This is a fantastic core workout routine to enhance your Pilates training program and improve the strength of your Ab muscles along with helping your back bend better for exercises like the Pilates Roll Up and Neck Pull. You’ll need a decline sit-up bench, or you can...
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Pilates-Walk Workshop
Pilates Tips to Improve Your Walking Technique for Better Wellness. Fine-tune your posture, body alignment and muscle support to help improve your gait and maximize the benefits from your walking workouts during this 2-hour Centerworks® Awesome Workshop with...
Intro to Pilates Workshop – Discover What Pilates Can Do For YOU!
Tips, Techniques, & Strategies to Get Started with Pilates Matwork Improve Core Strength, Flexibility, and Whole-Body Health. Learn more about what Pilates training can do to help you improve posture, core support, and balanced muscle development to stay...
Core Training Exercise: The Tabletop Prop – Help Strengthen the Abs and Relax the Thighs
Core Training Exercise: The Tabletop Prop Simple Exercise Strategies To Strengthen the Abs and Relax the Thighs I often see people in the gym doing sit ups thinking that they are working hard to develop the strength of their abdominal muscles, but their thigh muscles...
Return to Life! Use Pilates Training To Improve Structural Health
Get a Better Body, Mind, Spirit – Tall Posture – and Enjoy Fabulous Whole-Body Health It's Never Too Late to Improve Your Structure and Improve Your Health! One of the most fascinating and fabulous things about the human structure is, that regardless of your age, or...
Help Me Stop Gripping My Hip Flexors During Pilates Exercises
How To Get the Most Benefits from Your Pilates Core Training Exercises Q & A from the Abs vs. Thighs Articles I received a nice note from Kristi with some questions about her Pilates exercise technique and how to get her Quads & Hip Flexors (i.e. the Rectus...
The Benefits of Focusing on Flipper Toes for Pilates Reformer Footwork
Recently I focused on “Flipper Toes” with the clients in one of my Group Reformer classes and it was pretty interesting to see very experienced Pilates students with shaky legs because they were actively using their feet a little more than usual! Footwork on the...
NCCA Accreditation Approved for the PMA Pilates Certification Program
BIG NEWS for the Pilates Community Today! Pilates Method Alliance Receives Accreditation of its PMA Pilates Certification Program from the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) This is a fantastic step forward and the PMA has been working long and hard...
Pilates Matwork – Advanced Variations: Side Plank Exercise with a Twist
One of the great things about Pilates is that there are so many different ways to tweak the exercises and increase or decrease the challenge that you can literally spend a lifetime working on the same exercises and still enjoy variety in your workouts! While I...
Pilates Side Plank Exercise Variations
How To Add More Challenge to Your Simple Side Plank for an Advanced Pilates Mat Workout There are many different ways to tweak the Side Plank exercise and provide variety and challenge. BUT the technique of getting into and out of the Side Plank position needs to be...