Athletes and pilates

At Clinique Inspiration, Pilates on appliances is used as a tool to help increase some important fitness determinants, no matter what sport you practice. In addition, Pilates is a method that promotes control and body awareness: two essential qualities in an athlete.

When you practice a sport and you repeat the same actions to perfect certain important movements for you discipline, you create, without wanting it, muscular imbalances. Some muscles are overtrained while others, on the contrary, are often left out. These muscle imbalances are often the cause of injuries. With your Pilates practice you will further develop your physical qualities, such as strength and muscular endurance, balance, coordination and structural factors (posture, alignment of segments, and control of the pelvis). The better are your improvements, the better your performance will be.

Contrology Science

As Joseph Pilates once said, “control is not a system of random exercices designed solely to develop inflated muscles.” The control system, now called Pilates, uses sequences of fluid movements that are intelligently linked in order to maximize the work of the postural muscles (deep abdominal, gluteus medius, latissimus dorsi, etc.) and reduce the work of superficial muscles (quadriceps, trapeze, etc.) which are often too much stressed.