Adelaide Pilates Studio

Adelaide Pilates Studio by Inside Out Health offers the most comprehensive range of pilates classes in Adelaide.

Classes are available in traditional pilates, matwork, apparatus, reformer, chi-ball, small group and personal training, rehabilitation, and the unique Gravity training system, exclusive to Inside Out and one of the studios most popular and exciting training formats according to director Trish McNicholl.

Pilates is unique in its ability to systematically exercise all of the major muscle groups in the body, both weak and strong. It is a combination of the focus and gentleness of yoga with the addition of strength training found most commonly performed in gyms or personal training.

The many benefits of pilates are:

• Flatten, tone and strengthen the abdominals
• Longer and leaner muscles
• Improved posture
• Helps to prevent injury
• Increased blood flow and circulation helping to relieve tension
• Enhanced awareness of the body
• Balance of strength and flexibility
• Enhanced athletic ability
• Increase self-esteem

Classes available:

• Pilates Matwork Classes for beginner to advanced – provide an all over body workout using your own body weight as resistance
• Pilates Apparatus Classes – using rollers, therabands and fitballs to help improve your core strength and flexibility
• Pilates Reformer Classes – advanced workout for the core, arms and legs using the Allegro Reformer machines which utilise spring loaded resistance with cables and straps
• Private Pilates and Equipment based sessions – using the reformer, trapeze, cadillac and circles
• Gravity Training System – an amazing pilates format offering up to 250 exercises working every major muscle group with a minimal amount effort required (see video below)

Gravity Pilates

For more information and how you can get started with pilates in Adelaide, contact Trish at Inside Out Health on the details below. She has 2 studio locations in Adelaide, Magill and the Adelaide CBD. Mention this website or the code ‘adelaidept‘ for a special offer.

Inside Out Health Studio

Adelaide Pilates Studio CBD

Level 1
157 Frome St
Adelaide 5000
0406 731 447

Adelaide Pilates Studio Magill

433 Magill Rd
Magill 5072
0406 731 447

Personal Training and Strength Training for Seniors

Personal training is a great way for seniors and older adults to safely improve their general health and fitness and enhance their quality of life as they enter their “golden years.”

For many older adults strength training can increase physical and functional strength, improve balance and general mobility, increase bone mineral density, reduce body fat, enable greater levels of participation and activity in sports such as golf, bowls, hiking and many other fitness activities, and even increase self -esteem.

Benefits of Weight Training for Seniors

An important benefit of strength training for seniors is based on growing evidence that exercise may help to slow or decrease the rate of bone and muscle loss through the natural process of aging. A modest increase in lean muscle tissue and strength at all ages can vastly help to improve quality of life and avoid the widely accepted notion that the older we get, the more frail we become.

Studies carried out in the mid 1980′s and into early 1990 began to indicate that even though the number of muscle fibres and muscle strength that naturally decreases with age can maintained and even improved in the older population.

Perhaps the most important aspect of strength training for older adults though is to offset the ageing effects of sarcopenia, from the Greek words which means “vanishing flesh.” It should not be assumed that this natural process of losing muscle tissue through aging equals loss of independence and movement, rather it is a consequence of “disuse.”

Functional Training for Seniors

There are many types of exercises that can be performed by older adults. However, for those that have limited endurance and balance, strength training can be a great way to improve these things and allow participation in a larger variety of sports and general movement.

Some great exercises which can be used at any age are squats, press ups, pull ups, static and rotational core movements, resistance band work, with most of these easily adaptable for use with just a person’s body weight or additional resistance, and of course their allowed range of movement.

Strength Training for Older Adults in Adelaide

Adelaide Personal Trainers welcome any and all older adults to participate in strength training with our very experienced trainers, many of who regularly train clients well into their 60′s and beyond.

For more information, please call us on 08 8378 1379 to arrange a consultation, and we look forward to helping you feel great again, getting out and about and enjoying more out of life.

Note: This page is based on an article written by Tammy Petersen published in 2007, titled “Strength Training for Seniors” and is available only to fitness professionals and members of PTontheNet.