What is Pilates?
Pilates offers a balanced blend of strength and flexibility training, and is suitable for all ages and abilities. It improves posture, reduces stress and creates long, lean muscles without bulking up. By concentrating on core stability you will achieve a balanced body workout, from the inside out.
Osteopaths, physiotherapists and general practitioners recommend Pilates as one of the safest forms of exercise.
All instructors at Pilates Body Studio are highly qualified, with an anatomical understanding of the body’s muscular and skeletal systems. During classes instructors integrate the whole body to re-educate and restore it to its optimum functional ability. This in turn reduces pain and muscular imbalances.
Our classes are open to everyone, regardless of age or fitness levels. So, what are you waiting for? Try Pilates today and start your journey to a new fitter and healthier you.
Why Pilates?
Feel the difference, see the difference.
Transform your body from the inside out by practising Pilates regularly. Pilates will help you to:
- Improve posture and flexibility
- Strengthen and tone
- Boost energy levels
- Reduce back, neck or shoulder pain
- Advance in your sport
- Prepare for pregnancy
The benefits are endless, and whatever your goal, exercises can be tailored to your individual needs.
History of Pilates
Pilates offers a balanced blend of strength and flexibility training, and is suitable for all ages and abilities. It improves posture, reduces stress and creates long, lean muscles without bulking up. By concentrating on core stability you will achieve a balanced body workout, from the inside out.
Osteopaths, physiotherapists and general practitioners recommend Pilates as one of the safest forms of exercise.
All instructors at Pilates Body Studio are highly qualified, with an anatomical understanding of the body’s muscular and skeletal systems. During classes instructors integrate the whole body to re-educate and restore it to its optimum functional ability. This in turn reduces pain and muscular imbalances.
Pilates emigrated to the USA in the early 1920’s, opening a ‘body conditioning studio’ with his wife Clara in New York in 1926. The studio featured much of the apparatus designed to enhance his rehabilitation work. This studio soon became very popular, particularly in the dance community, as it offered a chance to improve technique or recover from injury.
In 1932 Pilates published the booklet Your Health, and followed this with Return to Life Through Contrology in 1945. Through his writings and teachings, his method of exercise continued to be practiced after his death in 1967, at the age of 87. Pilates’ method of exercise was called Contrology, until after his death when it became known as Pilates, or the Pilates method.
In just 80 years the number of people practicing Pilates worldwide is estimated to be nearly 15 million, with over 15,000 instructors. Joseph Pilates’ legacy lives on.
