WANTED: Pilates Principles for Abs, Posture, and Balance How does a fitness routine like Pilates train clients for better balance, alignment, and to brace with the core? It’s the basic principles of Pilates that are tied into each exercise until the practice becomes like second nature to us… or even first! Joseph Pilates didn’t write out a list of principles, but rather he invented...
Read More“A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.” – Ara Parasheghian A warm summer’s morning. The early sun rises majestically from the lake we call Michigan. Scanning the horizon, the swimmers chug furiously doing the crawl stroke in the final leg in the triathlon. To many, this proves to be the most challenging part of that journey. The first leg, the...
Read MoreAKWA Magazine March 2010 From the classical Greek elements of Fire, Earth, Water, Air and Ether, we draw on two of these, Earth and Water. Plato characterizes these elements as pre- Socrates times originating from the Sicilian philosopher Empedocies (450BC), and persisted through the Middle Ages. Elements refer to a substance, chemical compound or a mixture of chemical compounds. They...
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