About Pilates

Increase your strength and stamina without adding muscle bulk

Pilates helps increase both your strength and stamina without adding unwanted bulk because it focuses on developing your core muscles - muscles found in your abdominal and pelvic regions as well as in your back. By toning and stretching these muscles, and by correcting your posture, your natural strength and stamina will improve.

Improve your balance and co-ordination

Pilates helps improve your balance and co-ordination by realigning your spine and strengthening your core muscles. And better balance and co-ordination means fewer injuries - hence Pilates growing popularity among professional sports people - from dancers to rugby players.

Improve your posture

Your spine supports the weight of your body and allows your body to move with ease and comfort. That's the theory anyway. But in practice, hours spent sitting in front of a computer screen or slumped in front of a TV means that the spine's natural S shape is lost, resulting in back pain and rounded shoulders. Pilates helps to re-align the spine and with that comes better posture.

Helps aid recovery after injury - and prevent injury recurring

Because of its low impact nature, Pilates is widely recognized as being beneficial to people who are recovering from certain types of injury including whiplash and a wide range of sporting injuries. Indeed, many of the injuries that sports people are afflicted with can be avoided - and Pilates can play a big part in ensuring correct body movement and core body strength leads to fewer such injuries.

Relief from back pain 

A great deal of lower back pain comes from poor posture and our daily mistreatment of our spines. By re-aligning your spine and improving your posture, lower back pain can often be eliminated entirely.

A great way to relax and beat stress

Pilates is a gentle form of exercise that literally re-introduces you to your own body. And the better you understand your body and how it works, the easier it will be for you to release tension, relax and beat the stresses and strains of modern life.

Help with prevention of incontinence

Stress incontinence is the most common form of incontinence and affects millions of people world wide. A common cause of this type of incontinence in women is pregnancy, where the pelvic floor muscles can be weakened, but as we get older muscles in the pelvic area can weaken too. Pilates will help you strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, thereby curing what can be a very distressing problem for sufferers.