Our Top 6 Pilates Exercises For Runners
Top 6 Pilates exercises to strengthen and tone your running muscles and help to prevent injury and improve your running technique and efficiency.
Top 6 Pilates exercises to strengthen and tone your running muscles and help to prevent injury and improve your running technique and efficiency.
Pilates is an effective, mainly mat based, body-conditioning routine designed to increase physical endurance, flexibility, posture, co-ordination, and core strength.
One of the key element of Pilates is ‘setting your centre’ which means getting all your deep abdominal & pelvic muscles working together in harmony!
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.
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.
Pilates can help with neck pain by improving spinal alignment, strengthening muscles, relaxing muscles, reducing tension and improving range of movement.
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.
Many of you will not be at all familiar with the Reformer equipment, so we thought we’d share a little overview of the key components that make up The Reformer.
Although Pilates exercises will focus on your ‘core’ tummy and back muscles, doing Pilates exercises will also work and benefit your body in many other ways!
Pilates is an excellent choice of exercise for people who have osteoarthritis, as it is a gentle, low impact-based exercise.