Pilates
What is Pilates?
With an emphasis on core conditioning, breathing and body awareness, Pilates exercise is a safe and highly effective way to stretch, strengthen and streamline your body without building bulk or stressing your joints.
Performed on a mat or specialized equipment, Pilates is a fitness regime for life. The perfect complement to cardiovascular exercise, sport, rehab and life, Pilates will leave you looking toned, feeling revitalized and moving with ease.
Toning & Weight Loss
Pilates is perfect for toning and reshaping the entire body.
It works on creating long, lean muscles, and tones all of those hard to target areas such as the abdominals, inner thighs, buttocks, back of thighs, sides and back of the arms.
For toning, Pilates is best performed 3-5 times a week, this can include a combination of studio sessions, mat classes and home exercises.
Increased flexibility
Pilates exercises are performed throughout a wide range of movements and work on lengthening the muscles at the same time as strengthening them. To increase flexibility, stretching exercises need to be performed daily.
Improved posture
Pilates focuses on strengthening the weakened postural muscles and stretching the tight muscles that pull the body into these poor postures. Studio sessions are the best way to improve posture as our physiotherapists can develop a program to target your specific postural problems.
Injury Rehab & Prevention
Pilates is fantastic for injury rehabilitation and prevention as it works on core stability, posture, flexibility, and correcting muscle imbalances and weaknesses via specific strengthening.
Your Pilates journey
…a regime for life
Initial Assessment
Your initial assessment will involve a thorough assessment of your current posture and core strength. Your physio will then teach you specific movements and contractions that will become fundumental when commencing Pilates classes.
6wk Beginner course
Taught as part of a small group class, the Beginner’s course starts by teaching basic Pilates mat exercises. These primarily focus on strengthening the muscles of the trunk and hip and increasing the flexibility of both spine and hips. Detailed handouts are provided each week.
8wk Intermediate course
Our Intermediate course works towards progressing the exercises taught in the Beginner’s course to more advanced and challenging movements with the focus on further increasing core stability, control and flexibility whilst improving body awareness and muscle tone. Detailed handouts are provided each week.
Advanced Exercise Class
Our Advanced class is an on-going exercise class option aimed at continuing to challenge your strength, flexibility and general fitness.
Studio Class
Our Studio classes utilise specialised Pilates equipment. The equipment adds another dimension to the matwork exercises. It adds more resistance and therefore increased toning of the entire body. It works areas that can’t be reached with matwork exercises alone and because the studio classes are personalised and tailored for each participant, fantastic results are achieved. For this reason they are also great for rehabilitation. You can be at any level to join a studio class.
It is beneficial for a wide range of problems, including:
Back pain
Neck pain
Shoulder problems
Hip and knee pain
Arthritis
Rehabilitation from injuries
Rehabilitation from orthopedic surgery
Neurological problems e.g. rehab from stroke or head injury, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease
The best way to treat and rehabilitate pain and injuries is to book in for an assessment with one of our physiotherapists so they can develop a specific program for you to help your pain.
Enhanced athletic performance
Pilates is the secret tool that many high level and recreational athletes use to enhance their performance, decrease the risk of injuries and provide much needed cross training. Each sport has specific strength and flexibility requirements. When you book in for an assessment, your physiotherapist will look at the things you need to work on to improve your performance and then proceed to design a program for you.
We hold Pilates classes in Maroochydore, Buderim and Nambour and have several class times available each week.
Session times
| 6wk Beginner Course | 8wk Intermediate Course | Advanced Class | Studio Class |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buderim Tuesday & Thursday 5.00pm – 5.45pm |
Buderim Wednesday & Friday 6.30am – 7.30am |
Buderim Monday 5.00pm – 6.00pm |
Buderim To be advised |
| Maroochydore To be advised |
Maroochydore To be advised |
Maroochydore To be advised |
Maroochydore Tuesday & Thursday 5.00pm – 6.00pm 10.00am – 11.00am Thursday 1.00pm-2.00pm |
| Nambour To be advised |
Nambour To be advised |
Nambour To be advised |
Nambour To be advised |
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