28/11/2021
Pilates and Injuries🦿🦵
**This post was inspired by several different people with different kind of injuries, whom I came across with in the past week and were interested in Pilates classes. Unfortunately, they believe that they need to heal from their injuries first before they can start training.
As long as this isn't the acute stage of the injury, that is not true.
In any case, please consult your personal physician, preferably an experienced and trustable physiotherapist/osteopath before you start. **
"Movement heals" said Joseph Pilates.
And he was right. This is not an empty statement.
This was Joseph Pilates's gift and the legacy he gave to the world, creating an exercise method to prove his life research, all based on his own rich knowledge and experience.
As a young kid, Joseph Pilates was bullied due to the fact that he was short and sick, suffering from several diseases, like asthma, rheumatic fever and bone deformities (image 3).
That triggered him to develop physical and emotional strength. 💪🏼🧘🏽♀️
Growing up in a family of athletes (his father was a professional award winning athlete, and his brothers engaged in different types of sports) and having a naturopathic mother, he was determined to heal himself, get stronger and leave his sickness and traumatic childhood behind him.
He spent hours outside, in the sun, the woods and the open air, exercising, breathing deeply, studying anatomy from a medical book he got from a doctor (friend of the family).
He studied marshal arts, western and eastern movements and philosophies
Putting all his knowledge from the anatomy's book into practice, Pilates researched his own body movement. Pilates took his experience from boxing, athletic and marshall arts, with his inspiration from yoga and the hours of researching animals's, combined it with his own experience with deep breathing techniques, and started to develope his own original exercise method.
🐒🦢🐬🦭🦀🪱🐘🐿️🐈⬛ 🏋️🤸🤼⛷️🏊🧘🏽♀️🤺
His first step as a master teacher was during the 1st world war, when Pilates was a political prisoner.
He was training other prisoners in boxing and self defence exercise.
This is also where Pilates developed his brilliant Contrology system.
Using springs from prison mattress, and connecting them to the bed's frames in deferent angles to create support as well as resistance, he was able to train injured and even crippled prisoners.
And aurika! The first reformers and trapeze table (Cadillac) were born 🎉 (image 4)
When they were released, his trained prisoners were in a better shape then before they were in prison.
Later on, Pilates worked with injured dancers and other athletes, and continued to develop more apparatuses and helpful accessories, as well as exercises, inspired by his trainees, and gained a well known name as a rehabilitator as well as a genius master trainer, especially in the dance community.
So as you can see, classic Pilates system ( Contrology) was created as a rehabilitation system *as well as* a very challenging exercise method, all in the same package.
It is designed to give you a great workout, body and mind, what ever shape you are in at the moment.
The deferent exercises, according to your own personal level and the deferent apparatuses, according to your personal body shape and needs, makes it the best exercise method, and i am perfectly objective 😛
