WELCOME TO ROSSENDALE PILATES
Heather Parsons has been providing Pilates classes
in Rossendale for 9 years and fitness within Rossendale for over 15 years.
Heather offers you a personal, knowledgeable experience,
recommended by Rossendale Physiotherapists. These Pilates classes have evolved, adding in many other disciplines and practices and so has becomea very unique form of Pilates you won't find anywhere else. Heather has inspired many other teachers and works with other teachers and physiotherapists to cross reference and
update what is being taught to you.
- Do you have back ache, stiffness, shoulder /neck/ hip pain?
- Want to know what 'core' muscles are and use them to strengthen and protect your back plus support and tone your waist/abs?
- Do you want to be assured of Physiotherapist approved exercises?
- Looking for an effective fitness class that leaves you revitalized, calm and focused?
- Are you ready to to learn more about your body so you can self help and self empower and feel lasting results?
- Looking for expert tuition in Pilates in Rossendale that is recommended by Rossendale Physiotherapists?
- Would you like to walk taller, feel more confident, improve your posture, reduce /eliminate aches and pains?
- Do you want to return your waistline after birth of your baby and support your back while carrying baby /toddler?
- Looking to improve your sports performance? (see below for a list of famous sports people that use Pilates to enhance their performance)
If you answered yes to any of the above then ROSSENDALE PILATES is for you.
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Pilates is enjoyed by many famous sports personalities and actress around the world including Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Meg Ryan, and Sheryl Crowe .
Its not just for dancers and movie stars — it's for climbers, Tennis players, golfers,football players. For 60 years Pilates has proven itself as a superior method of cross training for athletes. As a climber, have you ever wished you were taller to make a big reach, or more flexible for a high step? Not only does Pilates make tall moves, high steps, and rock-overs easier, it improves your core strength and balance. In addition, Pilates helps keep your shoulders and elbows healthy and strong.
A growing number of top footballers and rugby players do Pilates as a way of improving co-ordination, mobility and flexibility, as well as for both recovering from injuries and preventing them in the first place.
“The first three weeks, I was really disappointed,” says Curt Schilling, who incorporated Pilates into his off-season training program last winter. “I wasn’t sweating. I wasn’t winded, which is what I associate with true exercise.
“Then in the fourth week I started to understand the Pilates terminology, the idea of working from your center. By the third month I was more powerful and flexible than ever before. And I’d lost 15 pounds.”
And how about golf? It turns outTiger Woods is not the only PGA golfer to implement Pilates. From reading up it turns out that this method is widely used by many pro golfers. This comes as no surprise due to the nature of golfing movements and the benefits of Pilates which run parallel to each other. The rotation of the torso, both with great power; speed and strength combined, requires stability not only of the mutlifidus and transverse abdominus but also strong hip flexors, obliques and gluteals. The golf swing performed at repetition can cause imbalance down one side of the body. Pilates helps to balance out the body, counteracting the force of the swing. It will also help golfers to activate the core as the primary mover and not the peripheral limbs.
Tennis Pro Roger Federer is another big fan of Pilates as is Matrina Navratilova, and Venus Williams "I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky."
Her regimen: Pilates two or three times a week ...Pilates gave me results within a week."
Serena Williams, Ranked World No. 1 in both singles and doubles, 13-time Grand Slam winner.
A Brief History Of Pilates
Joseph Pilates (born German) went to England in 1912, where he worked as a self-defense instructor for detectives at Scotland Yard. At the outbreak of World War I, Joe was interned as an "enemy alien" with other German nationals. During his internment, Joe refined his ideas and trained other internees in his system of exercise. He rigged bed springs to hospital beds with key rings , enabling bedridden patients to exercise against resistance, an innovation that led to his later equipment designs. After meeting his wife Clara they further developed a technique called contrology, and the holm technique. Pilates has evolved and is now widely used by dancers and fitness professionals and then became recognised as safe and effective theraputic rehabilitation by Physiotherapists. Pilates is now a household name widely recognised.
The 8 Principles of Pilates
1. Relaxation
Release unwanted tension from the body at the beginning of every session and feel fully relaxed at the end.
2.Concentration
Clear your mind and focus on your body as you exercise. Concentrate on each and every movement so that you are ‘in’ the movement itself, totally aware.
3.Alignment
Use this concentration to ensure that you are correctly placed before you exercise and when you move.
4. Breathing
Use lateral breathing. Breathe in wide and full into your sides and back. As you breath out, allow your ribs to close down and your breastbone to soften.
5.Centering
Maintain a strong centre as you move and as you breathe by gently drawing up the pelvic floor muscle and hollowing the navel to the spine.
6. Coordination
Coordinate your alignment, your breathing, your centering with your movements, true mind body movement.
7. Flowing movements
Control all your movements, lengthening away from a strong centre. Move without strain or stress, keeping the rhythm of the movement.
8. Stamina
Challenge your stability to improve endurance, building up your stamina slowly.
