Reformer Pilates
Pilates performed on this amazing specialist equipment known as the Gravity Reformer allows a much more targeted and dynamic workout unlike any other workout. It helps to elongate your spine, joints and muscles which leads to a strong, flexible and balanced body.
This type of workout is perfect to counter balance today’s lifestyle where we have longer working days, sitting for hours at a time, and feeling stressed out. It is a total body workout that uses your own body weight so it can be adapted to suit your level of fitness and is therefore suitable for everyone. This type of workout is perfect to counter balance today’s lifestyle where we have longer working days, sitting for hours at a time, and feeling stressed out. It is a total body workout that uses your own body weight so it can be adapted to suit your level of fitness and is therefore suitable for everyone.
History of Pilates
Joseph Pilates was born near Dusseldorf in 1880. He was a sickly child who determined to make himself strong and healthy. He took up body-building, to the point where by his teens he was getting work as a model for anatomical drawings.
Pilates was perhaps the first influential figure to combine Western and Eastern ideas about health and physical fitness. He researched and practised every kind of exercise he could.
During his internment, he also got the chance to work as a nurse. This, in turn, gave him the chance to experiment by attaching springs to hospital beds, so that patients could start toning their muscles even while they were still bed-bound. Such were the origins of the first Pilates machines now known as the Pilates reformer. In their early incarnation the Pilates reformer was shaped like a sliding bed and used springs as resistance.
Mat Pilates
This Class will improve your posture and help you to develop a strong, stable and flexible body. During your Pilates class you learn to move more mindfully through a serious of exercises using deep thoracic breathing techniques which allows your movement to flow more easily and also calms the nervous system.
Pilates was developed by Joseph Pilates during the first half of the twentieth century to strengthen the human mind and body and although the original six principles which are control – center -concentration-flow- precision and breathing have been adapted to suit modern day clients who sit many more hours than they did back then, they still hold true today.