B toned Pilates

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Pilates is a non impact exercise workout using mind and body which strengthens core muscles both front and back, develops flexibility and body strength and improves posture and muscle tone.

It is named after Joseph Pilates who lived 1880 - 1967. Pilates was passionate about the link between mind and body as a result of his own childhood experiences. As a child he suffered rickets, asthma and rheumatic fever and attended health spas where he was introduced to exercise where he did boxing and gymnastics.

In WWI he was confined to the Isle of Man, as he was a German who had been living in England. There he worked as an intern in the hospital and exercised the patients using their own resistance and a series of pulleys using bed springs.

He moved to the US and developed his exercise program called contrology - what we now know as Pilates and worked mainly with elite dancers and actresses.

Unlike other fitness classes - pilates works the body from the inside out, with participants noticing an improvement in efficiency of internal organs, whereas most other forms of exercise work the body from the outside in.

The Pilates philosophy is about overall physical conditioning and will challenge the most unfit and the extremely fit without causing harm.

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About B-toned Pilates

Cathy Eaton is the owner-operator of B-Toned Pilates.

Cathy has been practising pilates for 9 years, instructing for 6 years. Cathy is a former athlete who found she could no longer run due to persistent knee pain and tried pilates as an alternate way to keep in shape.

Pilates has been an enormous benefit to maintaining a healthy lifestyle for Cathy and achieving a level of strength and flexibility that surpasses even what she achieved during her peak fitness as an athlete.

Cathy says “a session of pilates after a bad day just makes me feel better, it lifts my spirits as well as rejuvenating all the muscles, I would thoroughly recommend pilates as part of your fitness regime.”