FITNESS
Get to the core of a strong toned body
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A 5-EXERCISE PILATES AND BARRE ATTACK WORKOUT ANYONE CAN DO: LOW IMPACT, ENDURANCE-BASED EXERCISES TO SUIT ALL AGES AND FITNESS LEVELS THAT YOU CAN TAKE AT YOUR OWN PACE – AT YOUR PLACE!
By RENEE SCOTT Want to sculpt and align your body? Work your core with Pilates Mat and Barre Attack an ideal combination of standing stability, body weight resistance training and flowing, core-strengthening exercises. Pilates Mat, created by Joseph Pilates in New York in the late 1920s, uses just your own body weight and a sequence of flowing exercises on a mat, with control, precision, alignment, concentration and the connection of your "powerhouse", which we now often refer to as our core. This series of exercises done on a regular basis will help tone, lengthen and align the body. helping with posture, injury prevention and mental and physical wellbeing. 20 | THRIVE #3
Barre Attack is the number one Australian barre workout, created by me. Also known as the “sweaty barre workout”, it combines standing Pilates, ballet-based moves and fitness to create a low impact, high intensity full bodied workout. Using a ballet barre or a chair, your own body weight and small equipment, it’s a flowing, fun combination of endurance and strength-based exercises, while aligning and engaging the core. The bonus of Pilates and Barre is that anybody can do it. They're appropriate for all ages and fitness levels; low impact, and endurance-based exercises that you can take at your own pace. Before you know it, you will have a bounce in your step, you will stand taller, hold great posture, feel great and everybody will start to notice the positive changes!
WHAT IS YOUR CORE? The key core muscle groups are around the trunk of the body. Think of a cylinder around your torso the main supporting muscles such as: • The pelvic floor, at the base of the pelvis • Transverse abdominus, wrapping around the centre of the body like a wide belt • Internal and external obliques, extending diagonally from ribs to pelvis • Rectus abdominus, known well as the six pack • The mulitifidus and erector spinae, along the spine from the base of the pelvis to the head They work together to help our balance, posture, sports or daily activities. If you complete regular core-based activities with correct alignment you will feel more energised, lighter and more "in tune" with your body.
