Thank-you Pilates. After yesterday’s Chair Pilates Class, one of my class members, Sue, told me she thinks Pilates is really helping her. I was all ears with a big smile, I will never tire of hearing these gems of feedback. Sue had walked around her local garden centre a few days ago and walked all the way around pain free! On previous visits she could only walk half-way around and would have to return home taking her aches and pains with her. Sue was delighted, within just a couple of months of starting my classes. I am in the lucky position of being constantly delighted, as this is the result, always, of Pilates practice. Also this week, one of my Zoom class members, Julia, having just had a bad fall, broken hip and hip replacement, logged in to zoom from her hospital bed, beaming from ear to ear. She said, “Please use me as an example. Without Pilates i would be really struggling right now, but my core & upper body strength are keeping me mobile.” Julia said the doctors could not believe her strength and predicted her recovery will be much faster than it is for most people after hip replacement. I have just spoken with Julia and she is doing her Pilates exercises from her hospital bed, keeping her mentally positive too. Yes, Pilates will stengthen and tone your entire body just like all the many other exercise classes I have taught over the past 22 years … Body Pump, HIIT, BodyBlast, Bums and Tums, Fatburner, Boxercise etc etc … all great classes to participate in and to teach. But if you want more than that from your exercise class. If you want to change your life quite lierally, with increased mobility, stronger joints, reduced pain, NO pain! Pilates is the only exercise class that can give you those results. If you want to go for that walk without worrying how far you can go; If you want to play with your children, grandchildren rather than ‘watching’ them play; If you want to look younger with correct posture rather than feeling old before your time, If you want to recover quickly from injury, Pilates will deliver. That is why Pilates is the only form of exercise I teach now. I believe it is a superior form of exercise. The photo here is of me and some of my class members practicing Pilates where it all began, in the Isle of Man, where Joseph Pilates was interned during WW2 and during that internment he created this truly life changing form of exercise. Life changing for him and for us. Thank-you Joseph xx
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Level 3 Certificate in Low Back Pain GP & Specialist Referrals Advanced Personal Training Diploma Nordic Walking Coach Level 3 Nutrition REPS (register of Exercise Professionals)