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How to Use a Pilates Performer

The Pilates Performer is a smaller, budget version of the classic Pilates Reformer. It is designed for home, as opposed to studio use. While the machine is designed to work every muscle in your body, the core muscles should be actively…

How Many Calories Does Pilates Burn?

Pilates combines dance, yoga and body-weight strength exercises to help you create a strong core. The moves emphasize precision and control, so the workout doesn't elicit the same calorie burn as more intense movement such as running or…

Alisa Wyatt Pilates

Pilates is the creation of Joseph Pilates, who developed a novel exercise program in England during World War I and later in Germany. As Balanced Body explains, Joseph then emigrated to America in 1926 and opened a studio in the same…

Pilates for Serratus Anterior

The serratus anterior, located on either side of your chest alongside your ribcage, attaches to your shoulder and stabilizes your scapulae, enabling you to raise your shoulders and rotate your scapulae. Excessive protrusion of the shoulder…

Pilates vs. Fluidity Bar

Both the Pilates method and Fluidity Bar workouts promise practitioners a longer, leaner body. Both forms of exercise incorporate movements designed to strengthen the body's core while improving flexibility and sculpting the arms and legs.…

The Styles of Pilates Classes

Stepping into the world of Pilates, you'll find no shortage of different classes to take. The style of each class ultimately boils down to the type of Pilates it teaches. In virtually any case, however, Pilates offers an intensive,…