Why do so many professional athletes turn to Pilates? Because Pilates develops balance, length and strength in the body’s muscle groups. Without this balance, length, and strength, your body is unable to develop coordinated and energy efficient movements.
Athletes can target problematic movement patterns and use Pilates to improve both movement efficiency and overall strength, while, at the same time, increasing muscle elasticity and helping to prevent injury. In this manner, golfers can add yardage and precision to their drive; runners and bikers can increase the distance of their run or ride without expending more energy; and skiers can avoid knee and back injury while hitting the bumps.
The instructors at Functional Strength will help you to identify the muscles and also the movement generating the power for your specific sport. Then, after watching how the rest of your body responds during this movement, the instructors can help you to trouble shoot where your body is wasting energy with unnecessary movements and muscle engagements.
Using Pilates, we will teach your body a new way to engage certain muscle groups, while allowing other muscles groups to relax. This training will focus on the engagement of specific muscles that will accomplish your sport specific goal.