PILATES
Pilates is a total body workout that focuses on initiating every movement from the center of your body and then spreads it to the limbs. This discipline originally called Contrology from its founder and our mentor Joseph Pilates (1880-1967), has been helping dancers, boxers, sports people, celebrities and countless others who have experienced this method correctly taught.
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Push Thru Bar Mat - 33 min
Level 3 - Pace: moderate
The push thru bar is an amazing feature of the Cadillac: it allows us to stretch the body safely and deeper, supports and ensures that the body works evenly, it also facilitates the correct position of the body in exercises like the teaser where it teaches the students th... -
Safe Arching with Rescue LOOP - 13 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
This quick progression will show you how a few targeted exercises, together with the use of Rescue LOOP, will help you to arch your back (in a swan for example) without feeling any pressure at the lower back: the correct spinal articulation, the ability to open up the hip... -
Mat with Arm Weights - 34 min
Level 3 – Pace: Fast
Can you believe that a 2-pound weight can make a difference?
Try it out and you will feel how the little weights sometimes will help and some other times will challenge your movements. Be aware to stabilize even more from the core to work safely. -
The Ab Series (Romana's) - 3 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
In Joseph Pilates book we only find 2 exercises of what we today call the “abdominal series”: the single leg bent, and the double leg bent. Romana, seeing that people needed to strengthen the core added three exercises: the single straight leg, the double straight leg and... -
The 100: Abs Killing workout - 12 min
Open Level - Pace: moderate
Do you only have a few minutes, but you want to feel your abs and work them deep? This is perfect for you! The 100 and the abdominal series are iconic sections of the Pilates Mat and believe me, they get to the CORE in a deep and intense (good intense) way! -
Arms and posture - 9 min
Level 2 - Pace: Slow
Let’s tone the arms! In Pilates we usually work with very light weights… but the beauty of it is that as we work the arms, we also engage and control the whole postural alignment of the body making an exercise that might seem easy very challenging and intense! -
Waist, hips and arms - 13 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
Perfect quick workout to get into waist, hips and arms when you have little time for it!
Accelerate the pace and the reps if you want to make it more intense, just make sure your form is proper and safe! -
Intro Rescue LOOP - 13 min
Level 1 - Pace: Slow
Rescue LOOP can sometimes be intimidating but this video will show and teach you the most important placements, movements and exercises so that you can get started with it and feel more comfortable when we use it in more advanced classes. -
Building the Plank - 20 min
Open Level - Pace: Slow
When something is hard, break it down, deconstruct it, pull it apart and all of a sudden you realize that you can do already so much (so many components) of what that exercise is made of. The plank is a full body exercise and its very beneficial to everyone to maintain and... -
Glutes with Rescue LOOP - 15 min
Level 1 - Pace: Moderate
I love hip extensions, squats, Romanian, shoulder bridges, sidekicks, single leg balance and jumps… but we can get into the pelvis and its reinforcement also with Rescue LOOP.
Place the feet in the foot strap and let’s connect that spring resistance to the pelvis! -
Reformer Mat (L1) - 16 min
Level 1 - Pace: Moderate
When you don’t have the apparatus and you are missing the reformer… the reformer mat is a wonderful compromise: It’s very challenging, gives you something different than the usual mat and you can do it anywhere you are!
It’s usually feared and left for advanced students, ... -
The Tight Rope Walker - 46 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
This class is a mix of foot-fitness, segmental strengthening, Pilates and Barre! All to achieve balance at its highest level, like the tight rope walker!
