Athletic Conditioning on Stability Cushions™

Discover a new and intensive core training workout featuring the Stability Cushions. Controlling instability with a pair of cushioned disks requires activation of the stabilizing muscles of the torso, shoulders and hips. Exercises are designed to illicit greater proprioceptive awareness and recruit the deep support systems of the whole body while developing greater co-ordination and control. Discover a new facet to Matwork programs that increase body awareness and core stability in movements that bridge the gap between simple core training routines and functional movement patterns necessary in athletic conditioning.

Functional Athletic Core Conditioning and Training

Effective athletic training and conditioning requires a complete blend of both customary and alternative training methodologies. Discover a fusion of traditional Pilates moves and principles with familiar fitness and resistance training using a multi purpose mat unit. Utilizing a moveable bar to facilitate positions which enable greater range of motion, explore how it can provide support resulting in increased movement variability. Spring resistance is also incorporated to increase specialized programming options and conditioning requirements.

Athletic Core Conditioning on the Cardio-Tramp™

In this workshop, participants will learn innovative new programming on the STOTT PILATES Reformer and Cardio-Tramp. The workout, designed to stimulate both cardiovascular and muscular effectiveness is ideal for both the recreational and professional athlete. Discover how to combine progressive plyometric intervals, varying both in length and intensity, with muscular strength and endurance moves on the vertical mini trampoline. The routine features non-traditional Pilates exercises that use the incredible diversity of the Reformer to effectively train both concentric and eccentric muscular ability.

Cardio & Core on the Mini-Tramp

Working out on a mini trampoline is safer and burns more calories than running! This energizing workout combines 30 minutes of intensive cardio on the gravity-defying Mini-Tramp with 20 minutes of powerful STOTT PILATES® Matwork™ to condition the core. Participants will learn proper technique to get the most of the aerobic component and develop agility and coordination. The specially chosen mat exercises will complement this high-energy routine which will give any client a reason to come back for more.

Pilates Weight Loss Boost

Kick your metabolism into high gear with this intensive, energy-boosting mat workout. Take advantage of the body’s natural ability to burn fat throughout the day and also help chase away stress while building overall strength and endurance. Select STOTT PILATES® Matwork™ exercises are combined in innovative and powerful sequences that gradually increase in rhythm, pace and intensity to help rev up the body’s fat burning capacity.

Cueing & Modifications on the Reformer
for an Essential-Level Client with Postural Issues

Clients with specific postural issues require specialized programming to effectively realign the skeleton and re-balance muscles. This lecture/demo reviews exercises from the Essential Reformer repertoire and explores how these movements can be modified for each individual. Specific postural habits are discussed with particular focus paid to muscular imbalances associated with aspects of the following postures: kyphosis-lordosis, sway back and flat back. How to recognize and target lengthened, weak, shortened or tight muscles due to postural habits, what exercises to select and appropriate cues and modifications will be examined.

Intermediate Matwork™: Functional Anatomy, Cueing & Correcting

Focus on the details of cueing and correcting many of the more difficult Matwork™ moves in this Intermediate Matwork™ workshop. Select exercises will be broken down to identify the specific joint movement and muscular action. Learn cueing tips and modifications to help your clients progress into this more challenging work while maintaining good form. Review observation skills and verbal cues and see real changes in the way your clients move.

Intermediate Reformer: Functional Anatomy, Cueing & Correcting

Focus on the details of cueing and correcting many of the more difficult Reformer moves in this Intermediate Reformer workshop. Select exercises will be broken down to identify the specific joint movement and muscular action. Learn cueing tips and modifications to help your clients progress into this more challenging work while maintaining good form. Review observation skills and verbal cues and see real changes in the way your clients move.

Intermediate Stability Chair™:
Functional Anatomy, Cueing & Correcting

Focus on cueing and correcting many of the more difficult Stability Chair™ moves in this Intermediate Stability Chair™ workshop. Select exercises will be broken down to identify the specific joint movement and muscular action. Learn cueing tips and modifications to help our clients progress into this more challenging work while maintaining good form. Review observation skills and verbal cue and see real changes in the way your clients move.

