Pilates - Is This You?
Do you see yourself in any of these scenarios?
- You have had a baby (or two or three) and you feel like your body hasn’t been the same since. You need to regain strength in your pelvic floor and abs, and learn better methods of lifting and carrying.
- You are concerned about osteoporosis and want to do something to safely prevent bone density loss in addition to keeping you limber and strong as you age. Improving your posture wouldn’t hurt either.
- You like to participate in sports, but you are plagued by injuries, minor or serious, that keep you from achieving your performance goals. You want to find a new way of training that helps improve your sports specific performance and keeps you injury free.
- You are stressed out and need a healthy, proactive way to release tension. You have a hard time even remembering what it feels like to move with ease through your daily tasks. You’d love to feel stronger, more flexible and more focused no matter what you are doing.
- You workout regularly because you know you should, but it always feels like work, not fun. You want to find exercise that is interesting and enlivening that gives you results that you can feel. You want your workout to make the rest of your life easier.
- You have completed physical therapy for an injury, and now you need a smart, safe way to continue to improve your condition without hurting yourself. Maybe you can feel how the rest of your body got “tweaked” while you were hurting, and that didn’t get addressed while you were in PT. You want to feel back to normal, and learn new ways of moving that will keep you pain free.
- You have a special event coming up , like a wedding or class reunion and it is inspiring you look and feel your best. You want to stand straighter, flatten your belly and tone your arms and legs
Our Approach works for:
- People of all fitness levels and abilities. Pilates is highly adaptable and can work for you no matter where you are starting from.
- People with injuries
- People without injuries
- People of all ages
- Athletes
- Couch Potatoes
You’ll get the best results if you:
- Are patient- learning a whole new way of living in your body takes some time.
- Can be gentle with yourself- pilates helps us find out what is not currently working optimally in your body. Sometimes this can be frustrating because you realize you have a ways to go to accomplish your goals. It helps to let yourself feel OK with not being perfect.
- Are truly interested in developing a deep dynamic partnership with your body.
- Have Feeling Good as your first priority, and let results of physical appearance and specific athletic goals follow naturally out of Feeling Good.
If you’re still wondering if you can benefit from our approach to exercise, you might want to read more about how it works.
And, if you haven’t already, sign up for our free guide “fundamentals for pilates success.”