January Newsletter

Happy New Year! Hope you all had wonderful Christmas and New Year’s celebrations! With all the family and fun, we know how hard it is to remember to get your workout in. So, let’s make this the month for getting back on schedule and keeping up the hard work with Pilates.

New Classes:
This month we are adding a great new fun class called Cardio Pilates. Class will begin mid-January and will be held at 11:00 am on Tuesdays. This class will kick up your metabolism by adding cardio to your reformer workout using the jump board. It will burn more calories, increase endurance, strengthen your muscles and develop your core even more than before.

Upcoming events:
Happy Birthday Studio A Pilates!
This month Studio A Pilates is celebrating its 1 year anniversary. We will be hosting an open house at the end of the month. Come and enjoy fun, food, and drinks with us! Date coming soon.

Housekeeping:
Just a little reminder of our studio policies:
Cancellations: If you need to cancel your appointment or class, PLEASE let us know by the evening before. There are other clients who might want to come to class you are in for the day and without notice, we can’t notify them that there is a spot. If we don’t hear from you, you will be charged and lose that session.

Expirations:
We are now standing firm with our policy of expiration dates for packages purchased. If you purchased 12 sessions, private or class, you have 3 months to get them all in or you will lose the remainder. If you purchased 6 sessions, private or class, you have 2 months to fufill them.

Exercise of the Month:
Hundreds:

Lie on your back with your legs bent in tabletop position with your shins and ankles parallel to the floor. Inhale.

Exhale: Bring your head up with your chin down and, using your abs, curl your upper spine up off the floor. Keep the shoulders engaged in the back. Your gaze is down into the scoop of the abdominals. Stay here and inhale.

Exhale: At the same time, deepen the pull of the abs and extend your arms and legs. Your legs reach toward where the wall and ceiling meet in front of you. You can adjust them higher if need be, or lower for more advanced work. They should only be as low as you can go without shaking and without the lower spine jumping up off the mat. Your arms extend straight and low, just a few inches off floor, with the fingertips reaching for the far wall. Hold your position.

Take five short breaths in and five short breaths out (like sniffing in and puffing out). While doing so, move your arms in a controlled up and down manner - a small pumping of the arms.

Be sure to keep your shoulders and neck relaxed. It is the abdominal muscles that should be doing all the work.

Do a cycle of 10 full breaths. Each cycle is five short in-breaths and then five short out-breaths.The arms pump up and down a few inches, in unison with your breath.
Keep your abs scooped, your back flat on the floor, and your head an extension of your spine, with the gaze down. OK - not hard!