Pilates For Complete Beginners

An introduction to Pilates, Learning how to place yourself correctly before doing a class.

What you’ll learn
Why Pilates works
Safe and Effective Exercises
The Six Bisic Principles of Pilates
One at a time Pilates exercises explaining how to add all the principles
A full matworkout class
Requirements
An exercise mat or soft surface to work on
Clearance from your physician
A smile (not a must but hey)
Description
Pilates for Complete Beginners is designed to comfortably get you ready for a full Pilates class, which is also included in this course. Pilates is a type of exercise system where you place your body in the correct alignment for each exercise. By doing this you lower exercise related risks and improve the quality of each move is increased ten fold. Please ensure your physician has given you the thumbs up to exercise.The exercise of choice for people who aren’t into gym vibes and hardcore trainers. My approach is gentle. Building up is better than jumping into the deep end.”I never loved exercise until I was introduced to Pilates. I now do it 5 days a week” raves Sheila, whose been a client of mine for over a decade and is in her mid 70’s.The movements are done slowly – have you ever tried doing a push up slowly – it’s much more effective. p.s. we don’t generally do push ups in Pilates so please don’t loose interest yet. So it’s slow, controlled exercises where a smaller move is usually more effective than a bigger move. For this reason Pilates suits those who don’t want to sweat and get out of breath.When you can hold the correct positions while performing an exercise, you start to work multiple muscle groups and those muscle groups are the precise ones that correct your posture. Do you want to make your workout more effective? This is the method for you.There are Six Principles that oversee your Pilates practice. These include:- Breathing – Rib Placement – Shoulder Positions- Activating your Core muscles effectively – Head Placement – Lower Back placement Better than just improving your Pilates exercises you can then start to use these Six Principles when you do any other kind of exercise as well – Optimizing any fitness regiment you do.Once we’ve learnt these Principles we’ll start to build the foundation Matwork exercises (one at a time) incorporating all six steps simultaneously.This may sound daunting but you will get the hang of it easily. You can then spend time repeating these steps to grow your confidence or go on to do the full workouts provided.Before each workout you must do the warm up and after the workout please do the stretches provided. These steps are crucial to the safety of the exercises.Grant says “Pilates has completely changed my life, I’ve improved my performance on all my extreme sports and lowered the aches and pains that used to follow me daily”

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: A Brief History of Pilates

Lecture 2 History

Section 3: The Six Pilates Principles

Lecture 3 Breathing

Lecture 4 Rib Cage Placement

Lecture 5 Shoulder Positions

Lecture 6 Core Activation

Lecture 7 Head Positions

Lecture 8 Lower Back Placement

Section 4: Foundation Matwork Exercises

Lecture 9 Swan Dive Prep

Lecture 10 Spine Twist

Lecture 11 Half Roll Back

Lecture 12 Rolling Like a Ball Preparation

Lecture 13 Imprinting Toe Tap Series

Lecture 14 Knees Side to Side

Lecture 15 Hundreds

Lecture 16 Leg Circle

Lecture 17 Hip Rolls

Lecture 18 Obliques

Lecture 19 Scissors

Lecture 20 Swimming

Lecture 21 Heal Squeezes

Lecture 22 Side leg Lifts

Lecture 23 Side Inner Thigh

Lecture 24 Side Crunches

Lecture 25 Swan Dive

Lecture 26 Cat Stretch

Lecture 27 Saw

Lecture 28 Rolling Like a Ball

Lecture 29 Roll Downs

Lecture 30 Double Leg Stretch

Lecture 31 Knee Lifts

Lecture 32 Breast Stroke

Lecture 33 Plank

Complete beginners of any age