#Pilates anytime fitness professional

This has been seen in recent years with “Yogalates”, a combination of yoga and Pilates, or “Piloxing”, a combination of boxing and Pilates, or “Barre Pilates” – which is a popular option on Pilates Anytime, a combination of Pilates and typical ballet conditioning moves. It has been estimated over 10 million Americans practice Pilates, so it is inevitable that there will continue to be advancements, innovations and new ways to combine the Pilates system with other movement practices.

#Pilates anytime fitness professional

From the 1970s onwards, as celebrities in Hollywood began to embrace and tout the benefits of Pilates for sculpting lean, lithe muscles, it was embraced by many of the professional sporting leagues from baseball, basketball, ballet, football and also by Olympians. His students went on to adapt the Pilates system to embrace their own experiences. Joseph Pilates, the founder of the Pilates method, acknowledged that his system evolved as he worked with a greater variety of bodies and embraced different movement ideologies too.

Just as yoga has been brought into the modern age with an appreciation that our bodies and our lifestyles are entirely different to those of the sages, gurus and original yogis of Ancient India, so we must accept that Pilates was never designed to be a system of movement that didn’t evolve and adapt for different bodies and the demands of changing lifestyles: diets, work conditions, health conditions and the stresses of constant social media access and limited outdoors activity. Just as there’s so much variety in classes and options for when, where and how we train, there are also endless ways to practice Pilates. Far from the narrow offerings of step aerobics or boxing, there’s truly 50 Shades Of Workout these days. Even gyms, where it was once common to find a few treadmills, some barbells and a few clunky machines, have embraced more thorough class timetables, bigger stretching areas and the need for bands, balls and foam rollers. There are so many options when it comes to fitness and movement.