Club Pilates

Footwork is a common exercise known to any Pilates practitioner. It was created by Joseph Pilates as the proper way to warm up at the beginning of each and every session on a Reformer. The benefits of starting with footwork help set standards for the rest of the workout and improve overall full-body health. Footwork begins by lying on your back on the Reformer bed. Feet are placed on the foot bar, and the legs press the carriage out and help resist it back in by slowly contro...lling the movement. Starting in this position versus standing up vertically relieves unnecessary stress on the body and joints. Walking, running, and squatting all need to be done while working against gravity. Moving in this position allows the ankles, knees, and hips to warm up in the way they most commonly move throughout the day while eliminating the added pressure of gravity. Doing this helps prevent injury and enables clients to work in a familiar range of motion before jumping into more dynamic and challenging exercises. See more

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This week Pilates Pike on the Exo chair. This exercise can be accomplished on the mat as well. Walk your feet in from plank to pike position as you scoop in your abs and lift your hips.then walk your feet out to your full plank. Ta da! The pike movement in this exercise requires shoulder stability, pelvic stability and hugging the midline, just as in the pike part of the Pilates push up. It strengthens the shoulders, chest, and arms, making it a functional total body exercise.

100's are familiar to us, we use them in every class to warm up are abs. 100's strengthen and sculpt the abs because it helps engage the transverse abdominals, which basically means the deepest set of muscles you have in your lower belly.

Double shoutout to Kara and Janice for making the Club Pilates 250 club! Congratulations ladies, you rock

Happy Halloween!!This is epic! https://www.jibjab.com//144db6d9-e608-4b44-a028-39b0857bae

Exercise of the week- Long Stretch, Planking on the reformer. In class we primarily hold a plank on the mat. Planks can be modified. Darcy, Dina and Megan demonstrate how they use their full body to hold a plank, aligning their shoulder, hips and ankles in one plumb line in Long stretch on the reformer, a Level 2 or 2.5 exercise. Planking not only works your core muscles, but is a whole body workout. It works the muscles in your body from your pelvic girdle to your shoulder g...irdle as well as your legs. Planking strengthens your spine, your rhomboids and trapezius, and your abdominal muscles, which naturally result in a strong posture as they grow in strength. So when you hold a plank, make it a strong one and feel all of those muscles working together. Work on it to improve your strength and form. See how long you can hold a plank on the mat.

The Pilates bridge strengthens, stabilises and mobilises the body all at the same time! It will also create much better posture. Bridging strengthens the posterior chain of the body, which means the glutes, hamstrings and spine erectors. It also increases hip flexor length and improves hip extension. These often become tight and painful due to the hunched up desk-bound posture which is so commonly problematic. On top of all that, the bridge activates deep stabiliser muscles, promotes better body awareness and aids relaxation.

Exercise of the week, my fav! Leg in straps! This exercise will help strengthen underutilised muscles, such as hips, inner thighs and glutes (buttock muscles). They also lengthen leg muscles and strengthen the lower back

Level 2.5 readiness workshop Sat at 1:15 in Frazer with Meghan Call to bookLevel 2.5 readiness workshop Sat at 1:15 in Frazer with Meghan Call to book

Attend a free Intro class and you will get a $10 coffee giftcard

Exercise of the week is Mermaid! We all love this one. Enjoy! The Mermaid is a great exercise for stretching and lengthening the sides of the body. The exercise also incorporates rotation and extension which gives you the benefit of improved posture and can help improve performance in rotational sports such as golf and tennis. https://www.facebook.com/1356457647775463/videos/721078611750881/

If you have not met Ruby, she is back teaching in the studio's this week. Ruby has been teaching Pilates for 10 years. She loves to cook and hike outside. Ruby and her husband, Adam, just had a baby boy in August.

Its not too late to join Team Jeff or donate to LLS https://pages.lls.org/ltn/epa/Chester20/TEAMJEFF

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Tomorrow at 9:30 am we have added a level 2 class in Frazer. Signup via your app or call the studio if you are a 4 or 8 class member. If you have never taken a level 2 and would like to try this class Kimberly will be customizing the class for those who would like to try out some level 2 exercises. We also have a Level 2 workshop this Saturday at 2:30 pm for those who would like to seek certification for Level 2 classes.

Exercise of the week is Side Lying Leg Series. Side Lying leg series can be done on the mat in a Level 1 class and can be done at the springboard and on the reformer in Level 1.5, 2 & 2.5 classes. Pilates side leg lifts work your abs, including those hard to reach obliques. Lifting your legs engages your inner thighs and buttocks while keeping your abdominal muscles pulled in and up develops core strength and improves balance.