Pilates guru Brooke Siler, author of The Women’s Health Big Book of Pilates, has helped tone and transform the bodies of her devotees for more than 20 years, including celebrities such as Madonna, Zooey Deschanel, Liv Tyler and Kirsten Dunst. Siler is one of the few Pilates instructors to have trained under the tutelage of…
Joseph Pilates, the founder of our favorite exercise program, believed that exercise could relieve any feelings of nervousness throughout the body. Doctors consistently point out that exercising regularly will help you sleep better, as your body will be more fatigued from the workout. To alleviate this, we suggest trying the Joseph Pilates-advised spine-specific exercises that…
The Pilates 100 is an exercise that uses the method of Pilates to strengthen the abdominal muscles while teaching your body stability and strengthening your lower back. Pilates is a method of exercise designed to strengthen the core by using gentle, but powerful but controlled movements. In the early 1900’s, Joseph Pilates began to design…
Joseph Pilates considered Pilates to be a way of life. He believed through Pilates you could achieve your highest potential physically, mentally & emotionally. A strong body representing a strong mind, a stronger mind creating a stronger body… all of this transferring into ultimate happiness and a better world to live in. (Pilates, J. (1945).…
It is a common misconception that Pilates are only for women. It was only recently that celebrity fitness trainer Yasmin Karachiwala shared a post of football sensation Cristiano Ronaldo doing Pilates on the core align movement. Looking fit as a footballer in his orange jersey and shorts, Ronaldo perfectly glides on the core align, thereby…
We know that the mention of a Pilates workout would make many men recoil in horror. After all, it’s for lightweight lady celebs and men who babble on about their ‘aura’, isn’t it? That may be the stereotype, but adding some Pilates-style training to your workouts could see you getting fewer injuries and lifting more…
“Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.” – Joseph Pilates Pilates and Pilates based equipment were founded on the basis of rehabilitation. The founder of the Pilates method, Joseph Pilates, began to develop his work in WWI. He served as an…
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