Fitness for Life
Life isn’t always about fitness, but life can be more enjoyable with fitness. The world is full of wondrous things to discover and enjoy!
From doing puzzles and reading books at home to hiking and exploring the outdoors, there is always a certain amount of fitness to be involved. The amount of fitness can range from being as simple as sitting up straight, bending over properly to pick something up, to something more complex like having the endurance to run a marathon. Let’s be honest, when you’re out and about enjoying life and the activities you love, how many times do you actually think about those things? For me personally, I don’t think about it that much!
Life has a tendency to pull our bodies out of alignment and balance, it’s just the truth about participating in the things we enjoy doing or going through our daily routines. At the Athletic Performance Studio, we focus on movement alignment and use exercise as a tool for you to challenge your ability to maintain that alignment in a safe and controlled environment. You get the benefits of exercise, along with being more aware of how you actually move day in and day out! The goal is not to constantly be thinking about whether or not your hips are aligned with your back, if your shoulders are rounded forward or not, if you’ve put in enough time to build that endurance to run a marathon, and so forth; but it’s important to notice when your body is getting drawn out of alignment or balance.
The gym is great place to always come back to and, in a sense, reset your body’s alignment. As an added perk, when you spend more time actively focusing on how you’re moving in the gym, sometimes you do catch yourself noticing how you’re actually moving when you’re out and about. Maybe every now and then you notice yourself slouching, reaching down to pick something up in a poor manner, or if your shoulders are rounded forward. With your awareness, you can make the quick adjustment and continue on with your business. Small moments of having the awareness to sit up a little taller, pick something up a little bit better, or whatever the case may be will lead to big improvements towards your health and fitness in the long run!
Pilates Class is a wonderful environment to begin to discover how you’re moving and what is actually going on with your body’s alignment. Even for the more experienced Pilates-goer, your foundation for movement can always be improved and developed even more to be rock solid! Our Fitness Class will provide an environment where you can challenge your movement patterns and your ability to focus on how well you’re moving in different modalities such as strength training and conditioning.
In the end, you get to use exercise to move better, gain strength, improve flexibility, and increase your metabolic capacity among the many other benefits related to your overall health and well-being. All of this leads to being able to use your fitness for life and enjoy everything it has to offer!