Pilates Exercise Mat
Pilates Mat, Using the Pilates Exercise Mat for Matwork by BASI™
The next major portion of the Body Arts and Science International
Pilates exercise involves the Pilates mat. The Pilates mat
is designed to provide you with a safe, stable foundation upon which
to build your Pilates experience. The Pilates exercise mat is meant
to complement the stretching, strengthening role of the Pilates
ball and resistance workouts involved in Pilates exercise. The other
Pilates exercises have challenged the body through building muscles,
nurturing healthier muscle tone, and teaching more efficient movement.
These methods have a true complement in the challenging Pilates
exercise mat workouts.
The Pilates mat has a primary role of supporting the body while
it learns how to move and support itself. Pilates mats are made
in all sizes and dimensions to fit your body. Your Pilates exercise
mat is the perfect size for you. Some of your practice on the
Pilates mat is for stretching, breathing and learning exercise positions.
Every Pilates mat gives you the grip and cushioning you need to
warm up, stretch and exercise until you can move in ways you have
only imagined and never thought possible before.
Exercises done on the Pilates mat range from beginner to very advanced.
BASI qualified instructors start you off on simpler tasks to familiarize
yourself with breathing, stretching, and coordinated movement. As
you spend more time your body will learn how to move in more challenging
ways. The more you participate on the Pilates exercise mat,
the more strength you will build that can support your body for
more advanced technique. Our first commitment is to providing our
students with a working foundation from which you can build your
repertoire of movement mastery. This foundation from which the Pilates
exercise mat is based on is intended to give you the best possible
experience and fitness level. We are proud to offer instruction
on the Pilates mat to maintain the goals set out by Joseph Pilates.
When he began teaching his methods, it was simply to offer a better
level of fitness to anyone interested in a higher quality of life
and exercise. He began devising the system of original exercises
known today as 'matwork,' or exercises done on the Pilates exercise
mat. A few years later he used his regimen, 'contrology,' as a nurse
and caretaker to the many men struck with wartime disease and physical
injury. Even after the war, Joseph was the outspoken force behind
these methods, and his wife Clara, a trained nurse, quietly incorporated
his concepts and exercises in ways that benefited more seriously
ill or injured clients. The Pilates mat was especially useful because
it reduces the strain on heart and lungs. It is partly because of
that the Pilates exercise mat is associated with a positive
form of movement-based exercise that is adjusted to your level of
health and fitness.
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