Use Pilates to stay injury free after a long break!

So finally we have been able to take up more sociable sports and activities again! When did you last swing a golf club, hit a tennis ball, run the length of a hockey pitch or tackle another player in a match? Or maybe you would have done none of these things, but are instead going from no gardening at all straight into long days bent over a flower bed and vegetable patch?

It’s great to move, and even greater if you have conditioned your body first, so it’s ready for all the things you enjoy. Sports persons around the world regularly use Pilates as their go-to exercise to help muscles, ligaments and tendons work at their best - they have no time for injuries in their backs, groins, necks and shoulders. And nor do most of us!

Andy Murray famously uses Pilates alongside his tennis training, while the Rafa Nadal Academy program points out that tennis is an “asymmetrical and aggressive sport that causes imbalances between muscles and joints”.

Pilates can help just as well on an amateur level, as attested by one of my weekly clients who plays at a regional level: “I am a keen tennis player, which is a very lopsided sport. I find Pilates invaluable in helping to keeping my core strong and my body balanced and supple”. She is very much looking forward to resuming matches again!

Most sports and leisure activities are, like tennis, asymmetrical, and cause imbalances in the body - to help find alignment, balance, concentration, control, core (centering) and stamina, contact Anneli for your Pilates conditioning:

testvalleypilates@gmail.com /07729619662