Fitness

Jan has practiced dragon boating for 13 years. She loves the team spirit of the sport, being outside on the water immersed in the beauty of the sea, and the challenge and fun. “Races are very intense. You usually have between 18 and 22 individual paddlers, but essentially you are all stroking together as if you are one giant person. The paddles must be entering the water, ripping through and exiting all at the same time.” A Pilates instructor for 11 years, she explains how Pilates can hugely improve your dragon boating game.

Every year the world celebrates Pilates on Pilates Day, the first Saturday of May. Across the globe community events and promotions honour the legacy left by Josef Pilates and the healing he has brought to millions in the past, as well as today and going into the future. Flex Studio will be celebrating this day throughout the month of May, so come in and take advantage of our promotions and freebies!

Tennis is a high speed, high impact game requiring mobility, flexibility and power. Pilates is a great way to boost your performance by improving spinal rotation and extension, abdominal control and muscle strength. Here are Flex’s 4 favourite exercise to help you with your tennis game. Perform them regularly for a better range of motion, a more powerful swing and an improved performance on the court.

Lifelong tennis player Rhonda noticed that she approached her movement and shots differently when using her Pilates knowledge

Swimming is a very technique driven sport requiring
power, control and correct body alignment to glide
through the water. Pilates can help improve performance
in the pool by enhancing core control, flexibility, breathing
and body strength. Here are our 4 recommended exercises
to help you explode off the blocks and through the water
this summer.

Evelyn Hue took up Pilates over ten years ago in 2005 our of curiosity, and it wasn’t long before she had trained to be an instructor (check out her classes at Flex), adding to her qualifications as a fitness consultant, personal trainer and group fitness instructor at her company EvieFit. While it helps her with all her sports – think running, surfing and golf – she has found it has been particularly beneficial when it comes to her swimming and here she explains why.