last update Oktober 26, 2015

Pilates

Pilates - a gentle training method

• Pilates is trained with flowing movements.
  
• There is no hopping, jumping, tearing and no heavy weights in the training.
  
• Major premise is the training position that follows the natural shape of your spine witch gives you security.

Trainings Goals:

• better body awareness
  
• invigoration of the sustaining muscular structure
  
• better mobility of your spine
  
• harmonizing of motion and respiration
• better physical coordination
  
• enhancement of flexibility and balance
  
• enhancement of mental and psychiological endurance / stress reduction
  
• positive aura
  
• upright posture
  
• a firm and lissome body
  

The Pilates Promise:

• After 10 training lessons you feel the difference,
• after 20 you see it, and
• after 30 you will have an entire new body!

Try it yourself.

The method is based on 6 principles to achieve maximal result from minimal effort.

1. Control
2. Concentration
3. Centering (tension of belly <-> pelvic floor)
4. Respiration
5. Precision
6. Flow of Motion

Background of the Pilates Method
This method is based on the lifework of Joseph Hubertus Pilates (1880-1965). Pilates, born in Düsseldorf (Germany), developed a method to change his own weak appearance into that of an athlet. He developed a symbiosis of far eastern and european training schools that he consequently improved. He immigrated to the United States in the 1920s (to New York). His studio there quickly fascinated the elite of the New York establishment. Numerous actors, dancers, and top athlets preferred his method to individually add it to their traditional training programs.
So it has not only been used by Madonna and Steffi Graf...

Some exercises that I put here for you.

For further information about Joseph Pilates see Google. In German: www.powerpilates.de/jhpilates.phtml

Kirsten Kaack
www.pilates-sh.de & www.health-training.de
info@pilates-sh.de & info@health-training.de