains, whether we spend all day sitting at the computer, standing on the shop floor, driving a car, or looking after children etc.
You may notice some benefits after only a few sessions, other improvements will sneak up on you over time as your body adjusts.
You'll never know unless you give it a go!