Category: Exercise Tips & Tools
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Teaching Tips: Working towards the Advanced Mat Pilates.
As instructors, we want our clients to progress in their Pilates practice but we’re often unsure of how we can introduce advanced exercises safely and smartly. We tend to look at repetitive movement as a way to access these more advanced moves. For example, if a client is unable to move their spine into full…
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Retaining Rotation: Why It’s So Important and How Pilates Helps.
There are certain moves we do every day that we don’t really think about; like reaching into the back seat of the car, putting on a jacket, or turning from the stove to reach for something on the counter behind you. If a daily movement task starts to cause discomfort, most of us will adapt…
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Our love-hate relationship with the Pilates Fitness Circle.
Fun fact: Joseph Pilates created the original Magic Circle (aka the Fitness Circle or Ring of Hell) from, wait for it, the steel rings around beer kegs and attached both ends to two wooden blocks. I don’t know about you, but the idea of squeezing something that intense while doing any one of the Pilates…