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The 3 P’s to Pack on Your Fitness Journey
Tweet Last week, we focused on some important Pilates ABC’s to keep in mind as you travel on your path to fitness. This week, we thought we’d apply another helpful mnemonic device to remember as you practice Pilates, CoreAlign and yoga. We’ll call them the Three P’s: Practice, Patience and Personalization. Your practice… takes practice Read More…
The ABCs of Pilates: Awareness, Breath, and Control
Tweet“The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.” – Joseph Pilates Pilates is an art that demands not only physical, but mental strength, as well. As it is time for school to start back up, let’s revisit a few of Joseph Pilates’ basic tenets. Mastering these “ABCs” of Pilates Read More…
5 Summer’s End Excuses and How to Overcome Them
Tweet As summer comes to an end, many people start to ease up on their summer fitness routines and begin hunkering down for fall. Why? Is it because we live in the Midwest, where we can bundle up for the cold weather? Or maybe we have children going back to school, so we feel like vacation Read More…
The body and the brain
TweetWhen you work out, how often are you really aware of what you’re really doing? Are your headphones on while you’re running around burning carbs? Are you concentrating on the road in front of you… or are you just… running? The truth is – few things in the everyday make us consciously think about what Read More…
Golden Quotes: Olympic athletes and the Pilates advantage
Tweet What does it take to become an Olympic athlete? Many of them would say, precision, breath, control, flow, centering, and concentration. If that list sounds a little familiar, it’s because these are the basic tenets of Pilates. With a world of state-of-the-art training options at their fingertips, why is it that so many Olympic Read More…
Stability in the saddle requires full body strength.
Tweet Balance, concentration and control: important principles for any moving sport. Lose sight of these and you could cause yourself embarrassment or injury. In a sport like horseback riding, however, much more is at stake. You run the risk of injuring not only yourself, but your horse as well. And let’s face it – when Read More…
CoreAlign with Carolyn | Simulate your swim
TweetWhen swimmers move through water, their whole body benefits from the resistance. To kick it up a notch, they have plenty of aquatic options, like paddling with a medicine ball in front of them or towing a swim parachute behind them. But what can swimmers use on dry land to strengthen their stroke? You guessed Read More…
A Simple Fitness Formula
Tweet We’re not going to talk about the blazing heat we experienced this summer – but, we hope you’ve still felt the burn. There’s nothing quite like the feeling you get after a good workout. Whether it’s in the Pilates studio on the mat or practicing Yoga yourself at home, we know it gets hard Read More…
No train, no gain! CoreAlign to maximize your marathon.
Tweet Does it seem like everyone you know is training for a marathon? It’s not your imagination. In the last decade, the popularity of marathon running has really taken off. Whether it’s for a worthy cause, the challenge of it or just for fun, this amazing team and confidence building sport shows no sign of Read More…
Swimmers go for the gold with Pilates – and so can you!
Tweet To train for an all-body sport like swimming, you need an all-body exercise. That is why so many Olympic swimmers, like Dara Torres, Natalie Coughlin and Rebecca Soni turn to the comprehensive workout of Pilates. It starts in the core Pilates improves swimming performance in a number of ways, most importantly, strength. There is Read More…