**** A 2005 article on gyrokinesis and gyrotonics. Details the training program, clearly and concisely presented. “It’s best not to ‘cherry-pick’ Pilates and Gyrotonic exercises and combine them into a single workout. It’s worse to try to integrate one with the other, because then you’ll be misrepresenting both. They should be taught separately,” she says. Read more at idea.fit.com
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**** Osteoporosis has been mentioned here before but I have found a terrific, informative and very practical new article for you, “Modifying Pilates exercise for Osteoporosis.” Find out who is at risk for fracture and which exercises they should avoid. Hear the author interviewed in 2007 on the Pilates podcast with Heidi Miller.
“This is an excellent article which should be read by all fitness instructors, especially Pilates instructors. There are so many flexion based exercises in the Pilates repertoire. It is critical that instructors know and understand how to modify exercises for clients with Osteopenia, Osteoporosis or even those who are at risk of developing these debilitating conditions.” Beth Begelman from pilatesdigest.com
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**** When you are looking through a website and you find old, outdated material what impression does it leave you with? I recently had a potential Pilates client/friend tell me when she looked at a local studios’ website that had workshops still listed from 2007, she saw that as a negative and moved on. I agree, if the business owner can’t see the importance of maintaining the first, and perhaps only impression I get of that business, I am left feeling disappointed. First impressions and all that!
More on this another time, but here is a thought, “The internet opens your business up to millions of customers but it puts you in competition with just as many businesses”. Read here about search engine optimisation.
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