Let’s Celebrate and Love Seeing and Feeling Results through Pilates - By

Adios, so long, farewell and goodbye January. Welcome to longer days, brighter skies and with the January blues long gone, let’s get celebrating fabulous February and of course embracing feeling the love! Whether that’s with someone significant, family or friends, or love for a furry friend that has stuck by your side through the minus degrees, or most importantly yourself, let’s especially embrace the small things and little wins that we have achieved so far this year.

I am still seeing New Year’s resolutions going strong at the Pilates and Yoga studio in Writtle, which is wonderful, and the enquiries coming to us to discuss getting started are still trickling in. There has been a noticeable trend this year of ‘I’ve not done anything since before lockdown - where do I start?’.

If you’ve been following my articles, you will have noticed that I always stress it’s never too late with pilates, and in fact it is highly recommended and indisputed the safest way to get back on your feet, but I wanted to address another common related question: ‘When will I see or feel results?’.

Though there isn’t a one size fits all answer, safe, proven effective, lasting improvements can be almost instant with pilates - so how? When you embark on a regular fitness and exercise routine whether it’s a restorative yoga, a strength and toning pilates, your body will produce endorphins, messengers produced by the brain giving you a positive energised feeling almost instantly. The routines that you work through in an hour-long class rarely miss out any of your major joints or muscles, so nothing will feel like it hasn’t ‘worked’. In theory every session you embark on will give you results, but long-term feeling noticeably stronger, feeling energised day to day, can be felt in as little as a few weeks depending on your commitment.

Whether pilates is your only form of exercise or is it something you use to compliment other fitness choices, creating noticable changes that improve how your muscles and joints work, our biomechanics, can also happen within weeks, because within a pilates class we address some of the most common ways our biomechanics fail, such as stooped rounded shoulders, weakened core muscles that have lead to tight, lower back muscles, and even stressed shallow breathing that inhibit our ability to relax properly. The way our bodies

Erica