H.O. Fitness - News and Advice

Fitness Pilates, Yoga & Mindfulness Workshop A workshop of movement - Fitness Pilates, Yoga and Mindfulness at St Nicholas' Park, Warwick with Jon Earls and Hazel Oliver           Fitness Pilates is a sequence of flowing movements with a functional element about it as it differs from the more traditional mat-based pilates, with its global approach to how the body moves and functions, incorporating twisting, bending, reaching, being it in standing, side lying, all fours, supine, prone positions.  All...

Move with purpose and move differently View this email in your browser Move with purpose and move differently A function of the abdominal muscles is to coordinate motion between the pelvis and thorax.  Decelerating motion in one direction and the accelerating motion in another direction, the abdominal muscles stretch, twist, bend and contract.   Most sports and activities we do are in an upright position.  We are on our feet while our arms are reaching, lifting, grabbing, throwing, catching and swinging which all stretch...

I Got your back View this email in your browser I Got your back!. Functional Fitness Pilates: - Functional training is designed on human movementit has a whole body approach, as the body is one kinetic chain.  During FFP we are taking a selection of the original mat work exercises, evolving and progressing them, where possible, into seated, kneeling, standing, side lying adding balance and moving progressions and variations. As we never or rarely stand still. but we might sit...

Move your body more.. View this email in your browser Move your body more! This article caught my eye, it was posted in the physio group that I'm in. interesting I thought. and as it happens this week, we have been using bands in my fitness pilates classes. Bands are a brilliant way of increase Range of Movement Flexibility Strength Working with tension and control Stability Challenging balance work with movement, strength and stability. A fantastic resource of increasing resistance, which is brilliant for bone density and bone health....

Fitness pilates classes are going from strength to strength at Meon Vale Leisure Ctr, Monday evening at 7.30pm.. and The Malthouse, Alveston, S-U-A....Thursday evening 7.30pm... Do you want to get stronger, gain flexiabilty,have a better posture, breath better and in turn improve your sleep and make you more relaxed, giving better hormonal balance too.  Be able to balance better to do simple but also challenging things like put your socks or trousers It's also important to workout your mind as well as your body... If you're wanting any...

Run Rabbit Run View this email in your browser Run, Rabbit Run..!!!  for the runners that I see out there, I just want to say,  well done to all the runners I saw at the Colour Blast event last Sunday, lovely to see lots of families running which is brilliant and my daughter Sian ran with her friends,  Ella and Charlie who came 2nd...., Well done to the Triathletes at Stratford Tri event on Sunday too. Good luck to those runners doing Blenhiem...

https://www.canva.com/design/DAA20HKZ7IM/3pEJPwP06GW-DR6kHyElvA/view WHAT IS Functional FITNESS PILATES?           Functional Fitness Pilates is a more modern approach to the traditional mat based pilates sessions. It still applies the same principles but also involves a more up to date scientific approach to functional movement that we use in everyday life. Lifting, turning, bending, reaching, twisting, kneeling, balancing to name but a few and more in keeping with our lifestyles. My Fitness Pilates sessions consist of a warm up, standing exercises and floor exercises, all of which...

Take a look at Fitness Pilates,  the filming could be better, but if we wait for things to be perfect before we do anything we would do nothing....   Taster for you... try it and join me on the 1st September at Meon Vale Village Hall   http://youtu.be/vdDnmJi48yg?list=UUh_lf9A-K8kYvAUeHTraq1Q   Be Brilliant Hazel x...