ABOUT PILATES

Pilates is an exercise method and a system of physical and mental conditioning created by Joseph H. Pilates, almost 100 years ago. It enhances your physical strength, flexibility, coordination and reduces stress, improving mental focus and fostering an improved sense of well-being. It also has a positive affect to the body alignment by promoting muscle balance and a long, mobile and stable spine. 

Incorporating Pilates to your exercise regimen will not only improve your fitness and vitality but also protect your skeleton from the cumulative loads that cause degeneration and pain.

Pilates exercises will significantly increase the strength of the muscles that support and elongate the spine as well as improve the dynamics between muscles that are designed to move and muscles that are designed to stabilise.  It works the body in a holistic, integrated and functional way. 

The Pilates method builds a solid foundation for other exercise disciplines and although it is vastly used for its rehabilitative properties, in its original form, as expressed emphatically by Joseph H. Pilates, was an exercise    system for body conditioning designed to be integrated into every facet of life, with exercises ranging from basic to advanced level.  

The focus of Pilates is neither to aim for the esthetic benefits of toned abdominal muscles nor the burning sensation that high repetitions and lactate produce in the muscles, but to work with precision, control and coordination and increase mobility and flexibility in addition to strength to reinforce efficient movement that transfers to daily activities and athletic endeavors.

Read more about how to get started with Pilates.

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