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How I learnt to love the Pilates Hundred. It was Cent to try me!

The Pilates Hundred Exercise: iconic, demanding and misunderstood The Hundred is one of the most famous Pilates exercises in the repertoire It is one of Joseph Pilates’ original 34, as outlined in his 1945 book, A Return to Life Through Contrology Back then Pilates didn’t have its eponymous name.   Joseph Pilates called his method Contrology […]

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Why I Don’t Cue The Core

I am a Pilates Instructor.  I don’t Cue the Core. All Pilates Instructors cue the core  don’t they? Not just Pilates Instructors either.   Also it is teachers in aqua aerobics, dance aerobics, HiiT (high intensity interval training) , Strength and Conditioning classes, Bootcamp, Spin classes.   I have encountered people who cue the core for when […]

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Not Running Up That Hill. Losing a regular exercise habit & how to regain it

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 Regular Exercise Habits: How do we form them and how do we sustain them? After years of the regular exercise habit of weekly running I have stopped.  The regular exercise habit just fell away.  It was not as “baked in” to my week. Why did I keep going for over 10 years  only to trip, […]

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