Pilates 2024
Pilates 2024 is a collection of the 30, 45, or 60 minute Pilates workouts filmed live during the year of 2024. These videos use a variety of props, in both traditional and fusion formats. Pilates is a complete, whole body practice and highlights movement from core postural muscles, often referred to as “The Powerhouse.” Pilates can be practiced by anyone and was designed to be embraced by all. Appropriate for all levels, these workouts will give you increased strength, coordination, range of motion, muscular endurance, and postural control. As a modality of mindful movement, consistent Pilates practice can also permeate in other ways, promoting overall health, happiness and positive body awareness.
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Video 636 | Chair Pilates (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This is a fun take on traditional Pilates, especially if you cannot get down onto the floor for whatever reason. This workout starts with a warm up, including breathwork and seated mobility exercises. Experience some upper and lower body coordinated exercises done with sustained, upright postur...
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Video 635 | Pilates for Low Back (30 mins) with Lauren Eirk
This Pilates workout offers a solution to lower back pain using bodyweight and the Pilates "Magic Circle", or Ring. We will begin warming up on all fours (you can also stand with your hands on a chair), to establish the breathing connection to your spine and rib cage. As we move to supine, we w...
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Video 592 | Hard Core Pilates Ball (30 mins) with Lauren Eirk
This workout fuses the stability ball and classic Pilates. These two work great together, since they are both designed for the trunk and spine! In this workout, challenge your balance and joint stability while adapting many great Pilates exercises on a curved, supportive surface. You will expe...
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Video 581 | Full Body Magic Circle (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This Pilates mat routine incorporates the magic circle, an elastomer, into many traditional Pilates moves to strengthen the core, lower body, and arms. We will begin with a warm up, followed by a standing sequence to work the lower body, chest, and back regions. Floorwork will target the arms,...
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Video 553 | Pilates for Golf (45 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
The Golf swing is a complex sequence of joint movements of the whole body to propel the ball great distances with accuracy. This movement relies on the coordinated sequence of muscle activation to produce a fluid and reproducible movement. To do this, we need adequate core strength and mobility....
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Video 541 | Core Foundations Three: Day 3 (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
These core calisthenics exercises use concentric and eccentric resistance training, moving in and out of positions with bodyweight as resistance. Experience some traditional core exercises such as side planks, crunches, and side leg raises, followed by seated core exercises to bring about latera...
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Video 536 | Core Foundations Two: Day 3 (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
These core calisthenics exercises use concentric and eccentric resistance training, moving in and out of positions with bodyweight as resistance. Experience some traditional core exercises such as crunches, knee to chest, and the criss-cross, followed by seated hip exercises to bring about flexi...
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Video 523 | Pilates Back Therapeutics (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This bodyweight Pilates Mat routine is designed to target mid-lower back pain using some classic exercises with a therapeutic twist. Begin with spinal stabilization exercises for the hip flexors and transverse abdominis and move into a mobility practice for lumbar extension using the sponge bal...
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Live Event | Standing Pilates (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This standing Pilates workout that's all about challenging your balance. There will be no jumping in this workout. You may choose to use a chair from time to time as we try some tough sequences to work your legs, core and hips. This exercise increases your strength and stability while boosting y...
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Live Event | Yoga Block Yogalates (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
In this routine, see how much something as simple as a Yoga block can greatly intensify a Yoga or Pilates routine. We will be performing four blocks of exercises, repeating each block 2-3 times.
Block One: Yoga Sun Salutations with blocks
Block Two: Standing Yoga Core Training
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Live Event | Pilates for Hips (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This Pilates Mat class is focused on the hips. We will use a mini ball, a thigh band, and a chair/support to create these exercises. Starting after the warm up, we will alternate between sidelying hip abduction exercises and prone bird-dog variations. There will be floor exercises and those in...