The German body culture that shaped Joseph Pilates
Kneipp's water cures, Mensendieck's exercises for women and Steiner's eurythmy are often linked to Joseph Pilates, but only one link really holds up.
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What the core really is, and why it matters more as you age
Your core is far more than your abs: diaphragm, pelvic floor, deep trunk and hip muscles. Why that matters as you age, and how Pilates trains all of it.
A second career teaching Pilates, started at forty
What retraining as a Pilates teacher at forty involves: the training routes, real costs in time and money, early income, and office skills that carry over.
Was Joseph Pilates a sickly child? The story and the record
Studio biographies say Joseph Pilates beat asthma and rickets as a boy, but the story comes from later interviews and the evidence behind it is thin.
Plant protein for people who train: how much, and where to find it
How much protein active adults usually aim for, what complete protein and leucine mean, and the plant foods that do the most work, with a sample day.
How Pilates teachers progress clients from basic to advanced
How good Pilates teachers decide when a client is ready for the next exercise, from readiness signs to springs, tempo and transitions, and why slow works.
Romana Kryzanowska and the survival of the classical method
Romana Kryzanowska learnt from Joseph Pilates as a teenage dancer and kept his studio and classical system going for decades after his death in 1967.