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What is Pilates (pronounced
pil-ahh-teez)?
Whether you are getting in shape, rehabilitating from an
injury or chronic pain, training for an athletic competition, improving your
sports technique, or just looking for an interesting, new physical
challenge, the Pilates Method is for you.
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Pilates is a system of movement and exercise created
and developed by German born athlete and physical therapy pioneer,
Joseph Hubertus Pilates. Utilizing his specially designed equipment,
this innovative method educates, re-patterns, realigns and balances the
body. It promotes maximum muscle strength while increasing flexibility,
coordination and stamina.
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Pilates decompresses joints and, and consequently,
stimulates and improves circulation. This enhanced circulation, combined
with increased strength, range of motion, and a more balanced
musculature, promotes healthy tissue and precise, efficient movement
patterns.
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Pilates strengthens and stretches, frees you from
poor postural habits, helps heal back, neck and other joint problems
while alleviating tension and fatigue. Doctors, physical therapists,
dancers, and athletes have long revered Pilates as a powerful healing
and educational physical training system.
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How Does Pilates Work?
The primary goal of the Pilates Method is to enhance functional
stability and movement throughout the body. The body itself is always
treated as an integrated and whole system, rather than of a collection of
independent muscle groups and parts. Key emphasis is placed on identifying
faulty postural and movement patterns, and then correcting these by working
with both the skeletal and muscular systems.
So often when we exercise we concentrate almost exclusively on the muscular
system. What Pilates helps us remember is that muscles only work efficiently
and properly when our skeletons and all our joints move freely and smoothly.
All Pilates exercise focus on building functional strength and endurance in
"core" postural muscles to create what Joseph Pilates called a "girdle of
support" for the spine and pelvis. Attention to correct positioning and
diaphragmatic breathing are integral components of each exercise. Above all
though, clients are encouraged to sharpen their mental focus, and keep their
minds on what their bodies are doing. After all, Joe liked to remind people,
"it is the mind itself which builds the body".
As clients work on core postural muscles and joints, their bodies begin to
change shape and move differently. Their abdominal area strengthens and
flattens, their lower backs become better supported, and overall posture
improves. Time and again clients tell us they have never felt their
abdominals work as hard as they do in a Pilates session. In addition, they
begin to integrate what they learn about posture and alignment into other
exercise routines, sports activities, and even daily activities like driving
and sitting at a computer. People often comment that they look and feel
longer, leaner, and more graceful. Many even say they feel taller!
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