WHAT IS PILATES?
Pilates Floor Exercise
Pilates is the perfect exercise solution for those with busy, often sedentary lifestyles.
Many of us spend hours on computers, driving cars or rushing from one job to the next. Our minds are full of lists of jobs to fit in before the end of the day.
Taught correctly, Pilates counteracts this lifestyle; enhancing physical fitness and mental relaxation and reducing incidences of back pain and injury. Numerous benefits including increase lung capacity and circulation through deep healthy breathing, strength, stability and flexibility particularly of the back and abdominal muscles, posture, balance, alignment and core strength as well as increase body awareness.
The concentration required also creates a space for a busy mind to focus on something else and at the end of your session you find that you have benefited from letting go of the stress of daily living.
How can it help?
• Increase fitness and improve body awareness.
• Prevent injuries
• Speed recovery after an injury
• Improve mental agility and technique for sport/dance professionals
• Boost coordination
• Reduce stress
• Improve posture
• Re-train the body to move safely and efficiently
Pilates is suitable for all ages, whether you are 12 or 80 years old.
IS IT A FAD?
Pilates takes its name from Joseph Pilates, born in Germany in 1888, in Britain at the outbreak of World War 1, he was imprisoned in a POW camp in Lancashire and it was there he devised a daily mat work routine of exercise using only his body weight to work his body and keep fit and healthy.
He went from there to a TB sanatorium on the Isle of Man and started to use whatever he could to help the patients recover their health, he went back to Germany but decided to emigrate to America and he and his wife Clara who he met on the way opened their studio in New York.
They continued to work and train teachers from 1926 to 1966 and he died in 1967, his wife Clara continued to teach for another 10 years.
Pilates came to Britain in the early 70s where a few studios opened up in London mainly. The main explosion began in the mid 90's when Lynne Robinson and Gordon Thompson wrote their first book and started the Body Control Pilates® mat work teacher training scheme with Helga Fisher.
Now recognised by the medical profession as the most effective and safest form of exercise for those with chronic back pain and other rehab requirements, the emphasis on working correctly without strain is easy on the joints and creates a safe, strong body that can support you into the future.
"I have been going to Karen's Pilates classes for many, many years now - far before it became trendy and celebrity-led!
Whilst I thankfully haven't got any back problems, I feel that pilates helps me to avoid stiffening and tense joints. Moreover the class is great fun - we often end up corpsing in a fit of giggles - and so good for mind and body. It helps to keep me supple, aids my posture and strengthens my core muscles. It is an oasis in a busy week.
See you Wednesday"
Gina
xx
Many of us spend hours on computers, driving cars or rushing from one job to the next. Our minds are full of lists of jobs to fit in before the end of the day.
Taught correctly, Pilates counteracts this lifestyle; enhancing physical fitness and mental relaxation and reducing incidences of back pain and injury. Numerous benefits including increase lung capacity and circulation through deep healthy breathing, strength, stability and flexibility particularly of the back and abdominal muscles, posture, balance, alignment and core strength as well as increase body awareness.
The concentration required also creates a space for a busy mind to focus on something else and at the end of your session you find that you have benefited from letting go of the stress of daily living.
How can it help?
• Increase fitness and improve body awareness.
• Prevent injuries
• Speed recovery after an injury
• Improve mental agility and technique for sport/dance professionals
• Boost coordination
• Reduce stress
• Improve posture
• Re-train the body to move safely and efficiently
Pilates is suitable for all ages, whether you are 12 or 80 years old.
IS IT A FAD?
Pilates takes its name from Joseph Pilates, born in Germany in 1888, in Britain at the outbreak of World War 1, he was imprisoned in a POW camp in Lancashire and it was there he devised a daily mat work routine of exercise using only his body weight to work his body and keep fit and healthy.
He went from there to a TB sanatorium on the Isle of Man and started to use whatever he could to help the patients recover their health, he went back to Germany but decided to emigrate to America and he and his wife Clara who he met on the way opened their studio in New York.
They continued to work and train teachers from 1926 to 1966 and he died in 1967, his wife Clara continued to teach for another 10 years.
Pilates came to Britain in the early 70s where a few studios opened up in London mainly. The main explosion began in the mid 90's when Lynne Robinson and Gordon Thompson wrote their first book and started the Body Control Pilates® mat work teacher training scheme with Helga Fisher.
Now recognised by the medical profession as the most effective and safest form of exercise for those with chronic back pain and other rehab requirements, the emphasis on working correctly without strain is easy on the joints and creates a safe, strong body that can support you into the future.
"I have been going to Karen's Pilates classes for many, many years now - far before it became trendy and celebrity-led!
Whilst I thankfully haven't got any back problems, I feel that pilates helps me to avoid stiffening and tense joints. Moreover the class is great fun - we often end up corpsing in a fit of giggles - and so good for mind and body. It helps to keep me supple, aids my posture and strengthens my core muscles. It is an oasis in a busy week.
See you Wednesday"
Gina
xx