Group Matwork™ Classes: Teaching Skills & Programming Choices

Teaching group classes can be challenging. How do you ensure all your clients get a good workout safely in a group situation? This workshop will focus on the programming, cueing, and correction skills you need to safely progress your clients through a series of Matwork™ classes. Learn to keep the class moving while giving individual corrections, make exercise choices that make sense in a group scenario, and give modifications and transitions that work.

Group Reformer Classes: Teaching Skills & Programming Choices

Teaching group classes on the Reformer can be challenging. How do you ensure all your clients get a good workout safely in a group situation? This workshop will focus on the programming, cueing, and correction skills you need to safely progress your clients through a series of Reformer classes. Learn to keep the class moving while giving individual corrections, make exercise choices that make sense in a group scenario, and give modifications and transitions that work.

Personal Training Matwork™: Teaching Skills & Programming Choices

Specific tools and information are needed to better train Pilates clients one-on-one. Learn how to cue and correct to help clients achieve optimal form. Discover how to observe clients to see if they are stable, correctly aligned, moving fluidly and efficiently, using the right amount of resistance or using correct equipment adjustments. See how to modify exercises using starting position, range of motion, preparations, and varying dynamics to make the exercises even more appropriate.

Personal Training Reformer: Teaching Skills & Programming Choices

This workshop will share the tools and information needed to enhance one-on-one Reformer training. Learn how to cue and correct to help clients achieve optimal form. Discover how to observe clients to see if they are stable, correctly aligned and moving fluidly and efficiently. Find out how to modify exercises using resistance, equipment set up, starting position, range of motion, preparations, and varying dynamics to make exercises appropriate for all clients. Break down certain key exercises on the Reformer, looking at cueing, correcting and modifications to address any personal training client.

Matwork™ Choices for Personal Trainers
using the Flex-Band^® exerciser, Fitness Circle^® resistance ring and Stability Ball™

Personal trainers everywhere are recognizing the benefits of incorporating Pilates-based exercises with their clients. This workshop will break down certain key Matwork™ exercises that will bridge the gap between personal and Pilates training. Learn variations of basic exercises using the Flex-Band® exerciser, Fitness Circle® resistance ring and Stability Ball™ and explore their application to individual clients. Train the eye to pick up variances in stability, mobility and movement patterns. Discover how to cue, correct, use props and modify either to challenge clients further or support them in achieving optimal form.

Teaching Matwork™ to First-Timers OR Matwork™ Orientation Session

The Introductory session may be the most important group Matwork™ class taught. This workshop provides the tools required to ensure this class is motivating, stimulating and will keep first-time clients coming back for more. Selected STOTT PILATES® Essential-level Matwork™ exercises are examined with an eye to maintaining pace and flow so participants ‘feel’ the workout, while still ensuring proper technique. The use of demonstration, imagery and concise cuing and correcting will be discussed while focusing on group safety in the studio.

Teaching Reformer to First-Timers OR Reformer Orientation Session

The FIRST session may be the most important group Reformer class taught. This workshop provides the tools necessary to ensure this class is motivating, stimulating and will keep first-time clients coming back for more. Selected STOTT PILATES® Reformer exercises are examined with an eye to maintaining, pace and flow so members ‘feel’ the workout, while still ensuring proper technique. The use of demonstration, imagery and concise cuing and correcting will be discussed while focusing on group safety in the studio.

Athletic Conditioning on the Edge

Many athletes, whether professional or amateur, are recognizing the benefits alternative training methods like Pilates can provide. Utilizing the Pilates Edge and hand-held Toning Balls™, this high-energy resistance workout strengthens the legs, arms and torso and improves balance and coordination, using powerful tools that add a new dimension to your programming Always initiating from the core, learn how this complete body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and take clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Athletic Conditioning 1 on the Reformer

Learn to take your clients’ game to the next level in this sports conditioning workshop. Improve strength, power and agility through new variations of familiar exercises that challenge unilateral movement, weight transference and core stability. This workshop has a special focus on the core, arms, legs, shoulders and hips as well as rotation. Learn a format on the Reformer perfect for your sports enthusiast clients and athletes of all levels.

