Pilates Equipment
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Home Made Sticky Pads
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Whenever you hang from or stretch from the trapeze on the cadillac, do you feel your hands painfully transform into raven-like claws from holding onto the bars? Ouch!
Do your feet cramp during Parakeet on the tower?
Or do you slip backwards on the chair during leg pumps on the chair?
One of my favorite ways to almost […]
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Building Your Home Pilates Gym, Part 2
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If you’ve read my previous post and decided that you have the space and desire to add pilates equipment to your at-home gym, here are some suggestions of equipment to buy. This selection is based on what takes up the least amount of space, yet offers the most possible exercises.
Reformer/Tower ComboIf you want a […]
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Building a Pilates Home Gym, Part 1
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If you’ve been practicing pilates for years and feel like you want to add a few pieces of equipment to your home gym, you might be wondering which pieces allow the most exercises and take up the least amount of space.
I’m going to make some equipment suggestions in the next post, but first its […]
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Pilates Push Up Bars
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Check out these push up bars designed by Joseph Pilates himself and manufactured by Gratz today. They are super cool looking and super challenging to use!
They’re taller and heavier than most push up bars. When you step back into a plank position, place your hands on the bars, and do push ups, you not only […]
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The Tower
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The tower is great because it takes up less space than a full cadillac, and allows you to do most of the same exercises. It’s actually very similar to the Cadillac, without the long bars, foot fuzzies, and trapeze along the top. Since it takes up less space, a studio can usually hold more than […]
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Light Springs Versus Heavy
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When you think of weightlifting, or working out in general, your brain may automatically assume that heavier weights or resistance is harder compared to light. In some cases, this may be true. But in pilates, there’s more to it than you might expect.
At Rhinebeck Pilates, when I switched everyone over from super heavy leg […]
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The Barrels
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The Barrels are great pieces of equipment for stretching and working out on. I love the Ladder Barrel so much that I used to have one in my living room just so I could stretch on it anytime I wanted!
It is said that Joseph Pilates created the barrel by slicing a large beer barrel in […]
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Furniture By Pilates
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Did you know that Joseph Pilates invented many pieces of furniture to help bring fitness and body awareness into our everyday lives? Today, pilates studios are full of his recognizable pilates equipment, but there were many other similar pieces of equipment that he personally used, advertised, and advocated.
He called his line of furniture, “Pilates […]
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The Foot Corrector
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The Foot Corrector is one of the least often used pieces of pilates equipment, even though it is simply amazing. This small, simple apparatus helps strengthen and stretch the muscles of the foot and lower leg. The exercises are done in a standing position, one foot at a time. It is best to work through […]
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The Cadillac
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The Cadillac is the largest piece of pilates equipment you will find in any studio today. Its large size is where it got its name- after Joe built his piece of equipment in his New York studio, someone came into the studio and remarked of its size- “What a Cadillac!” It is also known as […]
