Great work from everyone who attended the Brighton & Hove Classical pilates workshop @ Crossfit Hove. It was good to see how Classical Pilates can help athletes connect and strengthen those deep abdominals, which will help a great deal in any lifting(power or Olympic lifting), gymnastic movements etc.
We spoke about how Pilates can help with maintaining correct health for the spine, stretching and lengthening, which is important for any lifting practitioner.
If you are interested about crossfit please check out the website www.crossfithove.blogspot.com and have a chat with Miles who is the Coach and owner of the affiliate.
Any crossfitters that attended the workshop are welcome to join the classes on a Wednesday night
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Thursday 17 March 2011
Workshop!
Tonight Brighton & Hove Classical pilates are giving a workshop for the atheletes at Crossfit Hove. We will go through history, benefits exercises and more. This is free for all members of Crossfit Hove! Please check out the Crossfit Hove website @http://www.crossfithove.blogspot.com/
Monday 14 March 2011
Spine Articulation
There are many expressions or verbal cues used to convey the mobility of the spine. Whenever you hear "articulate the spine" or " roll the spine vertibra by vertibra", your goal is to work through each part of the spine, mobilising and seperating each vertibra.
As you roll and un-roll the spine, you may feel sections that resist mobilty. Now these spots are the areas that you need to linger and breath into, to increase the opening of the area. Whether you are rolling up or rolling down, you must concentrate on actively creating a "C" shape of the spine to increase mobility and strength.
" If you feel stiff in the spine at 30 you are old, if you feel flexible in the spine at 60 you are young" Joseph H Pilates
Monday 7 March 2011
Great Start!!!
Well done to everyone who started the first Brighton & Hove Classical Pilates course. It was great to work on the fundamentals for the basic class, to really find the lower abs connection especially on exercises like the 'roll back' which is such so important in the beginning and the flow of the class.
For those who went straight in the Intermediate, again reiterating those underling principles which are so important, but developing the pace and transitions from one movement to the other Cool!
The more we can work on the basics for both levels the more you will notice a change in the class flow and in your bodies and a growing number of exercises to your repertoire.
The more we work on these movements the more you will understand the six principles, which I will discuss in a later post.
" It is the mind that navigates the body" Joseph Pilates.
Great work! Keep working!!
For those who went straight in the Intermediate, again reiterating those underling principles which are so important, but developing the pace and transitions from one movement to the other Cool!
The more we can work on the basics for both levels the more you will notice a change in the class flow and in your bodies and a growing number of exercises to your repertoire.
The more we work on these movements the more you will understand the six principles, which I will discuss in a later post.
" It is the mind that navigates the body" Joseph Pilates.
Great work! Keep working!!
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