5 Tips to get the Best Pilates Personal Training in London

With so many Pilates studios in London offering Pilates one-on-one training, you must wonder where the Best Pilates Personal Training in London can be found.
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Mindfulness in Pilates Exercise

Nowadays almost everyone, football players, celebrities, from rehab clients to aging populations are eager to regain mobility experience the benefits of including a mindful type of workout in their exercise regimes. What type of mindfulness exercises are right for you? (more…)

Reformer Pilates for back pain


Reformer Pilates can be very beneficial for back pain. However, One size doesn’t always fit all.
Some of the widely advocated benefits of regularly practising Pilates reformer are improved core strength, posture, and increased flexibility. These will help you improve and prevent bak pain. Pilates exercises focus on strengthening your abdominal muscles, in fact preferentially recruiting the deep ones. The goal is to retrain your muscles to fire when they are required, with the right amount of force at the right time in order to stabilise your spine. At the same time, maintaining your entire spine mobile. Remember, “You are only as old as your spine is” Joseph Pilates…

Intelligent Exercise. Focus and Think


Concentration is crucial to Pilates exercise! Mindful movement means that you have to be present in the moment without distractions and focus on the task in hand.
So if you are looking for exercises to fix your back without having to think about what you are doing, Pilates is not for you. If you are willing to put the effort and voluntarily learn how to recruit your muscles by concentrating and focusing on precision and learning anatomically how your body needs to work, Pilates is definitely for you. #intelligentpilates

Working from the Inside Out

As with every rehabilitation programme, local stability means that the joints in your spine are preferentially recruited before calling on the big power producing ones. Truly, deep stabilising muscles work close to the joint and need to work before targeting the big mobilising ones. Learn how to do this with our Pilates Exercise for Back Pain classes.

How Does the Spine Degenerate?

As we age and sometimes through injury, the spinal segments degenerate. Spinal degeneration happens when the spine is put through stresses that the discs are unable to withstand. Moreover, poor posture, sitting for prolonged periods slumping will speed up this process. A weak support system can cause also the spinal segments to shear, compress the discs and it’s contents. (annulus fibrosus and nucleus pulpous.

Compression of the discs cause small tears to appear on the outside portion of the disc (fibrillation). These tears heal with scar tissue. Scar tissue is weaker than the original architecture of the disc.

Overtime, the annulus and nucleus lose its water content, the disc loses height and the vertebral segments come closer to each other. As a result, the facet joints in the back to overlap and twist into an unnatural position. In an attempt to stabilise the spine, the body creates bone spurs on the vertebral bodies and the facets. These spurs can cause pain, ache or discomfort as they lose their ability to move properly and may irritate the joint capsule as you move without support.

Pilates as Prevention For Further Damage

Pilates Exercise for Back Pain can help maintain your spinal segments mobile, strengthen your deep abdominal musculature in order to stabilise your spine as you move around in your daily activities.
Prevention is better than the treatment!

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We Can Help

If you suffer from episodic mechanical, non-specific back pain, a Pilates programme may be beneficial for you.

Book now an assessment. We can diagnose, treat and help you get strong through Pilates exercise

Blog written by Carlo Yanez
Registered Osteopath B.A.(Hons.), B.Ost.(Hons)
Fully certified STOTT PILATES® Instructor

 

Pilates Classes in High Street Kensington London

We are just 10 minutes away from High Street Kensington London (ok 5 mins if you walk fast paced 🙂

Pilates Classes just 10 min from High Street Kensington London

Pilates Classes just 10 min from High Street Kensington London

Discover the secret to a flat stomach!

Get stronger, lean long muscles. Improve your core strength, coordination, flexibility, endurance. All this in our Pilates Classes in High Street Kensington London.

How can Pilates help?

We know what muscles do what because we have an understanding of anatomy and applied physiology. Our exercise programmes are aimed to target your deep muscles and help you get strong from the inside out.
Pilates exercises not only targets your superficial muscles,  but preferentially targets deeper muscle groups that are responsible for that “corset effect”, making it possible for you to see results in your waistline.

Explained further:
“When choosing an abdominal exercise, it is important to consider that the different abdominal muscles play different roles in stabilising the spine, the transversus being a local stabiliser, the obliques being global stabilisers and the rectus being a global mobiliser”  G.B. Silva et al (2015).

We offer a wide variety of Pilates classes. Pilates Essential repertoire, Intermediate, Advanced, Cardio Tramp, Pilates for the older adult, Pilates for pregnancy, Dynamic Reformer and more.

We are open:
Mondays-Thursdays: 6:30am-9:00pm
Fridays: 6:30am-5:00pm
Saturdays: 9:00am-3:00pm
Sundays: 9:00am -2:30pm
For after-hour trainings we will strive to accommodate any request.
See our weekly Pilates classes timetable

Please note that Personal Training sessions and group classes cancelled or rescheduled within 24 hours of the time booked will still be charged.

All classes are held at:
CORE KENSINGTON
110 Kensington Church Street
Kensington
London W8 4BH

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References:

G.B. Silva et al (2015) . Electromyographic activity of rectus abdominis muscles during dynamic Pilates abdominal exercises. Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies 19, 629e635

 

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