PILATES PLUS BLOG

Many people ask us if we offer heated yoga.  While the short answer no, there is good reason why we don’t offer it.  While practicing yoga in a heated room makes you sweat and allows you to stretch deeper, more injury can come from exercising in a heated room.  The heat from the room tricks your body into working more deeply.  While you feel great when you are exercising in the heat, you go out into the cold and your muscles snap right back to where they were, which is when serious injury can occur.

Pilate Plus is the exclusive provider of ActivCore in Western NY.  Click on the link below to see what it is all about.

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Pilates Plus is proud to be the exclusive provider of ActivCore to the Rochester Area.

We are very excited to be the only studio in Upstate NY offering ActivCore.    If you would like to see what ActivCore is all about, call today to set up your session.

Nowadays, criminals are so fast and lethal, they will do whatever it takes to perform their attacks and get away with ease. In order to stop an attacker of this nature, you need to learn the skills and awareness techniques to defuse the situation or just GET AWAY!

Reality based self defense will teach you how to stop an attacker using a variety of military style combatives and defensive weapon programs. You will also learn the psychology and combative mindset needed in order to make the defense techniques work.

“Reality Based Self Defense” or RBSD is a system based on situations that occur in your everyday life. RBSD also takes into consideration the environment, using weather and low light areas as two large factors. Most of the skills and techniques learned in RBSD revolve around awareness, mindset, reaction, and performing techniques that use simple gross motor skills. This makes the system very easy to learn. Military and law enforcement use these types of training methods because they sometimes have very little time to teach the criteria and rely on the simple but highly effective gross motor skill movements and strikes that RBSD teaches.

RBSD trains using real life scenarios and psychology as its main focal point. Participants act out roles and situations that go on in our lives each and everyday.

If you are interested in learning skills that will work in the streets and the traditional martial arts styles aren’t for you, then Reality Based Self Defense courses are right up your alley.

There are many different versions of Pilates out there today - Classical, Stott and Windsor to name a few.  We are often asked, “What is the difference?” The main difference resides in the quality of the training and subsequently, the instruction. Classical Pilates, the method that Joseph Pilates developed and taught, is the original and, in our opinion, the best method of Pilates. Classical Pilates instructors, like those at Pilates Plus, are required to train for years at perfecting their skills. After going through their training, classical Pilates instructors are required to obtain hundreds of hours of observation and hundreds of hours of practice instruction followed by apprentice teaching. This leads to a quality of instruction that just can not be obtained through a fast-track method of training.

Instructors of other forms of Pilates are typically required to have anywhere from a few hours to a few months of training. While these instructors may be skilled in their own right, they lack the solid foundation to address individual nuances that are so often seen in many clients.

When shopping for a quality instructor it is important to know what method of Pilates is being taught and how much training your instructor has. Don’t be fooled by knock-offs – the classical method is, and always will be, the best!