Here is a motivational tip for personal growth, development, and self-improvement. Are you ready to BECOME the Change you want to SEE for health improvement and wellness success?
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A Motivational Tip for Personal Growth & Wellness Success: BECOMING
The Importance of Form for Functional Movement and Whole-Body Health
Are your daily habits helping or hurting your body? Do you want to feel great and can’t figure out why you don’t? Is form and functional movement something that you focus on during your workouts and daily-life activities?
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Core Conditioning Exercise Tips To Improve Pilates Exercise Technique
Abs vs. Thighs: The Pilates Hundred Exercise
with Feet in Straps or Leg Springs
This article is PART 4 OF 6 – in the series of articles about Abs vs. Thighs. To effectively work the Abdominals for core conditioning it is optimal to target the core when the Quadriceps muscles are relaxed.
To help get the Quads relaxed, it is most effective to strengthen the opposing muscle groups, which would be the Glutes and Hamstrings.
In the first three articles in this series we focused on becoming more aware of using the core, relaxing the Quads, and starting to feel the backs of the legs activate to support Abdominal strengthening and improving core conditioning.
Now it’s time to progress that short-lever strength you’ve been working on to long-lever support.
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Strength or Length? Motivational Tips for Improving Functional Movement
Strength or Length? Which Is More Important To Develop & Improve Functional Movement?
They are both important and balance is best. If you only have time to focus on one during a workout – choose strength. Work the body with strength-building exercises through a full-range of motion and you’ll develop functional strength and improve joint range of motion.
If you have very tight muscles and want the benefits of a good stretch – focus on strengthening the opposing muscles to give you maximum benefits for improving functional movement, strength, and flexibility.
Here Are A Few Examples of Ways To Use Strength Training Exercises to Develop Both Strength & Flexibility:
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Do You “Tune-Out” When You Work Out? Tips To Improve Functional Movement & Whole-Body Health
Health Improvement can encompass a lot of different things. Depending on your wellness goals, the focus can be on fitness, diet & nutrition, stress-management, or a number of other things necessary to take care of your body and enjoy good health.
One of the all important things on a Health Improvement list is fitness. Daily exercise and an active lifestyle is critical for maintaining good health. And good functional movement is critical with every exercise to keep your body safe and injury-free while improving your strength, flexibility and overall wellness.
There are some people that “tune-out” when they workout!
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Foot Fitness Tips for Alignment of Your Feet, Ankles, and Heels
Alignment of the feet, ankles, & heels is important for foot fitness. It can affect posture, functional movement, gait for walking & running, and may also be a factor for risk of injury, causing foot pain, knee pain, or even back pain! We stand, we walk, we run, we stretch our calf muscles, but a lot can be happening at the heels that will affect body alignment, posture, functional movement, your ability to move well, and stay injury-free. Let’s see what you notice about what your heels are doing when you rise on your toes and lower your heels.
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Abs vs. Thighs: For Effective Core Conditioning – Strengthen the Hamstrings & Glutes
Lots of people focus time during their workouts on improving core conditioning with abdominal exercises.
But when the initiation to do the work for a sit-up exercise starts with the hip flexors and Quads, it limits the ability to move freely for functional movement and full range of motion. Plus, while the abs might fatigue in the process – they are not being effectively utilized to do the work for optimal benefits from your Ab work.
Here are some Pilates tips to help increase the effectiveness of your Abdominal strengthening exercises, and improve free range of motion at the hip for effective core conditioning.
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Motivational Tip: How To Improve Functional Movement
Function Follows Good Form.
To keep your car running smoothly it needs gas, oil, and an occasional tune-up to keep it functioning.
For movement and health our bodies will get stronger, more fit, and flexible faster if we practice good form with every exercise we do.
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What is Functional Movement?
Functional Movement is the ability to move the body with proper muscle and joint function for effortless, pain-free movement. Learning how to be bio-mechanically efficient with everything you do, whether it’s for sports and athletics, general fitness, or daily life activities, is very important for maintaining good health and avoiding injury.
You would think that automatically our bodies would just work well…but this is generally not the case. From birth, we begin to develop dominant and weaker muscles. Lack of physical activity can increase poor muscle use habits, and any injury or accident can further limit the body’s ability to develop in a well-balanced manner. The result, we never fully utilize optimal form or support to train functional movement systems for whole-body health.
If we repeatedly move our body with bad posture, or poor body mechanics, our joints don’t have enough space for our bones to move freely, and the muscles that should be moving our bones can’t fire effectively creating limitations in our range of motion, and muscle imbalances which in time can lead to injury. Not only can our poor functional movement habits lead to injuries, but the body will accept these muscle habits as the way to always move!
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Centerworks Pilates Teacher-Training Workshop: Basic Pilates Matwork
Register NOW…To get started with a rewarding career
as a Pilates Professional!
Basic Pilates Mat Workshop
Dates: May 4 – 6, 2012
Hours: Fri.,10am-6pm, Sat.,10am-6pm, Sun., 10am-4pm
Registration: By Phone:
Call Aliesa – cell: (316) 734-5360
or call Kasondra at Prime Concepts Group: (316) 942-1111
This is YOUR chance to become a GREAT Pilates Mat Teacher!
- Enjoy a Rewarding Career in Mind-Body Health & Wellness – Teach Pilates Matwork!
- Gain the knowledge and skills you need to successfully teach a Basic Pilates Mat class.
- Starting with Fundamental and Beginner Pilates Matwork exercises – Develop Your Expertise.
- Acquire strong teaching skills for seeing, cueing, and spotting.
- Learn how to progress new Pilates Mat students into a solid Basic program.
- Discover the brilliance of the Pilates Matwork system and how the development of the mind-body connection is key for whole-body health & wellness.
- Enjoy the benefits of helping others improve their whole-body health and quality of life with Pilates!
Required Workshop Resources
- Centerworks® Basic Matwork Manual
- Book/DVD set – Posture Principles for Health, by Aliesa George
- Book – Return to Life Through Contrology, by Joseph H. Pilates
Required Materials for the Basic Mat workshop are not included in workshop fees.
These resources can be purchased separately at http://www.Centerworks.com/store
or ordered by phone when you register for the workshop.
Workshop Location:
Centerworks® Studio,
2637 N. Shefford, Wichita, KS 67205
Payment Options: Cash/Check/CC-Visa, MasterCard, AmEx
- Full Payment of $750
- Payment Plan $250 Deposit (due now) + $500 balance (on or before May 4th)
*There are two additional Matwork Workshops – Intermediate & Advanced to complete the “Matwork only” portion of
this program. The Basic Mat Workshop is the first in a series of eight Centerworks Pilates Teacher-Training
Workshops to become a comprehensively trained Pilates Teacher. Dates for the additional 2 Mat workshops and 5
equipment workshops to complete the series will be scheduled to meet the needs of the group enrolled in the Basic
Mat workshop who intend to complete the full Centerworks® Pilates Teacher-Education Program.
**To provide you with an excellent hands-on learning experience, a minimum of 4, and maximum of 8 participants
enrolled by April 30th is required for this workshop to be held. Please register early to reserve your spot!
Download a Copy of the Workshop Flyer: Centerworks_Pilates_TT_Basic-Mat-Flyer-May 4-6-2012
