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Pilates At Home

November 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment

If you are tired of working out on a home gym that does not fit your body-type or fitness level? Tired of having your workout equipment take up most of the room in your home? Find it difficult to design an exercise regimen to suit your purposes? Now you can solve all those problems without resorting to professional help. Switch to the Pilates Power Gym.

Multiple resistance levels provide for a more intense and effective workout. This means that anyone can use it irrespective of age, strength level, or body-type. In moments, you can adjust the Pilates Power Gym so that it becomes your own strength-training machine, crafted to perfection to suit your demands.

Pilates is the perfect way to attain that perfectly toned shape you’ve always wanted, and now it’s available to you in the comfort of your home. Pilates can easily be worked into any exercise regime that you already pursue, for a comprehensive workout. You can concentrate on a particular problem region, and work at accomplishing perfectly toned abdomen, arms, legs, back etc. without increasing muscle mass.

The Pilates power gyms strong carbon steel frame can bear up to 16 stone of weight. The machine also comes with multiple slope levels and various resistance cords in order to allow adjustments, according to the needs of the user. It is built to provide absolute comfort, with padded handles, and comfortable foot straps. It provides for the slow movements that are necessary for Pilates to strengthen muscles, and the spine.

The Pilates power gym comes with an instructional Pilates DVD, which presents and explains the many unique exercise choices available to you with the machine, you can use this DVD guide to try many unique workout routines, and to plan your own system. Unlike most other exercises, Pilates is suitable for individuals of almost all ages and physical condition, because it is a low-impact method, aimed at achieving the best results.

Pilates is also the best solution for problems such as arthritis, lower-back pain, and bad posture. It deals with muscle related issues by strengthening the core postural muscles and adjusting body alignment. Doing a variety of Pilates exercises, improves muscle control, muscle strength and improves joint mobility. Although Pilates works best and returns better results if they are practiced together with other more vigorous exercises including jogging or brisk walking.

The Pilates power gym is lightweight and can be stashed away easily, saving you space, while providing you with all the benefits any regular Pilates machine does, and much more. Switch to the Pilates Power Gym and experience a complete full-body workout, in the comfort and privacy of your living room.

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Pilates Chair

November 12, 2008 By 1 Comment

Over ten years ago Carroll Krieff became the Pilates instructor to the rich and famous when she opened her very own full-service Pilates studio in Malibu. It was the first of its kind in Malibu. Carroll had always been naturally athletic, but early on she found that by doing Pilates, her body became more lithe and dancer-like, rather than large and overly muscular like that of a body builder.

After graduating from the Performing Arts Physical Therapy Studio in Los Angeles, she opened her studio which was immediately a success. She discovered the Malibu Pilates Chair to attain quick results in a short amount of time. This was especially a hit with famous people who wanted to get toned fast for particular roles. Carroll does her best to make workouts fun. She does not want her clients to feel like they are working. Individuals tend to believe her because of her easy-going, warm personality.

Pilates isn’t a Hollywood secret anymore. Women and men across the state use this time-tested method to lose weight, strengthen their core muscles, and make long, slender, attractively sculpted muscles.

But umpteen at-home practitioners have found that no matter how many videos they use or Pilates Classes they take, they just aren’t getting the results they see in magazines. Stars of stage and screen don’t do Pilates the way it is taught in the gym scene they have personal trainers who provide expensive Pilates machines that add resistance and extra stretch to encourage quick, powerful results. These medieval-looking machines can cost thousands of dollars and can take up the space of a small bedroom.

The features that make the Malibu Pilates Chair so different are the adjustable spring resistance, and the split-step pedals. Simply do some easy, flowing cardio moves. The spring resistance will help support your body as well as exercise your muscles, sculpting your legs, arms, thighs, and buns. Your abs will tone up with every move. You can set the resistance as you get stronger. This will keep your heart rate up and the number of calories your burn. The split-step pedals cause you to be able to work your arms and legs individually or in concert.

