We have all heard the phrase, “I want to improve my core stability”, but how many of us really know what this means, or indeed how to achieve it ? Core stability is the bodies ability to move functionally around a stable centre. In other words, we can move our arms and legs freely and [...]
The Benefits of a Pilates Workout
The Pilates method was invented in the early 1900s by a man named Joseph Pilates, who actually himself called his method “Contrology.” Pilates is a form of exercise involving resistance, alignment core strength and stabilization to help the body learn to perform at its greatest potential. Pilates is done on a mat or with different [...]
Yoga taught me we rely on doctors too much By SANDRA PARSONS
This article appeared in Wednesdays Daily Mail, all I can say is she’s right Ms Parsons so go exercise, and if you ate stuck at home try our iPilates workouts for your iPod ! Six years ago, almost to the day, I suffered a prolapsed disc so severe my entire back went into spasm and [...]
How To Create Good Sitting Posture
The best way to improve your sitting posture long term is to take it slowly. Start by recognising how you normally sit and try to come out of the position you habitually adopt, this postural self awareness is the first step to improvement. I would recommend sitting on a Swiss Ball for 10 minutes a [...]
Pilates For Weight Loss
Most people don’t practicing Pilates to lose weight. Let’s face it: most of us don’t think exercise helps burn fat unless sweat is pouring off us and we are struggling to catch our breath. After all, the mantra of the fitness world seems to be no pain, no gain. Pilates reverses that. Pilates takes a [...]
Arthritis and the Exercise
This article in The New York Times is an excellent reason to take up Pilates. Arthritis and the Exercise Gap By ANAHAD O’CONNOR Exercise can help ease joint pain and stiffness for arthritis sufferers. But despite urgings from health officials and plenty of science documenting its benefits, many men and women with osteoarthritis do not [...]
Your Neck and Computer NOT a Happy Couple
This article is an excellent reason to practice Pilates & why hot desking can be such a problem. iPilates workouts can help to overcome these problems. Dr. Marc Nimchuk Ironically, as you are reading this column, I am contributing to the condition that is the topic of this column. In fairness however, the amount of [...]
Pilates Classes in Wilmslow – Good Back Care
In last night’s classes at The Physio & Pilates Centre, Wilmslow, we enjoyed working on our SPINE CURLS. We started in the relaxation position with some body awareness and focus, thinking about the position we naturally placed ourselves in and then just nudging out of that position, feeling the change that a small adjustment in [...]
Hot Desking & A Bad Back
A client at our Wilmslow Studio has recently experienced exacerbation of her back pain and, as we were working through her Pilates, I asked if anything had changed in her daily life. She explained how her company have recently adopted a hot-desking policy, she no longer had her own workstation so could be working at [...]
Love your Body
A week in the Greek sun, people watching from beneath my sunhat got me thinking about how we feel about our bodies. Of course I was missing teaching my usual Pilates classes but you will be glad to know I was doing some fieldwork! One day, I watched 3 elderley Italian ladies on the beach [...]