9 Important Questions to Help You Get Started Designing Your Personalized Fitness Plan For wellness success, each of us need to design our own unique personalized fitness plan. Our plan for weekly workouts needs to be Realistic, Do-Able, Lifestyle-friendly, and...
Functional Movement
Bladder Control and Exercise: The Benefits of a Strong Pelvic Floor
Bladder Control and Exercise: Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) is Not OK! (For Women, or Men) Do you have a bladder control problem? If you pee when you workout… Don’t just go and buy adult diapers, you need to read this! An article about women, exercise, and...
Choose to MOVE: What Movement Means for Whole-Body Health
Choose to MOVE your muscles to stay strong, healthy, & fit! As we head into a NEW Year, I’d like to share with you a few thoughts about choosing to MOVE, and what movement means for your whole-body health. Kicking off a new year, gives us a clean slate, a fresh...
Hip Exercises: Tight Hips Aren’t Terrible!
I know it seems like blasphemy to talk about hip exercises and say that tight hips aren’t terrible, but let’s take a closer look at this perspective. Every day in the studio I see clients who are plagued with poor posture and tight hip flexors from sitting all day at...
How is Your Spring Fitness Plan Shaping Up?
How is your spring fitness plan shaping up? What are YOUR favorite spring fitness activities? Do you enjoy getting outside for long walks? Hitting the road or trails on your bike for a ride? Participating in sports like Soccer, Baseball, or Softball? Participating in...
Pilates Quote: Functional Movement
Hard work doesn’t always have to be hard… By training efficient functional movement habits, so that all muscles are properly developed and working harmoniously together, tasks or “work” that once seemed difficult can become effortless. Are you ready to enjoy a little...
Pilates Quote: Breathe
Learn to breathe well for better health! It’s great that the act of breathing is regulated by our autonomic nervous system. This means that whether we’re paying attention to breathing or not, we continue to inhale and exhale to stay alive. Our breath brings oxygen...
Pilates Exercise Progressions: Use Handstands To Develop Strong Arms & Shoulders
The upper body strength benefits of incorporating handstands into your weekly workouts are huge. In daily life we don’t typically spend much time upside down on our hands. But, being upside-down is great for developing balance, body awareness and control, and...
Merry Fitness! 10 Great Fitness Gift Ideas from Centerworks®
Are you still out shopping and looking for great fitness gift ideas for the health enthusiasts in your life? What could be better than wellness solutions for better mind-body health from your head to your toes. These are perfect fitness gifts for Pilates students,...
Pilates Quote: Physical Fitness
Everyone is bustling about with holiday shopping. There’s one thing that should be on everyone’s list, but can’t be purchased with a credit or debit card. No matter how much we want physical fitness we can’t get there with wishes or wallets. It’s discipline,...