How Do You Define ‘Pilates’?

We do the workout, we bring our friends, we feel the results - but what would you say if someone were to ask you to define ‘Pilates’?

By pure textbook definition, Pilates is a system of exercises performed on a mat or using special apparatus, designed to improve physical strength, flexibility, and posture, and enhance mental awareness. 

But to us, here are some creative and wholly accurate descriptions we’ve heard! 

• Pilates is all about building your most powerful core. Adaptable, transformative, necessary! 

• Pilates gives you the foundational strength to tackle anything else. 

• It’s core stability, and it helps balance out all other forms of working out!

• Pilates is a type of exercise that will meet anybody’s needs to improve their movement in a graceful way, and at the same time make it extremely challenging.

• Pilates is my happy place, it’s where I go when I know I need to reset, recharge, feel strong, and leave happier. 

Out of all of the definitions we’ve heard, we’ve found a few pieces of common ground. Pilates builds essential core strength, it’s a workout that you can take with you for life, and it’s an exercise for every-body! 

Because Pilates can be modified to provide either a gentle strength training program or a challenging workout, most people would have no problem with this form of exercise. It is suitable both for beginners and for people who already exercise regularly.

How would YOU define ‘Pilates’? Send us an email or DM us on instagram @FusePilates and you could be featured!