Hearts and Bones follow Pilates’ 8 exercise principles. Our functional training programmes use the latest research in exercise science to help you rehabilitate or improve your performance.
Joseph Pilates devised his exercise method from research and instinct and developed different programmes for clients based on their individual needs. As a result, many of his early students, who later became the first generation of Pilates teachers (the Pilates 'elders'), used different approaches to the method.
However, the principles guiding the teaching stayed the same, and its more flexible approach allows Pilates today to include new ideas in physiotherapy and movement therapies.
Pilates teaching follows Joseph's 8 guiding principles. These principles are (with quotes from Joseph Pilates' books: Return to Life through Contrology or Your Health):
At Hearts and Bones, our Pilates exercise method is constantly evolving along with advances in exercise science. Our Pilates programmes use functional training to help you return to doing your activities or reach your goals for performance.
Functional training uses exercises that mimic and develop the way your body moves in your activity so that you can perform actions more easily.
For example, if you need to repeatedly lift heavy objects, your training will use exercises that develop your body for heavy lifting. If you are a marathon runner, our training will focus on building endurance and balancing and stabilising your muscles and joints.
Thank you very much for your guidance and knowledge over the past three years at the school. We are all aiming to get to Barbados to fully appreciate our champagne bubbles up the spine and catch a few mermaids."
- The third years of 2005
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