Who should do Pilates?

PILATES IS NOT A PERFECTION IT IS A PROCESS! As a tool for body conditioning,
rehabilitation, or injury prevention, Pilates can benefit anyone.

Clients include people who are:
~ Sports Specific Training (i.e. Marathon runners, Racquet Sports, Golf…)
~ Dancers/Martial Artists/Yogis
~ Office workers
~ Post or Pre-Natal Women
~ Beginning a new exercise regime
~ Struggling with chronic stiffness or injury

Conditions of clients include:
~ Sciatic Nerve Pain
~ IT Band Syndrome
~ Recurring Sprain/Strains
~ Osteoporosis
~ Arthritis
~ Muscle atrophy
~ Back pain (Spasms, Disc Herniation)
~ Post Rehabilitation

What are the benefits and how are they achieved?

Longer, leaner, toned muscles
Muscles can mold and change shape to the way they are worked. Eccentric, or lengthening,
contractions are the key to elongating muscles and are uniquely emphasized in Pilates exercises. Strength is utilized to increase range of motion ie. flexibility. You do not need to be flexible to do Pilates! The spring systems of the Pilates equipment act as weights and give both ‘resistance’ and ‘assistance’ to the body.

Improved balance and coordination
Learn to locate deep intrinsic muscles of the body and then apply them to bigger movements. This allows the body’s “Powerhouse” to be your core stability before your given movement is initiated.

Balanced posture and alignment
Muscles around the spine are worked to maintain natural, unexaggerated curvatures of the spine.

Prevention of injury
The cause of injuries stem from muscular imbalances or limited range of motion in a joint or
muscle. Pilates rebalances the body.

Optimum results in other movement disciplines and daily life activities
Sometimes it is the smallest correction that makes the body more efficient. Since the body
works as a whole, with separate yet connected parts, you feel energized and body aware.