Category: Understanding Pilates
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A 10 exercise daily Pilates routine.
This week, we’re sharing 10 exercises that can easily be done in under 20 minutes on your own! What a great way to get Pilates in everyday…check out our quick exercise cues and tips below for each one and try to get at least 8-10 reps of each exercise in – we’ll circle back to…
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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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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…