Pilates can be a fantastic way to keep your body balanced, which is especially important in a repetitive sport like running. Here’s our top 6 Pilates exercises to strengthen and tone your running muscles, help to prevent injury and improve your running technique and...
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. Whilst doing a class once a week is a great start, you can bring some of the key elements of Pilates into your daily...
The average weight of the human head is 4.5-5.0kg. It is therefore no surprise that with this weight at the top of our bodies, how your neck moves and works, the positions that are demanded of it and the support it has, can play a part in problems experienced with...
The abdominal (or tummy muscles) play a key feature in Pilates. ‘Setting the core’ is often a starting point for many exercises. The great thing about Pilates based abdominal exercises are that the movements are slow, considered and controlled. They very...
This month, Physio and Pilates Instructor, Chris, has chosen his top 3 Pilates exercises you can do in standing. Our mat based classes (as the name suggests!), involve a range of mat exercises in sitting, lying on your back or side. However, Pilates exercises done in...
