Peak Pilates: The Language of Pilates Questions and Answer | Latest Update 2024/2025
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Peak Pilates
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Peak Pilates
Advancements
~~> Challenges to an exercise that make it more difficult. This
happens by performing the exercise on another apparatus, taking one
foot or hand away, working with fewer springs, or raising the center of
gravity.
Alignment
~~> The placement of body parts in relationshi...
✓ ~~> A concept that describes how each exercise is stabilized by the
Powerhouse and supported by the critical connections. The entire
body holistically provides an additional sense of stability, a feeling of
heaviness or anchoring, to support the parts that are moving. For
example, during One Leg Circle the entire back of the body stabilizes
to provide a solid base from which the movement of the leg can
emanate from. "Lying in wet cement" is an image often used to
reinforce this sensation.
Arms Move From the Back
✓ ~~> This phrase underscores the awareness that arm movements
initiate the back of the Powerhouse. Ideally, the serratus anterior and
trapezius depress and stabilize the scapula for correct arm movement,
thereby eliminating over-recruitment of the shoulder and chest
muscles.
Articulate
✓ ~~> The act of stacking one vertebra at a time, lifting bone by bone,
or rolling down and releasing the vertebrae onto the mat one
vertebrae at a time. Spinal articulation prevents jerky, out-of-control
movements and increases flexibility of the spine.
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
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