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Core Goals: Pilates 101

Core Goals: Pilates 101

Melissa Baudo2023-12-21T14:39:56-05:00February 24th, 2019|Categories: Pilates Articles|Tags: Pilates, Injury Prevention, wellness, Recreation, Human behavior, Physical exercise, BASI Pilates, Tangolates, Joseph Pilates, Barre, Cross-training, Mind–body interventions, fitness, Physical culture, Bodyweight exercises, Romana Kryzanowska|

Core Goals: Pilates Are you looking for a strong core, enhanced mental awareness and whole body health? Well read on to learn more about how Pilates can help achieve your goals. What is Pilates? A mind-body exercise created by Joseph Pilates that provides daily conditioning, promotes whole body health and develops mental awareness to optimize your personal performance. “Pilates is complete coordination of body, mind and spirit. Through Pilates, you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then [...]

7 Key Factors for Successful Crossfit Performance Post-Rehabilitation

7 Key Factors for Successful Crossfit Performance Post-Rehabilitation

Melissa Baudo2023-12-20T01:09:20-05:00December 21st, 2018|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Crossfit Articles|Tags: Pilates, sports, Recreation, Human behavior, Squat, Powerlifting, Physical exercise, Squatting position, Individual sports, Deadlift, CrossFit, Nancy Pickett, Sports injury, CrossFit Games, Pull-up, Barbell, Bodyweight exercises, Mat Fraser|

The sport of Crossfit continues to evolve; asking the most elite athletes in the world to perform seemingly superhuman physical tasks. While the sport continues to test the boundaries of human form, there is always an ability to scale the movements for those more lay people, like myself. What is Crossfit? Crossfit defines itself as “constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity”. The most important principle to keep in mind when approaching an apparently impossible workout is the intended [...]

The Importance of Play

The Importance of Play

Alex Wilkins2023-12-20T05:28:52-05:00January 18th, 2018|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Performance Enhancement Articles, Wellness Articles, Pelvic Floor Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, General Information, Physical Therapists News|Tags: exercise, Physical activity, Summer Olympic sports, Health software, Fitness apps, workouts, Human activities, fitness, Cycle sport, Chloe, Physical exercise, Human behavior, Recreation, Medicine, Chloe Murdock, january, play, biking, cycling, new years resolutions, wellness, sports, health, Pilates, Physical Therapy|

Chloe Murdock PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS We’re two weeks into January, and gyms are bursting with people eager to keep their New Year’s resolutions. But how many of these people will be so zealously hammering away on the Stair Master in July? Becoming and staying active is very hard in our sedentary society, often because it becomes just another task on our “To Do” list. Adding one hour of exercise per day can cut into our social lives and time [...]

10 Minute Pilates Warm Up

10 Minute Pilates Warm Up

Alex Wilkins2018-11-19T19:12:55-05:00October 25th, 2017|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, General Information, Pilates Articles, Prevention Articles|Tags: Pilates, Tennis, health, athlete, warm-up, running, sports, exercise, Medicine, Human behavior, Powerlifting, Physical exercise, Deadlift, Warming up, Muscular system, Soft tissue, Gluteus maximus, Asanas, Waking|

Looking for a Great 10 Minute Pilates Warm-up? Do you find yourself waking up early, a little stiff from your night’s sleep, but wanting to get that early morning run or walk in before work? Or maybe you prefer after work, but find yourself feeling tight after driving in rush-hour traffic. Before you hit the road, you think about warming up all of the important muscle groups used in running and walking, but want something quick, yet effective! Here are [...]

Moving Better // Redcord x Pilates

Moving Better // Redcord x Pilates

Alex Wilkins2023-12-14T03:23:00-05:00October 4th, 2017|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Redcord Neurac Articles, Pilates Articles|Tags: Physical Therapy, Pilates, health, redcord, active, Medical Subject Headings, Squat, Powerlifting, Physical exercise, Muscular system, Soft tissue, Gluteus maximus, Hip muscles, Gluteal muscles, Muscles of the hip, Sumo deadlift, Musculoskeletal system, Joseph Pilates, Physical culture, Bodyweight exercises|

How do we Integrate Pilates and Redcord to Help Patients Move Better? Two exercise modalities offered at One on One are Redcord and Pilates. Both can be enormously beneficial to patients in rehabilitation, transitioning to fitness, and in maintaining strength and preventing injury or re-injury. Not only do these two modalities enhance rehabilitation and fitness alone, but they also compliment each other. When we get injured, compensatory patterns of movement and muscle engagement take hold. Often those patterns persist for [...]