Pilates is the complete coordination of the mind, body and spirit works muscles you didn't even know you had let's you gently get your strength up classes are available online or in the studio isn't a new fad but around since the 1920s
Michelle Given = givenpilates
My love for exercise and fitness started at a very young age where I competed both at national and international level in Athletics. I graduated with a bachelor of business and French degree. I went straight into the corporate world where I worked with Bank of Ireland for over 12 years. I then took a sabbatical for 2 years and moved to Bournemouth in England to study fitness. I qualified as a fitness instructor and then as a personal trainer. On my return I knew my love was in the fitness industry so I applied for voluntary redundancy. It was then I decided to do my teaching in Pilates. I was first introduced to Pilates in my mid 20s due to ongoing back problems. It was here also where I did my teacher training with Body Firm Pilates in Dublin. I teach both mat and reformer Pilates. There are so many benefits from practicing Pilates and I see it daily through my clients. Notably pain free from an injury is the best and when someone says “Im like a new person since I started Pilates”. As Joseph Pilates once said “ Your as young as your spinal column”
“You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.”
Michelle is a pilates instructor a nutrition advisor a Boxercise PT Instructor a Spinning & TRX instructor
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"We retire too early and we die too young. Our prime of life should be in the 70’s and old age should not come until we are almost 100"
“If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. If it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.”
“Change happens through movement and movement heals.”
“You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.”
“I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They'd be happier.”
“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.”
“When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.”
“A man is as young as his spinal column.”
“Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.”
“Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.”
“It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.”
“Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.”
“Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.”
“A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.”
“Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.”
“Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.”
“Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.”
“Contrology (pilates) develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.”
“This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting snows on mountains in the hinterlands cause rivers to swell and rush turbulently onward to the sea, so too will your blood flow with renewed vigor as the direct result of your faithfully performing the Contrology (pilates) exercises.”
“Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.”
“As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.”
“It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.”
“Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.”
“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young.”
“A man is as old as his spine is flexible!”
“The science of Contrology disproves that prevalent and all-too-trite saying; 'You're only as old as you feel.' The art of Contrology proves that the only real guide to your true age lies not in years or how you THINK you feel but as you ACTUALLY are as infallibly indicated by the degree of natural and normalflexibility enjoyed by your spine throughout life.”
“By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?”
“I'm fifty years ahead of my time!”
“Every moment of our life can be the beginning of great things.”
“Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles at the expense of all others with resulting loss of grace and suppleness, or a sacrifice of the heart or lungs. Rather, it was conceived to limber and stretch muscles and ligaments so that your body will be as supple as that of a cat and not muscular like that of the body of a brewery-truck horse, or the muscle-bound body of the professional weight lifter you so much admire at the circus.”
“Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.”
“I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.”
“The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the very best preventive medicines provided so freely and abundantly by nature”
“The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity.”
“Concentrate on the correct movement each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits. Correctly executed and mastered to the point of subconscious reaction, these exercises will reflect grace and balance in your routine activities.”
“It is the mind itself which builds the body.”
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Joseph Pilates