PILATES
Discover all the benefits of Pilates, a discipline taught at the Champion Spirit Academy in the 7th arrondissement, Paris. Book a Pilates class with our Sports Experts!
Pilates is a form of gymnastic exercise with proven health benefits, enabling practitioners to get back into shape and improve their physical condition through posture, mobility and resistance work. It makes use of muscles deep in the body.
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Pilates is a modern discipline developed in the 20th century. Pilates can truly be said to be a medical concept. Joseph Pilates, its creator, suffered from rickets and asthma in his youth. To turn his weaknesses around into strengths and to conceive his method, he first drew inspiration from nature.
He developed his first movements from the stretching patterns of the animal world. He then enriched his method with moves taken from a variety of sporting disciplines, with a philosophy strongly influenced by oriental methods such as Yoga.
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EXPERIENCED SKILLS
Posture
Switching between dynamic and static postures, regularly working deep muscles maintains and rebalances the body.
Resistance
Low-impact exercises enable muscle resistance to be developed over a long period of time.
Balance
The deep muscles used in the various exercises maintain the discs and vertebrae. Strengthening these muscles leads to improved balance.