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The Art of Teaching Pilates
Most of us spend about 45 percent of our waking hours listening: radio, TV, spouse, children, parents, friends, employers, employees, friends and teachers – that’s us! Yet we are constantly distracted, preoccupied or forgetful about 75 percent of that time. Marketing studies indicate that the average attention span for adults is 22 seconds. When we [...]
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A Lifetime of Moving Through Pilates
“Mens sana in corpore sano.” This was what I heard repeated frequently, even endlessly, it seemed. But as a teenage dance student, I had little idea, in the beginning, what it meant or who the mysterious “Joe” was who issued this dictum. In time, the explanations came from our instructor: “A sane mind in a sound [...]
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Motor Learning and Control Fundamentals
Definitions Motor Skills: actions that require voluntary head, body and/or limb movement to achieve a specific outcome Motor Control: how the neuromuscular system functions to initiate and coordinate the muscles and limbs in order to achieve the desired motor skill Motor Learning: involves the acquisition of those motor skills, the enhancement of a motor skill or the reacquisition [...]
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Interview with Hope Gillerman