What Does Pilates Do to the Body?
Our genetics, background, lifestyle and occupation
all have a huge effect on how our bodies look and feel. Every activity you do
regularly, from holding your baby and sitting on the train or working in an
office to lifting weights, jogging or dancing professionally shapes your body.
Years of use, misuse and abuse lead to discomfort, pain and premature aging.
Pilates designed his method as an antidote to modern urban life which teaches people how to use their bodies well and stay strong and flexible. Pilates said that if you have a flexible spine at 60 you are young, but if you have a stiff spine at 30 you are old. We do not have to age as fast as our lifestyle makes us.
The Pilates Effect
The Pilates method:
Reprogramming the Body with Pilates
If you study Pilates with us, we start by working on the symmetry and alignment of the “box” and help you find your “powerhouse”, the key stabilization muscles in the core.
Through a series of exercises we lengthen and strengthen the muscles, teaching the body to lift up against gravity rather than slump and we work to develop a flexible yet stable spine which can move easily and safely. These basics are for everyone, regardless of their level of fitness because no-one is naturally 100% physically balanced.
In Pilates the emphasis is more about training how the different parts relate in movement than it is about developing single body parts. Once these foundations are in place we can build exceptionally high levels of physical strength and control.
Although it may not always appear like it, Pilates is based on natural movement patterns and for this reason is extremely transferable into the way we move in everyday life.
Pilates designed his method as an antidote to modern urban life which teaches people how to use their bodies well and stay strong and flexible. Pilates said that if you have a flexible spine at 60 you are young, but if you have a stiff spine at 30 you are old. We do not have to age as fast as our lifestyle makes us.
The Pilates Effect
The Pilates method:
- reprograms the way you use your body
- sculpts a balanced body
- teaches you to move with control from the centre
- corrects imbalances and postural problems which are often at the root of pain
- develops your body evenly so that you look and feel better
Reprogramming the Body with Pilates
If you study Pilates with us, we start by working on the symmetry and alignment of the “box” and help you find your “powerhouse”, the key stabilization muscles in the core.
Through a series of exercises we lengthen and strengthen the muscles, teaching the body to lift up against gravity rather than slump and we work to develop a flexible yet stable spine which can move easily and safely. These basics are for everyone, regardless of their level of fitness because no-one is naturally 100% physically balanced.
In Pilates the emphasis is more about training how the different parts relate in movement than it is about developing single body parts. Once these foundations are in place we can build exceptionally high levels of physical strength and control.
Although it may not always appear like it, Pilates is based on natural movement patterns and for this reason is extremely transferable into the way we move in everyday life.
