Who is Pilates Good For?

EVERYONE!

Body awareness is key. Whether you're looking to develop strength, flexibility mobility, mindfulness or a little "me-time", Pilates has something for everyone!

Pilates works from the inside out by targeting deep postural muscles to give you strength, balance, coordination, and poise, helping individuals achieve healthy bodies through optimal body alignment.

⁠When your body is properly aligned, you'll move with greater ease, experience less aches and pains, have more energy, and feel more confident!

What Is A Reformer?

A Pilates reformer machine looks like a bed frame. Rather than a mattress, the reformer has a platform on wheels that rolls up and down as you perform exercises.

The platform part is called the carriage. It's connected to the end of the frame by metal springs, and the springs create different levels of resistance. You use your body weight and muscles to push and pull the carriage along the reformer’s frame. Blocks on the carriage rest above your shoulders to ensure you don’t slide off the carriage as you work out.

The reformer also has a bar at one end, that w call the foot bar. The foot bar is adjustable to accommodate different exercises. During some exercises, you'll place your hands on the bar. During others, you'll use your feet. Opposite the bar on top of the machine is a set of long straps with handles. You can loop your hands or feet through the handles and use the straps to extend your arms or legs as part of certain moves.

The metal springs on the reformer machine are adjustable, which means that you can modify your exercises and resistance according to your fitness level, familiarity with Pilates moves and the build of your body.

The adjustability of the reformer makes Pilates attenable for individuals who are recovering from an injury, new to movement, or those seeking a intense balance and core workout.

Pilates for Everyone

At Pilates for Success, we believe that movement is medicine.

Pilates includes precise movements, focused breathing, and muscle engagement, enhancing muscle tone, mobility, stability and body awareness.

When you practice Pilates you are strengthening and stretching, moving and aligning, addressing imbalances in the physical body that if ignored can create aches and pains and possible injury.

Benefits Include

Pain relief, especially for lower back issues
Core strength
Posture
Flexibility
Balance
Coordination
Body awareness
Stress relief
Overall mental well-being

Pilates for Dancers

Pilates is a series of exercises inspired by calisthenics, yoga and ballet. Pilates is a great tool in helping dancers prevent or recover from injuries.

Dancers need an elite sense of body awareness. Body awareness is our internal understanding of where our body is in space and determines how efficiently we can move.

Pilates focuses on proper placement, and graceful and fluid movements that are the basis for many dance genres.

Pilates is vital to a dancer’s career and success because it lays a groundwork of strength, muscle connection, and coordination.

Whether it's performance season or an off-season, Pilates will compliment studio training by further developing strength and muscular balance, aiding in a healthy and strong body.

Pilates for Models

The list of models and celebs who love reformer Pilates is long. Kaia Gerber, Naomi Campbell, Miranda Kerr and Hailey Bieber to name a few.

Models need to know how their body moves so they can capture visually appealing images using their body.

Pilates focuses on fluid movements, posture, and flexibility, aiding in effortless movements allowing models to move through poses and on the Runway with grace, precision and ease.

Apart from helping with fluid movements, Pilates lengthens and strengthens muscles without creating bulk or tension, making it an ideal workout for models.