Hot Fit Pilates Class
Hot FIT Pilates is for those that Like It Hot and like to keep fit and active!!
This challenging full body, low impact, fat burning, high intensity workout is performed on a yoga mat & towel in a room heated to 37 degrees.
The room is heated using Infrared Technology providing deep tissue penetration and elevating the heart rate, increasing the intensity of your workout.
Hot Fitness incorporates the 6 core Fundamentals of Pilates.
Benefits of Hot Pilates Classes
Hot FIT Pilates incorporates the Fundamentals of Pilates (Breath & Powerhouse connection), H.I.I.T. (High Intensity Interval Training), Resistance Training (with Thera Bands & Pilates Rings), Weight Training (for strength & tone), and Pilates Balls (for balance & strength).
This low-impact class will strengthen your whole body safely, and keep your heart rate up, while helping you burn fat and boosting your metabolism! With fun and motivational music, 60 minutes will fly by! Within a few classes you will see the benefits, such as; weight loss, a stronger core, increased strength, and less stress.
I have heard from a few of you “Is this for me?” The low-impact design of the class makes it safe for all fitness levels. It is for EVERYONE who is looking to increase strength, build long lean muscles, create a stronger core, get fit and feel amazing! If you have never done a hot class before come to a gentle warm yoga class first.
Get excited to challenge yourself in a new way, feel your body getting stronger, and transform your life!
The 6 Principles of Pilates
- Breathing
Breathing is the most important part of exercise that people should learn the art of. Filling your lungs until they feel full and then exhale all the air back out helps you to focus on the exercise and pushes the blood to your muscles. - Concentration
If you focus and become more mindful of each movement, you will get the most out of each exercise. Concentration and focus improves the connection between your mind and body and gives you a better awareness of your body’s movements. - Centering
Pilates calles the core the “powerhouse” of your body and is where all energy for exercise comes from. If you focus on your core, you can not only calm your body and spirit, but help your muscles work more efficiently. - Control
Controlling and pacing your movements will allow you to direct every movement with correct form. Proper, safe and complete muscle control is better for getting good results than speed and high intensity. - Precision
Performing an exercise with deliverate accuracy is more important than doing lots of repititions with poor form. - Flow
Each movement in Pilates should be smooth and graceful – think of ballet!
Continuous, smooth and elegant movement as you work from one pose, exercise or movement to another helps increase your strength and stamina.
Is Hot Fit Pilates for me?
I hear you asking “Is this for me?” The low-impact design of the class makes it safe for all fitness levels. It is for EVERYONE who is looking to increase strength, build long lean muscles, create a stronger core, get fit and feel amazing! If you have never done a hot class before come to a gentle warm yoga class first.
Get excited to challenge yourself in a new way, feel your body getting stronger, and transform your life!
Increases your metabolism and helps you lose weight
The heat increases your heart rate, without even having to do anything. This turns a regular pilates/fitness class into a cardio infused workout. This is amazing for the entire cardiovascular system as it increases cardiovascular abilities, increases the amount of calories burned in and after class, and speeds up the metabolism.
It helps build focus and concentration
A hot room adds intensity. When you’re lunging and squatting with sweat dripping from your face, all you may want to do is stop, but you hone in on your will power, focus, and determination.
Hot Pilates/Fitness helps build self-belief in what you are capable of achieving and creates a positive mindset that you can take out and apply in your daily life.
It helps to maintain glowing skin
When you sweat, you expel dirt and grime from your pores. And sweat also helps to keep skin moist and hydrated. This can be especially helpful in winter when we cover up and use a lot of artificial heating. This means your skin is less likely to experience breakouts or dryness and you’ll develop a natural glow only given by healthy and happy skin.
Heat is therapeutic
Heat therapy has been used for centuries. When the body is heated, more blood vessels dilate, which promotes blood flow. Increased blood flow can aid in pain relief. Toxins can be flushed out of injured areas of the body allowing for better range of movement. It’s especially beneficial for lower back pain, muscle aches and pains.
Hot Pilates warms your muscles up from the get go, it increases your flexibility and also reduces the risk of injury as the muscle is already well warmed up.
Builds core strength and reduces the risk of back pain
Pilates works the core specifically and deliberately. Especially some of the deeper core muscles that are impossible to see, but crucial to health and mobility.
A strong core also helps reduces back pain. When we have a weak core sometimes the lower back muscles can get tight. To support the spine, we need to create strong healthy muscles around it to keep it exactly where it’s meant to be. And the core is one of the most important elements of this. As are the glute muscles (which also get a killer workout in pilates). This is not just about the abdominal muscles that run along the front of the stomach area (“abs”), but the deeper more supportive muscles are also incredibly important. This is why full body movements using the core in the HIIT component of Hot Pilates and a range of different core exercises (not just crunches) is important and beneficial for spine health.
Who is the Hot Fit Pilates class for?: Fit and Active
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