Why Pilates is great for runners
Pilates is an effective, mainly mat based, body-conditioning routine designed to increase physical endurance, flexibility, posture, co-ordination, and core strength.
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Centering – The Building Block Of Pilates
One of the key element of Pilates is ‘setting your centre’ which means getting all your deep abdominal & pelvic muscles working together in harmony!
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How to get the most out of your Pilates classes
There are a few things you can do to get the most from your pilates classes. Our instructor Francesca, shares her top tips!
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Pilates with Resistance Band
There’s a very simple piece of kit you may have seen in our Pilates classes, the humble resistance band! It’s a great way to challenge your Pilates exercises.
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Bringing Pilates Into Everyday Life
Pilates is a great form of low impact exercise to help strengthen your core muscles, improve your posture and help to keep you flexible and mobile.
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Perfecting Your Posture With Pilates
If you do spend a lot of your day sitting at a computer, driving or sat in meetings, doing regular exercises such as Pilates, can be really beneficial.
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A pain in the neck? Not with Pilates
Pilates can help with neck pain by improving spinal alignment, strengthening muscles, relaxing muscles, reducing tension and improving range of movement.
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Top 5 Pilates Exercises for your Abdominals
The great thing about abdominal exercises is that they very much focus on quality movement which, if you’ve ever experienced low back pain, is really important.
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Top 3 Pilates Standing Exercises
Our mat based classes involve a range of mat exercises in sitting, lying on your back or side. Pilates exercises done in standing are very important too.
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Mixing Up Pilates With Equipment
There is a lot of different pieces of small equipment that can be used in our Pilates classes. Here’s a few examples of some of my favourites!
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