What is Pilates?
Pilates is a form of strength training that focuses on improving muscle tone by creating greater stability, flexibility, and endurance. Pilates is low impact and highly challenging, and helps relieve pain, strengthen the core, and improve posture, balance, and coordination.
How often should I attend Pilates classes for optimal results?
We recommend 2-3 sessions per week, but it ultimately depends on your personal goals and schedule.
What is Reformer Pilates?
Reformer Pilates is a method of Pilates where exercises and movements are done using a reformer machine versus a mat. The Reformer was invented by Joseph Pilates and is a piece of equipment that uses springs and resistances to make a Pilates workout more dynamic and intense, as well as assists in reaching proper muscle length and performing the exercises correctly.
What does Pilates do?
While Pilates is most certainly a workout, it’s also a healing modality. This means that Pilates is a fantastic type of conditioning exercise—exercise that prevents injury. Pilates protects your body from injury because it focuses on improving alignment and core strength, which is further enhanced by the mind-body connection developed through regular practice.
What are the Benefits of Pilates?
Pilates is uniquely effective for rehabilitation because it emphasizes proper alignment, balanced muscle development, and symmetry. It relieves tension in dominant muscles by engaging postural and core muscles to better support the body’s movements.
Strength: Proper form and technique are essential to exercising on the Pilates Reformer. The focus of proper positioning is within the core, your abdomen, and lower back muscles.
Flexibility: Exercises on the Pilates Reformer require your muscle groups to move through a full range of motion. Flexibility improves muscle coordination, mobility, and posture, while reducing the risk of injuries, muscle stiffness, and soreness.
Coordination: The key to the way the Pilates exercises flow is coordination—it concentrates on working the body as a whole instead of individual parts.
Balance: You will challenge your stabilizing muscles in new ways and lower the risk of falls.