FAQ
Why Come To The Body Gallery?
We have clients who have been coming to the studio since the doors opened. The Body Gallery is a deep-rooted studio that opened up in 1999. The trainers are highly skilled, supportive and enthusiastic about what they do.
It is a friendly boutique sized studio focused on personalized Pilates. Our clients receive our full attention during every session. No one body is alike, each workout is tailored to the specific needs of the client.
The studio is a wonderful space for those who are looking for high quality training in a quiet, focused environment.
What Is Pilates?
Pilates is a comprehensive exercise program that primarily focuses on strengthening the core. It uses a spring based series of equipment with over 600 exercises available.
What Is The Core?
The core is a connective pathway of muscles used to support your body so it can do all things you want it to do, pain free. The Pilates core includes your inner thighs, pelvic floor, psoas, glutes, the transverse abdominal, multifidus, and the internal/external obliques.
Who Can Do Pilates?
Pilates is for everybody.
It's a comprehensive method of exercises that can be modified to meet the needs of each client. All clients build muscular integrity and body awareness skills that can be incorporated into everyday life.
Teens, in particular, will absolutely benefit from the benefits of Pilates. Their bodies can change more quickly than adults because their hormones have not locked down into the muscles that are beginning to overcompensate and develop into a habitual movement pattern.
Why Should I Invest In Personalized Training When Group Classes Are Cheaper?
If you want to experience and receive the deep rooted benefits of Pilates it is best you work with a trainer. You will be learning a whole new way to function and live in your body. It is important to have guidance through this process. To have someone there who will teach you what muscles you are feeling, what muscles you should be working, and what muscles should be relaxed in order to have balance in your body. This kind of focus and awareness is unfamiliar and challenging, it is more effective and safer to have a trainer work with you during this discovery process so you know you are doing the exercises correctly.
What Should I Look For In A Trainer?
An experienced and certified trainer will work attentively with you, continue to discuss your long and short term goals while keeping you challenged. The trainer should be able to modify each workout according to your needs during that session. Look for a trainer who is hands on, uses verbal cues, demonstrates the exercises and uses all the equipment and props available to them. The trainer should have general knowledge of anatomy, physiology and kinesiology and advise you to see a specialist if necessary.
What Should I Look For In A Pilates Studio?
Pilates is a mind body experience. In order to truly benefit from what Pilates can offer, it's crucial for you to be able to focus, internalize and pay attention to your body. It's important the studio you go to creates an environment for you to be able to achieve this.
How Often Should I Do Pilates?
We recommend 2-4 times a week. Twice a week with a trainer is ideal while supplementing with the mat work throughout the week.
How Long Will It Take Before I Notice A Difference In My Body?
Generally speaking, Joseph Pilates said, " You'll feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions and have a completely different body in thirty sessions.." Of course everyone has a different body and a different response rate.
Will I Lose Weight Doing Pilates?
Pilates is not a" weight loss" exercise program. Pilates will encourage weight loss when partnered with a sensible diet and a cardiovascular routine.
What Should I Eat Before A Pilates Session?
Pilates has a strong focus on the abdominal muscles groups, so it's best to eat quite light so as not to have a full stomach.
What Should I Wear To A Session?
Comfortable clothes, easy to move around in. Leggings and sweats work well with tank tops or semi form fitting shirts.
What's The Difference Between Yoga and Pilates?
The major difference is that Pilates not only has a comprehensive mat work routine, but it incorporates work on the Pilates machines. The focus of the exercises is to strengthen the core, improve posture, stabilize and lengthen the spine, improve balance and overall strength. Pilates is about movement that not only works the whole body but also isolates and works more specifically within a chosen muscle group. The Pilates breath pulls in with the abs as oppose to filling the abs up with breath.