Girlfriends' Guide to Getting Fit: The basics

September 17, 2003

The basics

BARBARA, arts, educational & cultural consultant: A body and mind exercise, Pilates has served dancers, actors and others from around the world. It’s a fact that comes as no surprise to Jeanette Coleman, Pilates instructor at the Abington Club in Jenkintown.

"Pilates helps to improve flexibility and teaches you how to hold your body in proper body alignment," Coleman said. "It gives you the appearance of decreased fat as it improves muscle tone and reshapes the body."

The exercise method is built around the Six Basic Principles of Pilates:

Level of Concentration - focus your concentration on affective movement
Control - use a slow steady motion to achieve long lean lines
Center - teaches proper breathing, improves posture and body alignment (utilizing the lower abdominals, just below the naval)
Flowing Movement - use a slow, steady, controlled motion as flow from one movement to another
Precision - follow all directions for each exercise to achieve the best execution or the proper form
Breathing - inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth; diaphragm breathing is both mental and physical

If you would like to try a class, check out Jeanette Coleman on Tuesday nights at the Abington Club. Other locations are Philly Total Fitness, Bally's, LA Fitness and area Y's. With the claims of improved strength, circulation, posture, longer, leaner muscles and clearness of mind how, can it hurt you? Posted September 17, 2003 02:57 AM

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