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A strong back?
A flat stomach?
Improved posture?
More flexibility?
A body like a hollywood star?
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What is Pilates?
Hollywood stars swear by it . Dancers don't start their day without it . It is the exercise program that leaves you refreshed and alert.The Pilates method of exercising is a total body conditioning program, which enhances the quality of life through improving body awareness, strength, flexibility and posture.
There are 2 types of Pilates modalities-Matwork and Studio:
PIlates Body Shop offers both types of the Pilates Method
Pilates Matwork classes
Matwork is a floor style exercise class using your own body weight for resistance.Most exercises will be done lying on a mat.Pilates Body Shop has a maximum of 15 participants in each class.This ensures each participant is carefully watched and corrected -so that you can get the most out of your class "working smarter not harder".Pilates body shop also adds small pieces of Apparatus as you progress through the method.
Matwork classes are at
Wamberal Public school Tuesdays 6pm &7pm
next 10 week course ">starting 27th July, 2010
Pilates Studio Equipment classes
In the Studio environment the exercises are performed on equipment that was specially designed by Joseph Pilates himself.By adding or reducing springs the exercises can be specially adapted to the clients needs. This is offered in private classes or semi private classes. Pilates equipment has wonderful names like the:
Reformer
A multifunctional piece of equipment which looks like a bed that slides. By adding and reducing spring tension different areas of the body can be worked.This is ideal for anyone who has a back condition that is aggrevated by everyday movement i.e intervertebral disc protrusions/buldges
Wunda Chair
This may be the original step machine. It is a very advanced piece of euipment because it requires you to support your entire body weight while using it, as opposed to other pieces of equipment that partially supports your body.
Cadilac
The Cadilac has specialised attachments to increase resistance and lengthen muscles under tension.
There is other amazing equipment like:the spine corrector, high barrell and magic circle in the studio to play with.
Studio classes are at Forresters Beach
Mondays:9.30am/10.30am/5.30pm/6.30pm/7.30pm
Tuesdays:9.30am
Wednesdays:11am
Thursdays:12.00pm/5.30pm/ 6.30pm
View our Timetable and Classes
Health Care Rebates Available
Health Funds are recognising the amazing benefits of Pilates.
To see if your policy is eligible for a refund, check with your health care provider.
Pilates Body Shop offers:
Clinical Apparatus and Studio Equipment classes developed by Joseph Pilates
Matwork classes
A relaxed, friendly atmosphere
Personalised service to help you get the most out of your Pilates workout
weight loss tips
health care rebates available from certain funds
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
Robyn Alvarez , the director of Pilates Body shop, has been instructing exercise prescription for the past 20 years throughout Australia and Internationally. Pilates Body Shop started operation in 2001.Currently Robyn holds a Diploma in Pilates Method through Pilates International. As a level 3 practitioner with the APMA (Australian Pilates Method Association), Robyn is also an active member with The PIlates Alliance.
Diploma Pilates Instruction
Certificate IV Personal Trainer
Certificate IV Childrens Trainer
Aqua/Aerobic/Gym Instructor
 
History of Pilates
Joseph Pilates was born in Germany in 1880. As a child he suffered from asthma, rickets and rheumatic fever, and it was these childhood illnesses that drove him to discover a method of overcoming them.He focused on sport as a way to build physical strength, and became a skilled gymnast,skier,boxer and wrestler.At the same time he became passionate about human physiology and anatomy as well as studying Eastern techniques of Yoga and Tai Chi.It was a combinationof all these interests that led him to devise Contrology or Pilates as we know it today.
In 1912, Joseph moved to England,where he was a boxer and a circus performer .The outbreak of war in 1914 ibetween Germany and England interupted his career and he was imprisoned as a German national along with fellow country men.However it was here that he fully developed his own method of fitness.
Confined in the prison camp he devised exercises to keep himself and his fellow internees healthy. He used beds and other pieces of furniture to construct prototypes of the equipment seen in pilates studios today. He later claimed these exercises protected the internees from the flu epidemic that killed thousands in Britain, and other illnesses that often resulted from living in confined crowded conditions.
At the release from the camp at the end of the war he returned to Germany,where he continued to develop his method.An influential man in modern dance , Rudolf von Laban incorporated some of Pilates' exercises into his teaching.
His technique attracted not only dancers, but aso the Hamburg police force, whom he spent time training.In 1926,when he was ordered rather than asked to train the new German army, he imidiately left for America.
On his voyage to America he met a nurse,Clara, with whom he spent the journey discussing health and the importance of keeping the body healthy. By the end of the journey they decided to open a physical fitness studio together, which they did in the same building as the New York Ballet. Later they married.
As in Germany, Pilates attracted many of the top dancers because his method complimented the dancers traditional training.Soon actors,actresses and sports people, as well as wealthy socialites,were hurrying to Pilate's studio to discover his unique strengthening exercises performed on the equally unique equipment.
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