Why Choose Pilates

Pilates is for everyone, regardless of age, fitness level or gender. Pilates is a complete method of exercise that focuses on building strength and stability by consciously tapping into your core stabilising muscles of the lower back/pelvis and shoulder girdle while maximising postural alignment.

The aim is to achieve balance by relearning patterns of movement and muscle activation that may have been altered through injury, immobility or repetitive lifestyle habits that overload and stress certain parts of the body.

Using a series of low repetition, low impact, stretching and conditioning exercises, Pilates allows you to tone up and target specific muscles while simultaneously increasing your flexibility. Within a short space of time you will become aware of muscles you never even knew you had to begin with.

Pilates exercises train several muscle groups at once in smooth continuous movements. By developing proper technique, you can retrain your body to move in safer & more efficient patterns which is essential for good posture, peak performance, injury recovery and optimal health.

Benefits

IMPROVE POSTURE
Your spine supports the weight of your body and allows your body to move with ease and comfort. But in practice, hours spent sitting in front of the computer screen or TV means that the spine's natural S shape is lost, resulting in back pain and rounded shoulders. Pilates helps to realign the spine and with that comes better posture.

RELIEVE BACK PAIN
A great deal of lower back pain comes from poor posture and our daily mistreatment of our spine. By re-aligning your spine and improving your posture, many people have found their lower back pain is significantly improved.

PROVIDE A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP
A surprising ten million people get diagnosed with sleep disorders in the UK each year and not many realise Pilates can help. Pilates will help stretch muscles, release tension and pain, and also trigger natural sleep responses.

INCREASE YOUR STRENGTH AND STAMINA
Pilates focuses on developing core muscles. By toning and stretching these muscles, and by correcting posture, your natural strength and stamina will improve in leaps and bounds.

PREVENT OSTEOPOROSIS
Osteoporosis effect three million people in the UK every year, their bones becoming thin and weak therefore susceptible to fractures. By promoting good posture and balance, Pilates can actively help you avoid becoming one of those people.

BEAT STRESS
Pilates is a gentle form of exercise that literally re-introduces you to your body. As well as learning how your body works, Pilates will help to release tension, relax and beat the stresses and strains of modern life.

PREVENT INCONTINENCE
Stress Incontinence is the most common form of incontinence affecting over three million people in the UK. Common causes are pregnancy or the weakening of muscles, particularly the pelvic floor as we get older. Pilates will help you strengthen these muscles, thereby helping to relieve what can be a very distressing problem for sufferers.

IMPROVE BALANCE AND COORDINATION
Pilates helps by realigning your spine and strengthening the core muscles. Better balance and coordination means fewer injuries, hence Pilates' growing popularity among professional sports groups such as dancers and rugby players.

AID RECOVERY AFTER INJURY AND RECURRING INJURIES
With its low impact nature, Pilates is recognized in helping those with injuries such as whiplash or sport injuries. Many of the sports injuries people are afflicted with can be avoided, and Pilates can play a big part in enduring correct body movement and core strength, leading to fewer such injuries.

DELIVER LONG TERM, PERMANENT GAINS IN STRENGTH AND STABILITY
In most gyms you will hear the mantra 'No Pain No Gain', but you won't hear it repeated in the Pilates studio. Pilates is a gentle non-aerobic form of exercise that will tone and strengthen your muscles and transform poor posture without stressing the joints or heart.