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What is Pilates
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The human body has an ideal alignment,
or good posture, at rest, in motion and at work. The benefits
of keeping a good posture are many, from eliminating back pain
to sliming down the waist line.
Good posture is simply the right series of muscles working together
to hold up the skeleton in its optimal axial elongation. But
which ones? Interestingly enough, many key muscle groups holding
up your spine are not the big dynamic ones such as biceps and
quadriceps. Many of these posture specific muscles or core muscles
such as the tranversus abdominis are located close to the spine.
In many people, these muscle groups don't get the exercise they
need so they become weak, stiff and don't do a very good job
at holding up the skeleton. Even a good Nautilus style work
out won't do much for these muscles since these exercises are
designed to work on your dynamic muscles.
Pilates gently strengthens and stretches all the muscles of
your body, especially the often neglected core muscle groups
and effectively works at re-educating damaged muscles. It is
therefore not surprising to see professional football teams
such as the San Francisco 49ers and the Cincinnati Bengals adopting
Pilates as part of their fitness programs.
At the Centre Pilates de Montréal we help you become
aware of your body's structure in a very simple and subtle way.
We position your head, shoulders, hips, etc. in such a way as
to have all the parts correctly aligned in an optimal axial
elongation. This results in minimal mechanical stress and better
use of the spine's natural ability to safely absorb pressure
and shocks.
Many people find it hard to keep the position, it can be so
hard as to feel unnatural, however, it is both natural and much
desired. Often the difficulty lies with weak and stiff core
muscles which can't do a good job of holding up their part of
the skeleton. For others it could be the aftermath of an injury.
However, once properly trained these muscle groups vigorously
support the hips, spine, shoulders and head such as to make
good posture feel comfortable and natural.
We take great pleasure in explaining all of this with the help
of T-bone, our laboratory skeleton.
We assess your posture, flexibility and abdominal strength and
design a specific program based on your needs. All Centre Pilates
de Montréal (CPM) instructors are university graduates
in exercise science or related fields and master over 500 different
exercises of the Pilates CPM circuit: reformer (pictured), cadillac,
chair, lader-barrel, small barrels and small apparatus.
They will teach and help you master the apparatus and the exercises
in your program. They note your progress in your CPM file, our
unique follow up and profiling system that contains all the
necessary information for your training or re-education.
This method assures you of a highly effective and safe training
program while helping you get the most out of each of your appointments.
It is this knowledge of the human body in motion coupled with
the grace and fluidity of Pilates that make it both a science
and an art.
For more details and to register, call Francine during the day,
Nathalie in the evening or Guerline on Saturdays at 514-735-9506.
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