The Pilates Bar featured in the Danskin Portable Pilates Studio is a unique prop that makes your workouts more enjoyable.
The Pilates Bar featured in the Danskin Portable Pilates Studio is a very good, inexpensive option to add variety and resistance to your [...]
Pilates reformers are the most popular piece of classic pilates equipment.
Pilates reformers are used in both exercise and rehabilitation clinics. Essentially, a pilates reformer consists of a padded, gliding platform called a carriage which rolls on rubber wheels along rails attached inside a long rectangular frame. On the carriage of the [...]
Pilates Mat by Danskin: a favorite amongst pilates practitioners
When practicing the pilates mat work it helps to have a slightly cushioned, non-slip surface to work on. Traditional yoga mats are stable enough but do not supply much cushioning or support. The Danskin Deluxe Pilates [...]
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Pilates props come in a host of sises and shapes. Pilates props include mats, bands, rollers, rings, wobble boards and rotation discs, blocks and balls to name just a few of the most common. These diverse pilates props, as well as other small apparatus and equipment are not [...]
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Is pilates exercise or therapy?
Pilates is a body mind conditioning practice created by Joseph Pilates who developed the movement method almost a decade ago when he was inspired to heal and strengthen his own feeble body and then later to assist in the rehabilitation of WWII veterans bedridden from battle injuries. [...]
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A little history, a little magic, a little pilates circle
The pilates circle, also referred to as a fitness ring or the pilates magic circle, is one of the most distinct of small pilates props. Legend has it that Mr. Pilates got the idea [...]
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Stability balls make excellent pilates props.
Stability balls originally created in Italy and developed in Switzerland in a physical therapy clinic are popular everywhere today, used at home and at the gym, in health clubs and recreation centers, as well as yoga and pilates studios all across America. Balls are very popular [...]
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Dancers use logic, passion and pilates to create and support their aesthetic manifestations.
Dancers are rational artists and realistic mystics. To an aspiring ballerina, the dancer’s world is not just a fleeting figment of the imagination. It is a real entity, consisting of much grit and hard work. She must [...]
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How Fit Do Golfers Need to Be?
Not until Tiger Woods stepped onto the golf course were golfers ever thought to be considered amongst the super fit of high performance athletes. Most professional golfers maintained only a modest level of fitness because it was never considered to be a requirement for success. [...]
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Running is an excellent form of aerobic exercise when done correctly offering cardiovascular benefits as well as many peak moments of endorphin intoxication. However, if performed with poor mechanics, years of pounding the pavement can take its toll on the body. Over time running with poor posture [...]
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