If you suffer from backaches, past-sports related injuries or have a general bad posture that you’d like to correct, then look to Pilates to help solve your problem. More than just an exercise, pilates teaches correct posture, helps spinal alignment and strengthens core abdominal muscles to help give a toner physique. No wonder many celebrities and models swear by pilates!
Celebrities who swear by pilates include the slim and svelte Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna who looks half her age and Jennifer Anniston who once commented that “I’m a Pilates person. It’s great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it’s completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I’m taller.”
During your first few sessions of pilates, you might notice muscles that you seldom use on a daily base getting a good workout. Focus Pilates’ trainers will impart much knowledge as well about the different types of muscles in your body and what exercises will best help you, as every individual’s body, gait, posture and spinal alignment is different. Their tips and exercises will train your awareness of your body, ensuring that you maintain better posture as you go about your daily activities. We tend to slouch or extend our neck too much as we are desk-bound at work most of the time in front of the computer screen, but pilates will soon help correct your posture back to its natural and rightful posture. If you’re looking to toning and getting rid of the flabby bits in your body, jogging for an hour will also help less than just 45 mins on a pilates machine which targets specific areas, making it a time and energy efficient form of exercise.
With Focus Pilates, you’re in good hands as it is the largest integrated pilates studio and physiotherapy clinic in Singapore & Asia. They provide world class quality pilates classes and even physiotherapy designed for fitness, rehabilitation and sports conditioning.
Their studios are fully equipped with group allegro reformers and dedicated studio areas for private sessions if those are more your cup of tea and you would like the private attention to focus on various areas. Focus Pilates also has internationally qualified physiotherapists who are also trained in pilates providing both traditional physiotherapy treatment and modified pilates rehabilitation for clients who suffer from various injuries.
Physiotherapists, doctors and chiropractors are increasingly recommending Pilates as one of the safest forms of exercise to help recuperation from sports injuries and even back injuries. Although at first sight, the array of equipment might seem intimidating, Focus Pilates’ trainers will help soothe your worries instantaneously and you will learn from them how to control the machines according to your present fitness level at the time, as they give lots of one-on-one attention and are very experienced thus will help to gauge what sorts of exercises and at what degree would help you best at this present time.
Focus Pilates’ studio has a comprehensive variety of Pilates equipment which include Pilates reformers, barrels, towers, and cadillac. These equipment might look bulky at first sight but can actually be easily used by children and the aged as well. In fact, pilates is highly recommended for the aged, even those above the age of 90, because it does not cause over-exertion to the body. There are certain pilates exercises that work very well for pregnant women as well as some which help post-natal recovery. Let the Focus Pilates’ studio trainers know what your particular concerns are and they can help you combat them. For the busy executive who might have a packed and erratic schedule, it is possible to take make-up classes if you miss a class as well; with Focus Pilates right in the middle of the city (Orchard), or close to the workplace (Raffles Place), keeping fit has never been easier.
To learn more about Focus Pilates and their courses, view their site at http://www.focuspilates.com.sg/
Focus Pilates is located at
302 Orchard Road Tong Building (next to Paragon)
#08-03
Tel: 67338785
and
20 Malacca Street, #12-00 Malacca Centre,
Raffles Place Singapore 048979
Tel: 6235 3938
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