What is Adaptive Pilates?

Series Summary

Many people want to lose weight, and despite claims for quick fat burning pills and powders, the best way to lose weight is still through proper diet and exercise. Exercise does more than just maintain physical fitness though. Working out can also help build healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility. It can also reduce your general health risks, boost the immune system, and help with depression and insomnia. Whether your reason for exercising is to lose weight, or improve muscle mass, working out is always a good idea to help promote the health of your body and mind. Functional training is a classification of exercise which involves training the body for the activities performed in daily life. This form of training involves mainly weight bearing activities targeted at core muscles of the abdomen and lower back. In this free video series, a fitness trainer will demonstrate a number of adaptive Pilates exercises for people with disabilities or injuries. With these tips on biceps exercises, shoulder strengthening, neck extensions and more, people with varying levels of physical abilities will be able to utilize Pilates for core exercises.

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Anthony Baron Kirk and I'm an exercise therapist and a pilates teachers. Adaptive pilates is something that I have great personal interest in. There was a family member who was involved in a motorcycle accident some time ago, a decade and a half ago and I had become very involved with techniques with just the upper body figuring out ways to keep the shoulders and the most previous part of their bodies that they still had functioning and provide mobility to and strength. In my own personal background I have had and sustained so many injuries myself. I've had a lifetime worth of childhood based injuries, suffered low back pain and grew too fast and that is something that just sounds so silly but Ozgens slaughters this type of need and you grow too fast. And so I have played with all of these childhood based injuries and I was able to get into the field kind of as a focus for figuring out how to make my own personal body better and healthier and pain free. So my real passion and motivation comes through the ability and understanding of how to look at injury and pain whether it is completely disabling or in a regenerative recuperative way able to overcome certain pains and injuries."