Mbodies Training Academy

Mbodies Pilates Partner Studios:

Calling all Pilates Studios! Are you struggling to recruit the calibre of staff for your studio? Why not talk to us about our Mbodies Partner Studio scheme, which facilitates apprentice-style learning and provides the studio with instructor hours, and the student with paid employment once part-one courses are complete.

Tendon Stretch on the Wunda Chair

Who loves a tendon stretch??! Love it or hate it, this exercise is super challenging for the whole body! Working into abdominals, hip flexors, shoulders, leg adductors and hamstrings.

The serratus should be active throughout and shoulders should be flat and wrapped around the ribs. Keep in plantar flexion throughout the exercise to ensure the movement is being initiated from the abdominals. The muscle focus is spinal flexors, shoulder flexors and scapular stabilisation, with the objective of strengthening the abdominals, shoulder flexors and controlling the scapular.

Go on – have a go! Let us know how you get on in the comments below!

Pilates Barrels Course: Professional Pilates Instructor CPD: A complete intensive Pilates Barrels module covering both classical and contemporary Barrel exercises on the Baby Arc, Step Barrel / Spine Corrector, and Ladder Barrels. In excess of 90 exercises suitable for qualified Pilates Matwork instructors and Physiotherapists. All exercises are demonstrated and taught by Comprehensively trained and certified Instructor Trainer and Physiotherapist Loraine Prokopiou and filmed with 3 cameras to give all of the angles you need to learn and perform the repertoire. This course is available fully online with your free tutor support via our education portal included, or a face-to-face consultation can be arranged, if required.

Side lifts (feet down) on the Ladder Barrel

This exercise focuses on lateral flexion of the spine – strengthening and stretching the lateral flexors. This requires activation of the spinal lateral flexors including the obliques, the transverse abdominis, multifidius, hamstrings, QL, adductors, spinal extensors and shoulders muscles to maintain scapular stability.

The exercise requires control whilst lifting and lowering the trunk without flexing the ribcage forward or overusing the upper obliques.

Pilates Chair Course: Professional Pilates Instructor CPD: A complete intensive Pilates Wunda Chair module covering both classical and contemporary Chair exercises. In excess of 90 exercises suitable for qualified Pilates Matwork instructors and Physiotherapists. All exercises are demonstrated and taught by Comprehensively trained and certified Instructor Trainer and Physiotherapist Loraine Prokopiou and filmed with 3 cameras to give all of the angles you need to learn and perform the repertoire. This course is available fully online with your free tutor support via our education portal included, or a face-to-face consultation can be arranged, if required.

Jumpboard on the Pilates Reformer

If you are unsure how to get your heart pumping with your Pilates practice?

Add a little Jumpboard!