What is Standing Pilates?
Standing Pilates adapts many of the classic Pilates mat-work exercises, taking them from the mat to an upright standing position. This allows you to use your body weight for resistance. A great bone density development benefit. In Standing Pilates, the use of a harness -the TYE 4 helps in creating a continual workout challenge for those who are keen to try it. Standing Pilates provides a link between the Pilates mat work and everyday movement. It enhanced functional living in today’s lifestyle.
Benefits of Standing Pilates
Standing Pilates evolved from the need for more weight bearing exercises for today’s population, especially older bodies. Doing Pilates exercises while standing teaches the body and mind to improve deeper connections, to re-pattern old movement habits. It challenges you to better align for an effective efficient body. Some key benefits of Standing Pilates include:
- Addresses & prevents osteoporosis
- Improves overall upright balance & co-ordination
- Promotes keeping body in lengthen position
- Builds core pelvic alignment and placement of weight distribution
- Develop deep focus on pelvic floor (core)muscles
- Enhance overall daily task performance; functional fitness
- Builds stamina & form
The muscles of the pelvic floor play a key role in maintaining balance, so anyone who needs to strengthen and stabilize that area (basically all of us) will benefit from Standing Pilates. Standing Pilates is particularly suitable for those with pelvic floor integrity issues, such as post partum mothers or those suffering incontinence. If you need to develop your balance or counter the loss of it, take Standing Pilates to see the difference. Seniors and people with Parkinson’s disease are highly recommended too.
If you are not as flexible, have some difficulty getting up and down or cannot lie down for any length of time, you can achieve that with Standing Pilates.
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