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Pilates in the News
“Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control .”
~Joseph H. Pilates
Pilates and Golf: A Perfect Match
Titleist Performance Institute
Most of the professional golfers on the PGA TOUR are exercising to improve their bodies and their games, and many of them (Tiger Woods, Annika Sorenstam, Rich Beam) are using Pilates. Golfers of all levels find that consistent Pilates practice improves their games and reduces pain and injuries. Read More....
Pilates May Give Relief for Parkinson's Patients
Controlled movements can reduce symptoms, improve balance
Movements in Pilates exercises are controlled — sometimes moving the body only inches — but those small motions are making a big difference to some people with Parkinson’s disease. Read More....
Pilates for Athletic Conditioning
Pilates Digest
Pilates helps athletes develop core strength, increase flexibility, assist in rehabilitation after injury and create muscular balance throughout the entire body. As a result, athletes can withstand rigorous training regimes and ultimately improve their golf drive or baseball pitch, prevent or recover from injury, and maintain an optimal fitness level for the activity of choice. Read More....
Male Athletes Get No Pain and Big Gain from Pilates
USA Today
Once favored by rock divas, actresses and supermodels,
the stretching and strengthening exercise method developed by Joseph Pilates (pih-LAH-teez) has become the latest training rage for male professional athletes. Read More....
Interview with Lynda Lippin
Running is a high impact activity that puts great stress on the lower back and lower joints. Any imbalance in the muscular usage of the legs and hips can cause pain and injury to a runner, especially the knee and hip. Runners tend to be quite strong in their calf muscles, quadriceps and hip flexors, with tight IT Bands as a result of the impact. Pilates helps to balance things out in the legs by strengthening the hamstrings, inner thighs, and glutes to take pressure off the front and side of the leg, leading to better alignment and less chance of injury. Read More....
Creating long, strong muscles with Pilates
I am going to let you in on one of the big keys to Pilates exercise: the eccentric contraction. In Pilates we use all three kinds of muscle contractions: eccentric, concentric, and isometric where the muscle is held in a static contraction. But in Pilates, there is more emphasis on the eccentric contraction than one finds in most exercise systems. It is the eccentric contraction that accounts for the long, strong muscles Pilates is known for. Read More....