The Malibu Pilates Chair works by directing core muscle groups just like Pilates Matwork but also adds some resistance and aerobic work to get the heart rate and metabolism up and burning excess calories. Movements that concentrate on building strong arms, legs, buns, and thighs also work the abs, helping to build a strong core that helps brace and center the body preventing harm and encouraging overall health.

The Malibu Pilates Chair is light and closes up for easy storage. You wont have to care about big bulky equipment taking up your room. However, the chair is still very sturdy and safe. Carroll Krieff guarantees that you will lose a whole size within 10 days of using the Pilates chair for only 20 minutes a day! If you do not, you can get a refund. As a matter of fact, if for any reason you are not content within the first 30 days of using the chair you can return it for a refund. The Malibu Pilates Chair also comes with A variety of useful Pilates Workout DVDs.

Naturally the most apparent benefits of using the chair are weight loss and iinches lost all over the body. However, there are additional benefits as well. Your muscles will be toned and you will have more energy. Carroll used the Pilates chair after each of her 3 pregnancies. Each time she bounced back quicker and felt even better than she had before she got pregnant! Order yours today to see a healthier, leaner, and more fit you within the next month!

And what are those results? According to current surveys, they’re just what Krieff promises fast, effective weight loss (some commentators report losing up to 40 pounds), a reshaped body (4-8 inches off the waist), and a strong core that supports the body no matter what you put it through each day.

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Free Pilates Workouts – Are They Any Good?

October 30, 2008 By 1 Comment

These days individuals are used to getting things “Free” . They don’t want to pay for information and assume that if it’s “Free” it’s got to be good.

But when it comes to Pilates, getting “Free” exercises may not always be the best approach. Let me explain:

Whenever you do Pilates Exercises there are two things you must always consider.

Are they suitable

Pilates exercises are good because they are designed to work particular muscles in a safe and effective way. The only way you are really going to know if you are performing a Pilates move correctly is to be watched by a certified instructor in a class. If you attempt to do Pilates at home, on your own, from a book or a DVD how, in Heaven’s name are you going to know if you’re “doing it right”?

Even if you are fortunate enough to have all round mirrors (and and most people don’t), as soon as you turn your head to check you’re in the right posture, you will be out of alignment. Some of the teaching points for a Pilates workout are subtle, and sometimes even for an experienced instructor they can be difficult to spot in a client.

Pilates is very “hands on”. In other words, your instructor (as well as giving you spoken cues to help you get into the right position), may come over to you and gently move you around, so that you can feel the emphasis of that particular exercise in the right group of muscles. Therefore, a novice attempting to teach themselves will get none of this required feedback.

I’m not saying for a moment that no -cost downloadable Pilates workouts – or those learnt from a book or DVD for that matter, aren’t worthwhile. Frankly, any exercise that you do will benefit you.

And if you do Pilates At Home, you will get an idea of what Pilates is all about and whether you would enjoy going to a class. You will be able to practice at home what you have discovered in class – and you will be reminded of all the teaching points before you do the exercise.

People are odd; if they book and pay to come to a private class they tend to turn up on time, be far more ordered about attending regularly and therefore, get most benefit from Pilates.

Nevertheless, in my experience, if the classes (same studio, same instructor!) come as part of a membership package at a gymnasium, consistent attendance takes a nosedive! Because they are getting the class for nothing (sort of), they often don’t bother to turn up on a regular basis (It was raining: I was tired: I thought I’d go to LatinoGrooveAerobics instead; etc) and when they do turn up, a lot of them are just going through the motions – because they haven’t been coming often enough for it to make any difference whatsoever.

The trouble with “free” is that people tend to appreciate things in direct proportion to how much money they’ve paid out. And to get anywhere with Pilates, you have got to do it on a regular basis.

Whether they come free or not, Pilates exercises are immeasurably valuable. Just do them.

Just imagine how fantastic you’ll feel when you live life with a body that is free from aches and pains.

That’s the promise of doing Pilates exercises regularly. I’ll show you how Pilates has made me stronger, fitter and more flexible than when I was much younger, and how it could do the same for you.

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