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Let’s say you can do an exercise to one side but not as well to the other, somewhere you have created a muscle imbalance. The body will then go to the side of least resistance, meaning you will continue to strengthen the strong side, which will continue to weaken the opposite side of the body. If turning to the left is much harder than the right, you are probably not efficiently recruiting the correct muscles and the movement becomes stilted because you are asking other muscles to do what they are not meant to do. As this continues, you are setting yourself up for injury. Repeat this over and again, you create weaknesses until the body says “enough”.

How do you figure out where the weakness lies? If you are aware of your body and how it feels as you move in space, you may be able to figure out what is not working well. Even if you are aware of your body, it can be difficult to know if you are holding yourself appropriately because you move the same way each time and that becomes natural to you even though it may be inaccurate. This is where having trained eyes is beneficial. We can pick up the detrimental movements and then get you to change your patterns by asking you to move in ways that your body will remember without you over correcting. The new movement patterns will then become natural to you, preventing further injury or recurrence of injury.

Using 10 of the basic Pilates mat exercises, we zoom into the movement and look for cheats in the body. This measurable method allows the examiner to assess their clients every 6 weeks to 6 months to see what movement improved and what effect it has on normal life.

By doing these exercises, a certain pattern starts to show and with these results you design an individualised program to follow until the client gets assessed again giving the client more certainty that they are seeing evidence-based results.