EXETER PILATES – Estuary Clinic Pilates

Pilates was created in 1920 by Joseph Pilates as a form of physical rehabilitation, and more recently, used by dancers and other athletes to prepare their bodies for performance.

In his own words, ‘Pilates develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit’. Joseph Pilates.

Pilates is another mindful form of exercise, where everything starts from awareness, and the focus is on gaining muscular strength, stability, alignment, and flexibility.

What attracts many people to Pilates is how it develops core strength, working with the deep abdominal and pelvic floor muscles to achieve a healthy back and great posture.

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There are so many benefits to Pilates, and when you start, you may find that other areas of your life are also positively impacted – ones you didn’t realise needed to come into balance. On a superficial level, doing a regular Pilates workout is one of the most effective ways to transform your body shape. In a one-hour session, you will get a full-body sculpting workout, as powerful as a gym session, but with much more benefits to the mind and body as a whole.

These are just some of the typical benefits of Pilates:

• Boosts the efficiency of the movement in the body
• Improves posture, mobility and flexibility in the spine
• Prevention and rehabilitation from injury
• Improves balance and coordination
• Reduces stress and enhances detoxification process
• Improves muscle tone with flexibility, leading to long, lean, flexible muscles.
• Releases endorphins, boosting your mood.
• The ideal exercise for pre and post natal, due to focus on pelvic floor muscles.

It is particularly beneficial for those with back problems, where the core is weak, and the pelvis has gone out of alignment.