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Pilates For
The New Bride
by Deborah
Harris,
Premier Authentic Pilates
Let's
face it - unless you have an amazing wedding planner, making
arrangements for this most special of days can be both a
daunting and exhausting task. Between looking for the perfect
reception site, perfect dress, perfect everything else, those
who are used to working out soon find that there just isn't
enough time in the day to exercise. New brides often find it
challenging to balance the wedding planning with finding the
time to take care of their bodies. After all, this is THE most
important day of your life and all the eyes are going to be on
you. With progressively escalating
pressure to put all the pieces together in arranging a dream
wedding, a bride can easily lose sight of an important detail:
her personal sense of health and well-being.
With
just a sliver of time to devote to getting into shape, what is
our busy bride to do? Pilates may well be the key that opens
the door to your inner happiness and outer beauty. Pilates is so
"hot" right now that you can't shop for groceries or watch "Sex
in the City" without someone mentioning how wonderful it is.
This technique traces its roots to the 1930's when it was first
recognized by Broadway stars and ballet dancers for its ability
to
slim the thighs, flatten the tummy, increase muscle tone and
improve posture. With over 500 exercises to choose from and
innumerable modifications, a certified Pilates instructor can
design and tailor a program to fit your specific needs and
goals. Pilates will help you get that longer leaner line, the
"two-piece bikini" stomach, the flexibility of Yoga,
the stretch of massage and most importantly a sense of inner
peace.
Because
of its soaring popularity, your Pilates choices have expanded
greatly over the past few years. Your options range in price and
effectiveness from doing a Pilates exercise tape at home, to
taking a group mat class with your bridesmaids, to getting a
private class on the Pilates
Reformer, Cadillac and other pieces of equipment.
Choosing the right Pilates studio isn't always as easy as
picking up the Yellow Pages. The following are some general
questions you can use to assess whether the Pilates instructor
with whom you are considering investing your
valuable time is properly trained and qualified to teach you:
1. What
Bridal Packages does the studio offer?
2. Are
the instructors trained through a comprehensive, nationally
recognized training program?
3. Did
that training program require both a written and a practical
test, lecture, observation, practice and apprenticeship hours?
How many total hours were spent in the training program?
4. How
long have the instructors been teaching Pilates?
5. What
is the studio's philosophy? Are the instructors able to design a
program tailored to your specific needs? Are they able to
accommodate your hectic schedule?
6. Are
the instructors able to teach the full repertoire of Pilates on
all the pieces of apparatus or do they just teach Pilates Mat or
Pilates Ball?
Pilates
should be challenging but fun and spiritually invigorating.
Pilates should give you the body you want and the inner sense of
well-being you've been missing since you first started making
wedding arrangements. If nothing else, Pilates will give you a
chance to leave the world of preparations behind and bring back
the kid-like excitement of seeing just what you and your body
are capable of accomplishing.
Deborah
Harris runs her own Pilates studio, Premier Authentic Pilates in
Warren, NJ and is a new bride herself.
Check
out
www.PremierPilates.net
for
further information on Pilates.
You can
also email Deborah at
Deborah@PremierPilates.net
or call her at (908)-754-5901.
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