Pilates Studio Equipment

Imagine an exercise program that you look forward to, that engages you, and that leaves you refreshed and alert with a feeling of physical and mental well-being. The Pilates Method (pronounced puh-LAH-teez) of body conditioning will do all this...and more.

Developed in the 1920s by the legendary physical trainer and founder of The New York Pilates Studio®, Joseph H. Pilates, The Pilates Method is an exercise system focused on improving flexibility and strength for the total body without building bulk. Not surprisingly, some of the first people to use the Pilates Method were dancers such as Martha Graham and George Balanchine.

The Pilates Method is not just exercise, however. It is a series of controlled movements engaging your body and mind, performed on specifically designed exercise apparatus. The Pilates Method of body conditioning promotes physical harmony and balance for people of all ages and physical conditions while providing a refreshing and energizing workout.

Regardless of your current level of fitness - from sedentary office worker to fitness enthusiast - the Pilates Method can be your primary mode of body conditioning and injury prevention.

The Pilates Method of body conditioning can also be integrated into rehabilitative exercise and physical therapy programs designed to speed recovery of soft tissue injuries.

A tremendous variety of exercises can be performed on the Pilates Trapeze Table (or Cadillac). From gentle, spring-assisted sit-ups to advanced acrobatics, the Trapeze Table offers exercises for all ages and abilities.

Rocker and Wobble Boards offer an unstable and sensory-stimulating surface designed to facilitate balance and proprioceptive training and automatic postural reactions. The square Rocker Board and round Wobble Board provide the higher end of Progressive Balance Training for rehab, post-rehab conditioning, and fitness applications.

While the Rocker Board allows for one plane of instability at a time, the Wobble Board provides multiple planes of instability for the most challenging training.

APPLICATIONS

Balance and proprioceptive training for upper and lower extremities.

Closed kinetic chain exercises

Ankle and knee injury prevention and strengthening

Core strengthening and stability

Ankle range of motion and flexibility

Sensory Motor Training