The Movementum Pilates program focuses on all five areas essential for optimum results.

Concentration – Body Awareness

• Proper exercise execution
• Muscle contraction in focused areas
• Muscle release and softened in unfocused areas
• Mind controls muscles – neurological connections

Control

• Smooth execution – speed is not important; maintain muscle firmness throughout movement
• Maintaining body control using core stabilization muscles
• Maintaining body control throughout movements within vertical and horizontal plane

Breathing

• Deep breathing – expand lungs; breath through back in rhythm with movements

Movement

• Consistent motion throughout all exercises
• Non-stop ongoing fluid motions
• Full extensions and range of motion without over extending or locking joints
• Maintaining all movements within sphere of body

Body Position

• Neutral spine vs. imprinted spine
• Scapula flattening
• Abdominal positioning
• Center of gravity