Thames Valley Pilates with HS Fitness UK
Join our Pilates classes at home, Have an amazing workout in the comfort of your own space. Practice along with our live Zoom Classes and view pre recorded sessions through your online membership account. Get started via the links below or contact us here.
Thames Valley Pro Pilates with HS Fitness UK
Join our Pilates classes at home, Have an amazing workout in the comfort of your own space. Practice along with our live Zoom Classes and view pre recorded sessions through your online membership account. Get started via the links below or contact us here. Class Timetable Join Online MembershipAbout HS Fitness UK
I have been a sportsperson all my life, I began to look into Pilates and the benefits it had to my body after years of endurance training. Pilates has helped me and many others of all ages and genders to improve our physical strength and wellbeing. Find out moreThames Valley Pro Pilates
Pilates is a gentle but effective whole body workout challenging you to new physical poise and energy, plus greater mental strength. If you are recovering from an injury, operation or accident, Pilates will help you to regain your strength, mobility and flexibility. Find out moreThe Benefits of Pilates in Sport
Sport and Pilates may not seem like the partnership every sportsperson thinks of. In all sports though, to be good and continue with our chosen love, we need to take our body and muscles one step further, so our chosen sport becomes natural and effortless for many years. Using Golf as an example, Pilates will put emphasis on your rotation, your spine flexibility, and your trunk stability. The slow controlled moves will take your body slightly further than you do in play. The slow moves mean you will work your muscles much deeper and therefore find extra power and strength that you will not find otherwise. All this in turn will prevent injuries, such as over rotation, as your body will be used to the extra rotation in a controlled way. Do you ever feel that your swing is cut short, you whip the ball? This is because your muscles have reached the maximum length they can go, so your body stops. Limitations need to be addressed at the source. This is the same for all sports.
Racket sports in particular are very one sided. What I mean by that is a player always swings to the same side. This in turn overuses many muscles, but weakens unused muscles too, which in turn causes a massive imbalance in the whole body. Just imagine, if all those muscles you don’t use were strengthened too to support the muscles which you do use – how strong would you be!
I always remember an interview Pat Cash gave after he won Wimbledon in 1987. When asked why he thought he had won, his answer was Pilates! He said that for the first time he had been focusing on the muscles that he didn’t use in Tennis, so that they were strong to support the muscles he did use. It’s exactly the same in all Sports.
So, whether you are a Professional, or just love your sport as a hobby or a way to interact with colleagues, you need to keep the whole body strong. Many people have come to me over the years of all ages saying that they love Golf, Tennis, Walking, Swimming etc., but have had to give it up as their backs hurt, or they don’t have the mobility in their shoulders or hips anymore, they can’t bend down to pick up their ball, or they simply haven’t got the stamina to walk far enough or finish a game anymore. I have managed to get each of them back to their love within a few weeks.
So, whether you are an Individual or a Business owner wishing to offer Pilates as an extra to your clients, do get in touch.
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