Standing Pilates for Balance & Strength | Pegasus

🧘‍♀️ Join us for our monthly Standing Pilates class at Pegasus Community Centre, designed to improve your posture, strengthen your spine and trunk muscles, and work your lower body, especially feet and ankles.

What to expect:

• A weight-bearing form of exercise that enhances balance and strength
• Suitable for those with limited mobility through to reasonable mobility
• Takes place on the 1st Wednesday of every month
• Free entry or koha (donation) welcome

Venue: Pegasus Community Centre, 8 Tahuna Street, Pegasus 7612

Contact: Pilates Lab - 021 858 378 or pilateslab.nz@gmail.com

Benefits of Standing Pilates for Kiwis of All Ages

Standing Pilates offers a brilliant alternative to traditional mat-based Pilates, making it particularly accessible for those who might find floor exercises challenging. This upright approach to Pilates brings several unique advantages to your fitness journey:

• Improved everyday function: By exercising in a vertical position, you'll strengthen the muscles you use daily for walking, climbing stairs, and maintaining balance
• Enhanced posture awareness: Standing exercises heighten your awareness of alignment, helping correct postural issues that contribute to back pain and discomfort
• Better balance and stability: Working against gravity challenges your core and stabilising muscles more intensely than floor exercises
• Increased bone density: The weight-bearing nature of standing Pilates helps promote bone health, particularly important for older adults
• Greater ankle and foot strength: Often overlooked in fitness routines, standing Pilates specifically targets these crucial areas for better overall stability

This class creates a supportive environment where you can progress at your own pace while building fundamental strength that translates directly to improved mobility in everyday life. The combination of mindful movement with functional strength training makes Standing Pilates an excellent choice for those looking to maintain or improve their physical wellbeing.