According to James Brown, “It’s a Man’s World,” so why not educate Men all over the world with the origin of Pilates, and how the innovation of this form of exercise has proven to reduce or eliminate pain and aches in a man’s body? Because even in a Future that is Female, the founders and instructors at Blue Chip Conditioning understand the importance for a man to lead his everyday life with his full strength and confidence. So whether you are an athlete, construction worker, healthcare worker, or stay at home dad, there are always improper, but natural tendencies that your body resorts to when exerting strength or heavy lifting with your extremities.
Pilates for Men
Pilates is the key to building deep core strength in men, and can help reduce muscular imbalances and any associated aches and pains in the body. Furthermore, these are the top three fitness goals easily accomplished by men who practice Pilates:
1. A solid and strong deep core, to support any heavy lifting.
2. Learning to step out of your comfort zone by challenging your range of motion, and developing strength in these new ranges.
3. Increased flexibility and mobility will start to feel natural, therefore moving better, faster, and stronger will be the norm!
All of a sudden, golf balls will be hit further, giving your children piggyback rides will not result in pain or pinched nerves, or the weight normally bench pressed during a workout will feel light. Who knew that all of that and more, would be the result of Joseph Hubertus Pilates’ unconventional exercise experiment. Joseph Hubertus Pilates, the founder of Pilates, as a sickly child turned to exercise and athletics to battle those ailments and was always studying various exercise regimens to expand his knowledge base. He became enamoured by the classical Greek ideal of a man balanced in body, mind, and spirit, and he began to develop his own exercise system based on that very concept.
At the outbreak of World War I, Joe was interned as an “enemy alien” with other German nationals. During his internment, Joe refined his ideas and trained other internees in his system of exercise, which allowed news of it to quickly grow out of range from the widespread internment camps. He rigged springs to hospital beds, enabling bedridden patients to exercise against resistance, an innovation that led to his later life-changing equipment designs. The evolution of Pilates, thanks to Joseph Pilates and his proteges’ work throughout the decades, has become so influential in today’s fitness mainstream. The Pilates business has boomed and today, over 10 million Americans practice Pilates and the percentage of men who practice Pilates is growing exponentially. This shows beyond doubt, that Pilates was made by a man, for men.
