Pilates vs Yoga – What’s the Difference?
People are often very familiar with yoga and what it may entail but aren’t so sure about Pilates. We often get asked What’s the difference between yoga & Pilates?
People are often very familiar with yoga and what it may entail but aren’t so sure about Pilates. We often get asked What’s the difference between yoga & Pilates?
Top 6 Pilates exercises to strengthen and tone your running muscles and help to prevent injury and improve your running technique and efficiency.
We will look at why preparing for your ski or snow boarding holiday is important and what Pilates is – if you haven’t come across it before.
Pilates is an effective, mainly mat based, body-conditioning routine designed to increase physical endurance, flexibility, posture, co-ordination, and core strength.
There’s a very simple piece of kit you may have seen in our Pilates classes, the humble resistance band! It’s a great way to challenge your Pilates exercises.
Pilates is a great form of low impact exercise to help strengthen your core muscles, improve your posture and help to keep you flexible and mobile.
If you do spend a lot of your day sitting at a computer, driving or sat in meetings, doing regular exercises such as Pilates, can be really beneficial.
Pilates can help with neck pain by improving spinal alignment, strengthening muscles, relaxing muscles, reducing tension and improving range of movement.
The great thing about abdominal exercises is that they very much focus on quality movement which, if you’ve ever experienced low back pain, is really important.
Our mat based classes involve a range of mat exercises in sitting, lying on your back or side. Pilates exercises done in standing are very important too.