Corestrength Pilates

Was guilty of this just last night at my reformer flow class at Humankind Pilates 🙄😂

Guilty 🖐️

Anyone else? 😂

Movement is medicine

Tom

Happy New Year! Here is an interesting article to guide you towards types of exercise you may not have tried before. And of course Pilates is in there 😊

The strength secret: how to get seriously fit from scratch – in 12 easy, enjoyable steps Start with walking in January – then graduate to breathing exercises, circuits and pilates. With a new activity to try each month, you’ll soon improve your flexibility and fitness, without feeling the burn

For those of you lucky enough to be jetting off somewhere far away for Christmas, here are some ideas from Balanced Body for what you can do on a long haul flight to avoid feeling quite so stiff and crunched up when you arrive at your destination.

Travel Workout: Long Flight Exercises & Stretches | NO EQUIPMENT NEEDED This Pilates workout is part of our favorite healthy holiday hacks!Instructor: Ashley Celaya Dow 00:00 INTRODUCTION...

Selling 3 Original Balanced Body Pilates Arcs. £30 each or all 3 for £80 (original Price £140 each). This is a wonderfully versatile piece of equipment that can be used to enhance numerous Pilates exercises. The lip is removable, there are two shapes of arc and they fit over Balanced body reformers as well.

What he said 😊

Pelvic floor activation is responsive to the contractions of the thoracic diaphragm.

Breathing exercises are a great addition to pelvic floor training as these two dynamic domes move together to help maintain ideal pressure inside the abdominal cavity.

Diaphragm training is pelvic floor training.

Movement is medicine

Tom

Do you want to feel stronger, taller , re-energised? Join me for Pilates at Vida Active Club CIC this Thursday at 5.30. Book using the following link:

* Pilates with Annabelle

Come to my new Pilates Mat class starting 17.30 this Thursday, 5th October, at Vida Active, 74 Blatchington Road, Hove.

New mat class start this Thursday, 5th October at 17.30 at Vida Active Club CIC,74 Blatchington Road Hove. Strengthen, lengthen and tone with Pilates! Suits any age, body or fitness level. (Prices in the comments below.)

Come and join my new Pilates mat class starting soon at 17.30 on Thursdays at Vida Active Club CIC, 74 Blatchington Road, Hove.
Strengthen, lengthen and tone in a Pilates class which combines traditional Pilates exercises with variations, modifications and props to keep things interesting and suit any age, body or fitness level.

Wonderful, positive thoughts for the weekend!

End of an era. Very sad to have taught my last lessons at Brighton Pilates Studio in Ralli Hall today. I will miss the bright airy space, the wonderful clients and the fantastic teachers I’ve been privileged to work alongside for the last 5 years. I will look forward to the next chapter when we can work together again!

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Many studies have shown how regular Pilates training improves balance and it has been a primary goal for all my clients. It is good to see how the importance of good balance is becoming increasingly recognised.

Balancing on one leg may be useful health test in later life, research suggests People who cannot stand on one leg for 10 seconds are found to be almost twice as likely to die within 10 years

A very important reason women should be doing resistance training, especially as we age.

In her book Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez says...

“Even something as basic as advice on how to exercise to keep disease at bay is based on male-biased research.

If you run a general search for whether resistance training is good for reducing heart disease, you’ll come across a series of papers warning against resistance training if you have high blood pressure.

This is in large part because of the concerns that it doesn’t have as beneficial an effect on lowering blood pressure as aerobic exercise, and also because it causes an increase in artery stiffness.

Which is all true.

In men.

Who, as ever, form the majority of research participants.”

The research that has been conducted on women suggests that this advice is not gender-neutral.

A 2008 study found that not only does resistance training lower blood pressure to a greater extent in women, but also women *do not* suffer from the same increase in artery stiffness as men.

And this matters, because as women get older, their blood pressure gets higher (compared to men of the same age).

And elevated blood pressure is more directly linked to cardiovascular mortality in women than in men.

It’s also important because the drugs that are commonly used to reduce blood pressure have been shown to be less beneficial in lowering blood pressure in women than in men.

So to sum up…

“for women, the blood-pressure drugs (developed using male subjects) don’t work as effectively, but resistance training just might do the trick.

Except we haven’t known that because all the studies have been done on men.

And this is before we account for the benefits to women in doing resistance training to counteract osteopenia and osteoporosis, both of which they are at high risk for post-menopause.”

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Amazing experience at the Moving Fascia Teacher Training course with Evolve Movement Education

This tweet from Matt Haig caught my eye. What he said... and also do Pilates! 😁

This post from Matt Haig on Twitter caught my eye this morning. What he said.... and also do Pilates!

This new study shows that stretching can benefit more than just your muscles!
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uos-sme011421.php?fbclid=IwAR2BsgtKjHWpPe2PQxpQGFUJc06Lx1jZ8YYAeuDLmcw3LPASYFTtSogdHJk

Stretching more effective than walking to lower high blood pressure: USask study A new University of Saskatchewan (USask) study has found that stretching is superior to brisk walking for reducing blood pressure in people with high blood pressure or who are at risk of developing elevated blood pressure levels.

A girl cannot live by Pilates alone! Stopped being wimpy about the cold and went for a snowy run 🏃‍♀️