PILATES
"After 10 lessons you feel better, after 20 you look better - and after 30 lessons you have a new body"
Joseph Hubertus Pilates
Physiotherapy and Pilates
Our classes are small.
Our exercises are individually prescribed.
Our clients are guided continually.
PILATES IN LILYDALE
Are you looking to high quality Pilates classes where there is full focus on you? Our Physiotherapists here in Lilydale offer 3:1 pilates classes along side 1:1 consultations.
Our pilates classes are small
Exercises are individually prescribed by your physiotherapist or Osteopath
You will be guided continually throughout the whole class
Give us a call today on 03 9737 6665 to hear more about what pilates can do for your body. We welcome everyone at our clinic including those with disability, injuries, pregnancy and those pre or post surgery. You can read more about prenatal & postnatal pilates, small group pilates, reformer pilates, mat pilates and clinical pilates below.
Prenatal Pilates & Postnatal Pilates
Our physiotherapists know the importance keeping fit during pregnancy. We also understand how keen many new mums are to get active after childbirth. Our clinical experience, knowledge of anatomy & specialised equipment means we can personalise your care so that you achieve all of your health goals.
Small group Pilates
Personalised strengthening, pilates & rehab by your physiotherapist or Osteopath. Our small group consultation (3 clients with 1 physio) mean you get all the attention you need in an affordable service that enables you to achieve your longer-term health goals such as getting stronger, mobile or fit after injury.
Reformer Pilates
Reformer Pilates gives you more options. Our physiotherapists and Osteopaths have years of experience in using the Reformer machine to help clients develop the strength, mobility, control & balance required to achieve their goals. Our premium quality Kauffer reformer looks as good as it feels and is a joy to use.
Mat Pilates
Mat Pilates is the original method developed by Joseph Pilates. Our physiotherapists can teach you exercises to improve strength, mobility & control while correcting your technique to get the most out of each move. You can also practice at home so that you are ready to progress next class!
Clinical Pilates
What's the difference between clinical and non-clinical pilates? Clinical pilates is provided by physiotherapists and Osteopaths who have specialised training in diagnosing, rehabilitating and preventing both pain and injury. This enables us to make 'clinical' decisions that help you get the most out of your body.
THE HISTORY OF PILATES
Joseph Pilates (1883-1967) was born in Mönchengladbach. His mother was a biopath and his father a doctor. As a child, he suffered from asthma among other things, but with a healthy lifestyle and lots of training he became a strong athlete and managed to defy his illnesses and weaknesses.
He developed his own training methods based on a variety of sports and combined these with studies of human and animal physiology, movement and anatomy.
As a young man, Joseph Pilates traveled with a circus troupe where he acted as a strong man and it was with this troupe that he was interned in a military camp in England during World War I. Inside the camp, Joseph quickly became to be in charge of physical training and retraining of wounded soldiers. In this way, Pilates developed a large part of his well-known training equipment, including the reformer (Universal Reformer) the other well-known training tools.
Joseph Pilates trained from 1919-1925 in the Hamburg military police and in 1925 traveled to New York where he opened his first American training studio with his own form of training. He quickly became popular with the elite dancers and continued throughout his life to develop his unique training methods, just as he never stopped developing his special training equipment.
Pilates managed to train and educate two students, Kathy Grant and Lolita San Miguel in his method. In addition, many of his students, as well as his wife Clara Pilates, and his protégé Romana Krysanowska have passed on and taught the method that has created, and still creates, such unique results.
More and more people are opening their eyes to the very special properties that the training method, now called Pilates, contains and we love it here at Exercise Thought Lilydale
“If your spine is stiff at 30, you are old. If it is flexible at 60, you are young.
Joseph Hubertus Pilates