“I have been attending Sara Dore's Pilates Classes for 3 years and have finally found a Fitness Work-out that delivers 100% on everything it promises - fitness, flexibility, strength, muscular definition and lengthening (WITHOUT BULK) and an overall improvement in body shape.
“Under the instruction of Sara and her Team at "Empower Pilates" there is no room for boredom or reaching a plateau in your exercising, throughout the class everyone is treated as an individual and your exercises are constantly varied covering all muscle groups.
“Depending on your capability and motivation the resistance you are working under is gradually increased leading to an ongoing increase in you muscular strength and fitness. “It is inevitable that you will benefit from better posture and an overall feeling of wellbeing with this exercise routine under the expert tutoring of Sara and her staff.” - Elaine Forrest, 55
“I have been doing Pilates with Sara Dore twice a week for the past two years. This is the longest I have stuck with an exercise routine, but Sara keeps it interesting for me by constantly varying the exercises and continuing to challenge me.
Empower Pilates is gentle yet effective, I definitely believe my body is the most toned it has ever been. I have greatly appreciated their caring and professional approach.” Miriam Gibson, 34
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Empower Pilates
Empower Pilates is based on Sara Dore’s Clinical Pilates training and her physiotherapy and sports medicine background. Empower Pilates is a unique form of exercise that is safe, evidence based and can cater for all ages and fitness levels. Empower Pilates is able to provide a challenge to the fittest individuals as well as to those who are just beginning a fitness programme.
Core stabilisation and muscle efficiency are the key factors identified by researchers and addressed by Clinical Pilates (for further information about Clinical Pilates click here) and also the Empower Pilates programmes that Sara has developed. It incorporates floor work done on a mat and/or exercises on spring loaded equipment rather than free weights. The focus is on strengthening the body’s core muscles around the abdomen and the lower back, therefore enabling the body to move more freely, creating long, lean, strong muscles and improved joint flexibility.
Pilates is based on Joseph Pilates original work. As a child he suffered from asthma, rickets and rheumatic fever. This led him to draw on many of the training principles of the day and devise an exercise programme leading him into the world of gymnastics, boxing and circus performing. During the First World War he was interned to work in hospitals. He devised programmes for his fellow inmates and patients using springs attached to beds in order to maintain their health and fitness.
After the war he moved to New York and set up a studio in the 1920s whose main clients were dancers and performers. Since that time ballet dancers have continued to use Pilates but in recent years it has been rediscovered and modernized for use by athletes, the medical profession and the general public.
Benefits of Empower Pilates
Regardless of your physical fitness, Empower Pilates will help you develop a stronger back, flatten your abdominal muscles, and improve your strength, flexibility, coordination and breathing.
Empower Pilates also has a number of other benefits:
- Provides overall body toning;
- Enhances your breathing control;
- Gives greater resistance to injury;
- Corrects muscle imbalance and poor posture from work related activities;
- Provides safe management after injuries;
- Help recover body shape and tone after pregnancy.
Research also tells us that the best management of lower back pain is controlled exercise. With Empower Pilates we are able to adapt programmes for people with injuries and cater for all ages and fitness levels.
Specific rehabilitation programmes are also provided at Beach Physio & Clinical Pilates using the specialised Clinical Pilates equipment that is available at the Studio.
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