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C Curve v The Hump

The term “C-Curve” gets thrown around a lot in the pilates world. It’s used to describe the shape you are trying to achieve in all the rolling exercises we do in pilates, including the rollup. If you struggle with the rollup, chances are the shape of your spine when rolling [...]
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Can’t Twist? It Could Be Your Hips!

Yes, that’s correct! When the human body moves, it does so as a complete unit and not just in isolation. Even when you’re trying to “isolate” a muscle, which we very often do in the pilates method of exercise, other muscles work to stabilise or counterbalance. The mechanism of human [...]
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Mobility v Flexibility

Increasing movement capability, mobility and flexibility is a goal of many people who start a pilates program.   Mobility and flexibility are two very different aspects of movement capability and can be misunderstood as being the same. Stretching doesn’t necessarily improve mobility and mobility training doesn’t always lead to improved [...]
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Mat Pilates

What Is Mat Pilates?

Pilates has literally exploded as an industry and as a mainstream form of exercise over the past decade. This is awesome! It’s the start of the realisation of Joseph Pilates original vision of every person in the civilized world having access to his work and all the amazing benefits you [...]
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Exercise v Activity

Do you know the difference between exercise and activity? And after working with thousands of people over many years, we know that people do get them confused or assume they are the same. The lifestyle most of us live today is very different from a few decades ago. It’s fast [...]
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Is Your Posture Good or Bad?

Is your posture good or bad? Do you think of your posture as being good or bad? Here at Pilates Plus, we don’t think of posture as being “good” or “bad”. Posture is not being anything…it just is! The word posture relates to the position that your body is in [...]
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Breathe for core strength

Breathe For A Strong Core

Did you know that your breathing muscles are part of your “core”? The term core strength gets used a lot these days with most people thinking of their abdominal muscles being their “core”. Pilates core strength is so much more than abdominals, it involves all the muscles of the body [...]
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Why Pilates is Anti-Aging

It doesn’t matter what your age is in years, if you’re living on this planet, you are getting older. The mindset about aging is going through a big transformation with more and more people not accepting the traditional idea of a decline in quality of life as the years advance. [...]
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