Learn to Run week five: Which exercises are best for me?
Wow five weeks in! I was asked a fantastic question at this past class that gave me the idea for this blogpost. How do I know which are the best running exercises for me? Of course!!! We’ve created this conditioning class and taught you so many exercises but how do you know which are the […]
Continue readingLearn to Run Week Four – Let’s extend the hips!
WOW! Four weeks! How did it go? In this class we explored hip extension for running. Coupling hip extension of one leg with the flexion of the other is how you find stride length safely! Remember that first week when we taught airplane? We mentioned hugging your knee as close to your chest as much […]
Continue readingLearn to Run Week 3: Condition to Run
Happy Mother’s day and Happy week three of The Pilates Studio’s Learn to run series. My hope is that people are starting to feel the added strength in the tissues around the hips. As well as the mobility in the hip sockets and thoracic spine. In the next weeks we will begin to focus on […]
Continue readingLearn to Run: Week 2
Wow! We are off to a great start! It was so fun to see the progress of everyone in the second week of our Learn to Run course! If you want a sense of the fabulous strengthening chaos that is our Learn to Run course check out the picture! That is what a well used […]
Continue readingRUNITY: How a conditioning program helped me finally Learn to Run
Before RUNITY Every spring there was this voice in my head that said, “I need to get in shape, maybe I should start running.” Yes, I was really good at Pilates, but I had enough knowledge to know that there is more to fitness than just Pilates. Countless times I googled a couch to 5k […]
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