Pilates, Core Conditioning and Flat Tummies

Broadly speaking, your core muscles refer to a group of muscles around your trunk: your abdominal muscles and those around your lower back, pelvis and hips.

Pilates and general training of these core muscles helps to create a flatter-looking stomach and an improved posture. It also helps to prevent and alleviate back pain. Pilates itself is a series of exercises that uses your own body as resistance in order to create or improve muscle tone. And you're using your deep abdominal muscles so that your stomach looks flatter even when you haven't lost weight.

Whether or not you want to improve your appearance so you appear taller and slimmer, or whether you're an athlete looking to create a strong base from which your limbs operate, strengthening the area around your middle is very important.

Pilates and Core Work for the Athlete

For those wishing to enhance their sporting performance, core training is essential for performance and injury prevention. Imagine that your core is like the base of a crane: it needs to provide good, solid support for both upper and lower body. Laura's core conditioning experience is diverse - her clients include London's Serpentine Running Club, established running coaches and elite athletes.

Laura also works extensively with people who are totally new to the concept of Pilates and has helped them locate long forgotten stomach muscles!

To book a session or to find out how Laura can help you get into shape, email her at laura@laurawilliamsonline.co.uk

Or call her on 07712 001525.