Pilates
Pilates for Athletic Performance Enhancement
Pilates enhances athletic performance by refining the body’s biomechanics, improving joint alignment, and fostering efficient energy transfer. By developing core strength, balance, and neuromuscular coordination, athletes can achieve greater power, precision, and control in their movements. This method acts as the fine-tuning mechanism, optimizing the body’s mechanics to maximize output and reduce injury risk.
Read MorePilates As A Resistive Exercise Method
Pilates is more than just stretching or core work—it’s a form of resistive exercise that uses your own body weight, spring tension, bands, and props to build strength, enhance joint mobility, and support bone health. This method promotes balance, posture, and deep muscle control, making it ideal for active aging and injury prevention. It’s a full-body, mind-body approach to strength training.
Read MoreEvery Body is a Pilates Body.
Pilates is not just for the stereotypical image of toned limbs and Hollywood physiques. At Inspire Health, the STOTT PILATES® method is tailored to be accessible and effective for individuals of all body types and health conditions. By customizing exercises to accommodate specific needs, such as osteoporosis, the program ensures safety and maximizes benefits, making Pilates a viable fitness option for everyone.
Read MoreSara’s Corner: For the Love of Pilates
Our love of pilates, in particular STOTT PILATES®, is pretty obvious. It is at the core of what we do. If you come to us for fitness, it may surprise you to know we use pilates as part of our physcial therapy program and many of my physical therapy clients are curious to know why we…
Read MoreSara’s Corner: Prehabilitation is the New Word
There’s a new word floating around in the physical therapy world; prehabilitation. The concept of preparing your body physically for a planned surgery, usually a joint replacement or other orthopaedic surgery, but really it could be any planned surgery or procedure. Research is starting to show there is benefits to this in the way of…
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