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Beautiful moves by Australian Ballet Soloist, Davi Ramos being expertly taken through his paces by @Helen Stamatakos of Pilates Insync.

Poetry in motion, no explanation necesaary.

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Cable loaded seated windshield wipers for those spinal rotators.

Thanks to @mg.360.gr for this video

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@vlmovementtherapist demonstrating what in gymnastics is known as a “circle” often performed by male gymnasts on a pommel horse.

True to form, Vanessa chose a more difficult variation of this exercise where she completes one circle, stops and goes back the othrr way. It’s easier to keep goijg in the same direction and repeat multiple circles.

If you look carefully you will see that Vanessa preloads the upper body / closed kinetic chain / stable limbs to get the moveemnt started and then the force is transferred through the core, hips and lower body.

Follow Vanessa for links to her vlog and podcast.

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Functional? Integrated? Non-isolationist movements and exercises…it’s not the label that matters, it’s the results and benefits.

This lateral tuck on the freeFORM Board loads the obliques on the frontal plane but as it’s an alternating lateral tuck, it also loads them on the transverse plane and the rectus abdominal and the hip flexors and quads are all involved.

Observe the movement and load in the shoulders, the spine, the hips, the knees, the ankles…almost everything is moving to some degree.

To top it off, the Power Plate is oscillating up and down 30 times every second stimulating muscle activation, bone density, neural-stimulation and circulation.

That’s a well invested 45 seconds of clients time.

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Too many good things going on to break any of it down. Just enjoy the visual and technical aesthetics of synchronized freeFORMing with a Wunda Chair @pilatesinsync on Menia, Sydney.

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Front leg quads, glutes and hammies. With the band resistance the rear leg also loads the glutes and hammies.

Upper body biceps, triceps and you won’t need Red Bull because those shoulder extensions will give you wings 🪽 there’s some hip flexor mobility, some cardio, core activation…lead leg foot, ankle, knee and hip stability.

I’m sure I’ve missed something but what more do you really need?

Thanks @bradleeon and @leeonstudiopilates - inspiring as always

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This freeFORM mountain climber is loaded with bands around the ankles making it especially demanding both metabolically and also from the hip flexors.

I like to program this one as a score exercise and a body exercise that gets the heart pumping fast. As much as the lower body is moving, the upper body has to control that force as do the abs and core.

Thanks to @mg360.gr all the way in Greece for this and all of their other videos 👋

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What movements can the hip joint perform? Flexion / extension, abduction / adduction, horizontal abduction and adduction, internal and external rotation, circumduction and complex combinations of all of the above.

These movements can be performed in combination with knee and ankle and spinal and shoulder movements which are all perfectly natural and healthy for the body.

What movements does the freeFORM Board support?

ALL OF THR ABOVE ✅ and the equivalent concept applies to every limb and joint that is supported by the board.

“It’s what the body does naturally” which is so simple and yet, so complex to understand.

Thanks to @freeform_pilates and @swanpilates.us for the video.

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Just move on up through different resitance levels using these reverse roll out variations. There are so many ways to make freeFORM exercises more challenging or more accessible.

Thanks to Tom @protomfitness in Bristol, UK for the more advanced variation of this exercise.

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Sorry friends and fans but this is my new favorite freeFORMer. Great core contorl and reactive skills.

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Sometimes it’s like being a kindergarten teacher 😆

Even so, how much fun are they having?

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Here is a double board freeFORM flow by @kimberleyjuster of @shoesoffliving Pilates studio on The Gold Coast.

A freeFORM Mountain Climber, alternating knees to elbows and 360 degree hip circumduction. The squat to stand is only for very advanced freeFORMers because the consequence of a loss of balance can be high for some people but an advanced person can execute the move and also has the right bail out reflexes if it were to go wrong.

The thing with these flows is that the load is shifting as is the stretch / tension, balance and coordination and exercises performed back to back can also be metabolically challenging.

The beauty of freeFORM is that it supports everything from the most basic rehab to elite conditioning and performance.

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Yesterday I posted a video of Brad Leeon replicating a Reformer exercise on a freeFORM Board and said that that was the starting point of how you translate Pilates exercises onto the boards.

Here Brad is demonstrating a freeFORM flow transitioning from one direction to another and from one exercise to another.

Unlimited range of motion with unrestricted diirection of motion plus the entire way that the freeFORM Board was designed supports these exercise transitions.

There are many other ways to integrate freeFORM into the Pilates methodology and the diversity of exercises is literally endless.

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Step 1 is to replicate the movements, exercises, shapes that you perform on your other, mostly linear devices.

Step 2 is to realize that the distance and direction you can move on has NO LIMITS.

Then you can begin to tweak exercises or flow from one exercises to another.

Thanks to Brad Leeon for all of the education and promotional support over the years.

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Baptism of fire 🔥 when a professional athlete is introduced to the freeFORM Board.

There’s been quite a few occasions when I’ve put an elite athletes on a freeFORM Board. These are people who have been training hard, lifting weights and pushing their endurance to the limit and are often shocked at how challenging body weight exercise can be.

Over time, these athletes become stronger, more agile and most importantly, more efficient in their movement and learn to consume less energy and with better balance.

For those that don’t know, @pilatesinsync are specialists in providing Pilates to elite athletes and entire sporting teams so if you’re an athlete or coach and need to integrate movement control with flexibility and tensile strength to your athletes, look them up…located in #menai south Sydney.

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freeFORM Board in a Power Plate Circuit at Gem Ainsi Power Plate Studio in France

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After a tuck and after a pike comes a single leg tuck in order of progression. It’s not only that one leg and hip flexor and side of the torso have to carry more load anteriorly, they also have to control unwanted lateral flexion and rotation of the hips.

In this version the upper base of support is elevated on the elbows. Having hands on the floor provides similar height but requires more work on the wrists and also the shoulders and upper body.

Thanks to @shoesoffliving for the video

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