The Reformer is the most popular and diverse piece of Pilates apparatus. It was created by the founder of the Pilates method – Joseph Pilates to rehabilitate soldiers from World War I.It mimics a hospital bed, where the wounded soldiers could exercise by pressing and pulling the movable bed (carriage) back and forth.The resistance is created by springs and can …
The Hundreds is the first exercise Joseph Pilates loved starting his classes with.He thought of the Hundreds as an warm-up exercise, before introducing more complex movements, such as spinal flexion, extension and rotation. The Hundreds basically is a guided, controlled breathing up to a 100 breaths, divided in 10 consecutive sets (5 inhales and 5 exhales), performed in a curled-up …