Yes, it's true. It is for the Certificated Teacher, which must know all the Pilates Method, choose the most suitable exercise for postural habit of that specific customer, choosing the most appropriate tool with the most suitable variant.Only in this way you can really bring to the solution of the problem.

The most important are the Universal Reformer, the Cadillac and the Barrel.All other tools are part of the Pilates method, but have some peculiarities which provide for the use in special cases and for specific needs.Other combined equipment can be chosen with space-saving criteria.

Thanks to new technologies, the best companies are now able to produce more sophisticated tools, safe, comfortable and durable, as well as more attention to detail and design.Practicing Pilates method on these latest equipment does not mean, however, modify the technique in its essence, but only practice it enjoying advantages impossible at the time of Joseph Pilates.

Joseph Pilates created his equipment for his method over seventy years ago.These tools were very innovative for those times, but obviously rudimentary in their structure.The equipment produced now need to maintain the same characteristics, to be suitable for professional use, while maintaining the original principles.However, Pilatech uses new technologies and new materials to offer the very best...

The Pilates "method" involves the practice of free body work (MatWork) and also work with special tools.Pilates himself has invented these tools and are an integral part of the method he invented.The "mat work", is just one component of the method.Only with the use of specific equipment, however, you can get the best of well-being that the Pilates method can offer.

The muscles involved in the postural system are muscles "tonic" located primarily in deeper location than the "phasic" muscles.The "tonic" muscles have a structure making them suitable to a long contraction, protracted, while the "phasic" have the task of carrying out the rapid movements, typical in daily activities.The phasic muscles are what we "see" and that is so important to our aesthetic...

It depends on our personal history: Genetic factors Acquired factors: behavioral habits Working habits, or daily activities Sports practiced Traumas and diseases Mental attitude

Our body is a System in Dynamic Equilibrium with the fulcrum in the feet, our base of support.It is defined as an Inverse Pendulum.Postural stability depends on a complex system of control of the equilibrium (which substantially coincides with the system of control of the posture) that is realized through the continuous control of the tone of the postural muscles.Assignment of the postural tonic...

"Posture" means the body position in space and its relationship among its body segments.The correct posture is nothing other than the most suitable position of the body in space to implement the antigravity functions with the least energy expenditure both in dynamic and in static; it will contribute to various factors (neurophysiological, biomechanical, emotional, psychological and...

There is no age limit in the practice of the Pilates method.Some of the first pupils of Joseph Pilates who, despite having now between 70 and 80 years, are still in great shape and still in its activities due to the constant practice of the Pilates method.The aging processes are opposed by constant exercise that, in fact, improves joint flexibility and muscle tone in a harmonious and posturally...