Pilates Focus
Pilates is a series of exercises which focus on building muscle strength and tone, increasing flexibility, enhancing body alignment and improving posture.
In our daily lives we struggle to build even muscle strength throughout all areas of our body including our spine, trunk, arms and legs. Pilates helps us to achieve this by ensuring we concentrate on working all muscle groups with correct technique.
Due to our daily lifestyle we tend to neglect our bodies by not working them in the ways they were designed, loosing flexibility, muscle strength and developing poor posture. To gain back this range of movement, flexibility and posture we need to uniformly develop and enhance all areas of our body. Once we have achieved this we can reach our true physical fitness potential.
Exercises are carried out on a mat, reformer (Pilates machine with pulleys and springs), tower (Pilates machine with mat and springs) and other Pilates equipment and props including the barrel, chair, foam roller, Pilates arc and more.
Pilates was developed by Joseph Pilates, and further developed since his death in 1967 by his students and the medical and fitness community.
If you're thinking of starting Pilates for the first time, please see more information on how to get started.