Great little video describing how trigger points form and how to treat them.
We use and teach these techniques at Exhale! to help you remain pain-free.
New Video: Exhale! Pilates & Yoga Studio in Bothell, WA (September 2013)
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Our new promotional video was produced by Einar Johnson & Antonella Fragapane, cofounders of Pixel Bokeh, a video production company located in Seattle, WA. Great to work with, reasonable rates…. highly recommended if you are thinking of producing a video. Website URL: www.pixelbokeh.com
Barefoot Balance Training Improves Hip and Pelvic Stabilization
Podiatrist Emily Splichal effectively links the anatomy involved in balance training to hip and pelvic stabilization in this highly readable and referenced article:
Benefits of TRX Suspension Training… by NCSF
The National Council on Strength and Fitness (NCSF) published the following overview of TRX Suspension Training. Here are a few excerpts from the article:
“Suspension training appears to be a novel method of exercise with explicit benefits.”
“Suspension training creates a unique training stress for proprioceptive and stability enhancement not commonly experienced during more traditional training approaches.”
“It forces the participant to engage the ‘core’ musculature at all times to maintain proper body alignment… which can translate into enhanced core stability.”
“Suspension training has significant balance and coordination requirements, and forces the participant to train the body as a functional unit.”
“Overall, suspension training seems to be a great variation to reduce boredom, introduce different joint stresses to a program, and address multiple components of performance with each individual exercise.”
Archival video: Joe teaching Reformer and Cadillac to Eve Gentry
For teachers and advanced students only!!! This is a lengthy archival video demonstrating Joe’s teaching techniques with an advanced student and dancer Eve Gentry… a young protege who eventually opened a studio in New Mexico, and is now recognized as one of the original Pilates “elders”.
Archival video: Romana working on Reformer, etc. with Joe (includes voiceover)
Pilates defines 7 of the 10 Top Fitness Trends for 2013
(by Marsha Dorman)
Perhaps you’ve heard of Pilates or seen Pilates machines on TV, but what is Pilates, really…?
The Pilates Method is a system of exercises developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates, who brought the method from Germany to New York City in 1926. Performed on a mat, small equipment, and spring-based apparatus the Pilates method was called “contrology” by its founder and meant “discipline: control of the body, mind, breath and spirit.” Designed as “corrective exercise” Joseph Pilates also used the term “uniform development” to describe its potential benefits.