Group Pilates Class in Perth

Pilates is a great way to strengthen your core, tone your muscles and reduce your pain. Our group Pilates classes are perfect for people of all fitness levels who want to get a workout in a fun and supportive environment.

Pilates Strengthens Your Core And Improves Your Fitness

It can be hard to stay motivated to work out at the gym, especially when you don’t see results right away.

Pilates is a great way to supplement your gym routine or provide an alternative workout. It is a low-impact workout that can help alleviate pain and increase your flexibility.

Archer St Physiotherapy Centre offers group Pilates classes designed to help you achieve your fitness goals while also preventing and treating injuries. Our classes are fun and challenging, and our experienced instructors will help you get the most out of each session. Whether you’re looking to improve your flexibility, strength, or balance, our Pilates classes can help you reach your goals.

Benefits

Benefits of Pilates

With Pilates, you fine-tune neuromuscular patterns and balance muscles and create optimal strength. The optimal strength is achieved by balancing strength, mobility, and flexibility. You can move and breathe more freely and powerfully during your daily activities and experience less pain.

Enhances Body Awareness

Enhancing proprioception improves the body’s response to stimuli, which can help prevent injuries and falls.

Decreases Stress

Pilates can reduce anxiety levels. This can help you get out of fight-or-flight mode, lower cortisol, and reduce stress over time.

Improves Flexibility and Mobility

Incorporating a range of different exercises allows us to improve flexibility and mobility across the whole body.

Improves Balance

Balance is essential for everyday activities that involve coordination, such as walking and daily living activities. Pilates includes exercises which improve balance and coordination.

Why Choose Archer St Physiotherapy Centre for Group Pilates Class

Our physiotherapists are highly experienced and qualified, meaning they can provide you with a Pilates class that would help you achieve your rehabilitation goals.

To ensure that all participants of Group Pilates sessions receive the full benefit of the class, everyone who joins the class is entitled to real-time ultrasound scanning. This will help assess their core muscles and teach participants how to activate them properly.

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQ's about Group Pilates Class

Is Pilates good for weight loss?

Weight loss and a slimmer appearance can be achieved through Pilates in a number of ways:

Exercise burns calories:
Calories are burned based on your body type and how much you exert yourself. As Pilates develops lean muscle mass, it is among the best ways to burn calories.
Pilates promotes deep, efficient breathing:
Breathing burns calories efficiently and regenerates tissues.

Can I do Pilates while pregnant?

Pilates is a low-impact workout that increases flexibility, strength, and muscle tone and is safe for pregnant women to practice. Pilates focuses on your core, so it can improve posture, relieve backaches, and ultimately assist with labour and delivery. It also boosts your mood and energy levels. If you’re pregnant, tell the instructor so she can help you modify or avoid any risky moves.

To keep your Pilates sessions safe during the different trimesters, follow these tips:

First Trimester

Speak Up:
When clients are this far along in their pregnancy, they tend to be timid about telling their Pilates teacher. The good news is that there’s nothing specific that you can’t do just yet, but your teacher can educate you and encourage you to listen to your body.
Be Present:
Be aware of how you’re feeling, and become more in tune with your body. If you feel nauseous or tired, you might want to avoid certain exercises.
Go Back to Basics:
Especially with regards to breathing and stabilisation, this is the right time to brush up on your Pilates basics.

Second Trimester

Limit Supine Work:
During the second trimester, lying on your back compresses the inferior vena cava and the aorta, limiting blood flow to the baby, and making you dizzy.
Take precautions:
You can also do other exercises to work those same muscles if you’re worried something might hurt the baby.
Be Smart About Flexion:
Diastasis recti occurs when your abdominals split due to too much pressure from the uterus or if your stomach muscles are too strong (think: crunching motion).
Avoid Overemphasising the Pelvic Floor:
Allow it to relax a bit during pregnancy. Breathe deeply and fully release the pelvic floor muscles between repetitions to bring awareness to the muscles

Third Trimester

Give Extra Attention To The Chest And Back:
There’s a tendency for your shoulders to round forward and for back pain to creep in while your breasts and belly grow. Perform more chest and back openers.
Don’t Ignore Belly Button Pain:
Pilates cannot correct a hernia. It may be time to see your doctor.
Address Joint Pain:
Pilates helps promote circulation and strengthens the muscles that support joints, thus alleviating joint pain. However, you won’t feel complete relief until your baby is born if you suffer from pubic symphysis due to pregnancy.

What Areas of The Body Does Pilates Target?

The Pilates workout focuses primarily on your core, including your abdominal and spinal areas. People who suffer from lower back pain can greatly benefit from Pilates for this reason. Your legs, particularly your upper thighs and your buttocks, are other areas of your body that are strengthened and toned by Pilates.

People with arthritis have also found Pilates to be beneficial because it keeps their joints flexible. This may help prevent arthritis and knee injuries because Pilates strengthens the thigh muscles.

Can Pilates be harmful?

During Pilates, as with many other forms of a full-body exercise, it is possible to hurt yourself. Common complaints include lower back pain and neck pain. Incorrect form or excessive exercising are likely to cause these injuries. Muscle/ligament strains and spinal disc damage are among the most common Pilates injuries.

How is Pilates different from yoga?

Both pilates and yoga have many benefits including connection to the body and stress relief, as well as their development of flexibility, strength, control, and endurance. Although both disciplines have countless interpretations, what links them both is breathwork. In spite of the fact that both yoga and Pilates can be performed on a mat, they are actually very different exercises.

Yoga is an ancient Indian practice dating back 5,000 years. It combines posture, breathing, and meditation to promote both mental and physical well-being. The purpose of yoga is to connect the body and mind by holding and advancing physical poses while paying attention to the breath.

Joseph Pilates created Pilates in the 1920s as a way to help injured veterans during the First World War. The aim of the exercise is to develop muscles uniformly and create postural awareness through activation and stabilisation. Slow, precise exercises are performed along with breath control. Pilates emphasises core stability and strength.