Pilates As a Recreation Therapy in Dubai
Pilates has taken the fitness world by storm. Health and fitness gurus around the world are finding all sorts of ways to use Pilates. Our own Pilates teachers in Dubai have been using it as a recreation therapy and you won’t believe the results.
If you had to summarize it, It’s sort a mixture of philosophy and religion, fitness and health, relaxation and energy. You feel it the moment you walk into one of our many one on one and group pilates classes, says Sue Hermon , the woman behind the Pilates for life movement.
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Sue is one of the top certified Pilates instructor in Dubai, she also has a degree in recreational therapy and if that was not enough, she has a master’s degree in fitness education from one of the top universities in the UK. At the age of 22, she was a certified aerobics instructor in London UK and what she saw during her aerobic classes made her think for alternatives beside just jumping around with group of semi strangers. Her answer was more holistic approach to health compared to just following the crowd.
Her passion for sports and her knowledge of science blended together, away from aerobics made sense. She decided to put her master’s degree in fitness education to use. From her experience as an aerobic instructor, she knew people get this big rush of losing weight but they don’t stick with it. One of the reasons for not sticking to exercises over an extended period of time is “because it is too hard”. She decided to come up with teaching less harsh, but very effective methods of fitness and health improvement based on “less is more” concept.
Aerobics was a big hit about 25 years ago and over time it had its highs and lows but more and more people are now realizing the toll it takes on your joints, especially when it is not done right. Bundle this up with aging of the Baby Boomers, aerobics may have contributed to the need for a joint-friendly, healthy form of exercise.
Enter The next frontier of Pilates. It is based on healthy mind equally complimented by healthy body, through whole body training instead of targeting specific muscle groups. The best way to look at it is this, she created a Pilates plan, which gives you a body of a dancer rather than a body-builder.
Before she teaches you a single class, she works on the mind and teaches you the philosophy of Pilates. It is all about grace, strength, balance and coordination to move like a butterfly. Beginning students must understand this and rest is by doing things slowly but properly again and again until you can master the basics.
Session with Sue means beginning with your current basic assessment first, a discussion of your goals in why you want to be fit and healthy and look at your individual health factors that might impact your ability to exercise properly. Just one hour with her and she can help determine some of your strengths and abilities. She talks about your past, builds it into your present and gets you ready for the future. She has detailed discussions with you about your former injuries, illness and lifestyle to determine where she needs to begin a therapy routine and what should be done at what time.
“Most of the time i can tell mind and healthy body by spending little time with someone but i still make sure to ask you if you had any medical issues – It’s hard to tell you just had your medial meniscus repaired,” she said. And if you did have a medical condition, Pilates is a great post rehabilitation workout. She uses Pilates for most of her client who are recovering from injuries.
She has developed extensive range of Pilates exercise, from pre-Pilates workouts for those suffering from many different diseases like fibromyalgia, arthritis and movement limiting conditions to level 5 Pilates, yes there are different levels in Pilates, to more advanced Pilates system designed to provide performance enhancement for serious athletes in London and now in Dubai.
She stressed the importance of pre-Pilates program “fundamentals of movement”, is designed to help people start towards the right direction. It is the foundation of overcoming injury, illness and disease through proper breathing and posture. The right way to breath is one of the most important aspect of Pilates “I am Known by family and friends as ‘posture police’ they all walk tall when i am around” Says Sue.
Sue is very serious about the need for good posture not because it helps with the Pilates but proper posture makes your back strong, helps you breath better and makes you look and feel better. “There is a posture epidemic going around” Says Sue, loads of problems we see is because we are too slouchy almost like “hunchback of Notre Dame”, a lot of people spend too much time bent over a computer keyboard. It’s this neglective segment of the population in Dubai and around the world that keeps the fitness industry in business,” she said.
Once you have gone through the initial assessment, she creates a highly personalized plan just for you. This plan not only is used as a road map but also she shows you how to incorporate it into your lifestyle. “The whole idea is learning to balance your lifestyle. You don’t need a gym or a house full of expensive equipment, which are hardly used to be healthier,” she said. Often, the plan she creates can help clients her find tools needed right in your home and simple yet highly effective exercises to modify your lives.
Beside teaching her own brand of Pilates, Sue has been a personal trainer for 6 years, helping men and women, though in Dubai she mostly helps women. She helps you create a balanced life and creates unique plans for stay-at-homes moms. For example one of the plan for stay at home moms with active toddlers is to use the time spent as a session, which involves the right way to learn to twist, turn and pick up after their children in a manner that won’t result in injury, using legs rather than the lower back to carry things.
she has helped many men and women heal from injuries. From Sciatica to osteopenia or simply to relax, she has a routine for everything. The biggest chunk of her clients are those who are trying to lose weight and contacted her based on word of mouth from others. As you may Know, Word of mouth spreads fast in Dubai and if you are on top of your game, everyone wants to work with you. That’s the case with Sue, she is in high demand and for all the good reasons.
Most people do not know this but Pilates does not promote weight loss through cardiovascular exercise as some programs like aerobics. What most people also don’t know that Pilates was developed 80 years ago by its founder Joseph Pilates. Joseph believed the best way to lose weight was to increase muscle mass. Sue totally agrees with it, muscles burn more calories than fat. Lean muscle requires more energy to fuel your body than fat does. For example if two woman with exact same weight; one has more muscles and the other more fat, the one with more muscles will burn more calories while the one with more fat will burn less.
Pilates by its nature is easier on your joints because it works to decompress the joints, making it one of the best way for chiropractic therapy, Sue said. She has been using this thought process to help people recover from injuries even faster than with chiropractic care alone.
She is also one of the best post rehab specialist in Dubai, she works closely with trainer.ae physical therapist’s on how to assist people making the transition from physical therapy back to a fitness program. It is no surprised that Pilates was designed from day one to make your entire body “functionally fit” by helping to relieve stress and depression. It also helps people with movement limitations overcome their shortcomings to regain some strength and increase their balance and freedom.
Sue wants you to not only learn with her but she helps you learn on your own also. She has loads of clients who injured themselves doing Pilates at home on their own or by following some so called expert with a CD without proper instructions. Her job is to help you gain better understanding of Pilates, improve your techniques and venture beyond the 30-minute workout to a more whole body approach.
In Joseph Pilates own words, he said the objective was to invigorate the body and the mind. “My method develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind and elevates the spirit.”
Those ideas are what Sue uses to help you bring a little “balance” to your lives.
Her latest offering is Yogalates class in Dubai, which further integrates the principals of yoga and Pilates combined for a more relaxing and invigorating fitness experience, something you will love.
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