Athletic Conditioning 2 on the Reformer

Athletes and trainers alike recognize the benefits of alternative performance enhancing training methods like Pilates. This second-level Reformer workout builds on the first full-body routine placing even more emphasis on core stability, while challenging strength, power and agility. Learn new variations of familiar exercises and unique moves that challenge unilateral movement, weight transference and torso rotation – as well as strength and mobility of arms, legs, shoulders and hips. This high-caliber workout will be perfect for very fit and accomplished sports enthusiasts.

Introduction to Athletic Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus™ Reformer*
2 Hour Format

Serious athletes – whether professional or amateur – benefit greatly from performance enhancement training. This high-caliber introductory workout is designed for instructors and trainers working with very fit and accomplished athletes. Using the STOTT PILATES® V2 Max Plus™ Reformer – an all-in one machine that combines the functionality of the Professional Reformer with the key features and benefits of the Cadillac, experience the virtually endless programming options this piece allows. Always initiating from the core, learn how this complete body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and take clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Athletic Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus™ Reformer*
3 to 4 Hour Format

Serious athletes – whether professional or amateur – benefit greatly from performance enhancement training. This high-caliber workout is designed for instructors and trainers working with very fit and accomplished athletes. Using the STOTT PILATES® V2 Max Plus™ Reformer – an all-in one machine that combines the functionality of the Professional Reformer with the key features and benefits of the Cadillac, experience the virtually endless programming options this piece allows. Always initiating from the core, learn how this complete body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and take clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Complete Athletic Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus™ Reformer*
4 to 6 Hour Format

Serious athletes – whether professional or amateur – benefit greatly from performance enhancement training. This high-caliber workout is designed for instructors and trainers working with very fit and accomplished athletes. Using the STOTT PILATES® V2 Max Plus™ Reformer – an all-in one machine that combines the functionality of the Professional Reformer with the key features and benefits of the Cadillac, experience the virtually endless programming options this piece allows. Always initiating from the core, learn how this complete body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and take clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Athletic Conditioning on the Stability Chair™

The Stability Chair™ can be an ultra-effective, compact piece of equipment for specially designed athletic conditioning workouts. Learn a variety of exercises that can benefit any level of athlete by retraining imbalanced muscles and building on the strength and agility of the whole body. This well-rounded workout provides functional movements against spring resistance in a variety of positions that train core stability while working bilaterally, unilaterally or reciprocally with the limbs to enhance sport-specific performance or everyday life.

Pilates on the Green, Matwork™ for Golf: Level 1

This workout is designed specifically for golfers looking to increase club head speed and get more distance on the drive. Learn specifically chosen and modified STOTT PILATES Matwork™ exercises, which work on increasing focus and body awareness, isolating crucial core muscles and combining the elements of strength with flexibility. Trainers will be able to use this workout to benefit any level golfer from amateur to professional.

Pilates on the Green, Matwork™ for Golf: Level 2

A movement as complex as a golf swing requires focus, strength, flexibility, balance, and power from the ground up. In this interactive level-2 workshop, learn how to use these specially designed intense Matwork™ exercises to help clients sharpen all of those areas. Focus on isolating key physical components that will aid in increasing club head speed to send the ball further down the fairway and get that extra advantage on the green.

Pilates on the Green, Matwork™ for Golf: Level 1 & 2
A combination of Level 1 and Level 2

A movement as complex as a golf swing requires focus, strength, flexibility, balance, and power from the ground up. In this interactive two-level workshop, learn how to use specially designed Matwork™ exercises to help clients sharpen all of those areas. The workshop begins with a warm up at the tee then progresses to modifications and variations which work on increasing focus and body awareness, isolating crucial core muscles and combining the elements of strength with flexibility. Next, more challenging moves that incorporate hand-held Toning Balls™ are demonstrated and executed with a focus on isolating key physical components to help get that extra advantage on the green.

Golf Conditioning on the Reformer

Help raise clients’ golf games to a new level with targeted STOTT PILATES® exercises designed specifically on the Reformer. With a better understanding of the conditioning requirements of golfers, these moves will help improve balance and flexibility and condition the entire body. Discuss the unique benefits of working with Reformer exercises to enhance core stability and body awareness creating a lasting performance boost for any level athlete.

Golf Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus™ Reformer*

There are few pieces of fitness equipment that will help golfers realize the same off-course training benefits as the STOTT PILATES® V2 Max Plus™ Reformer. Discover how to use the unique features of this groundbreaking unit to perform specially designed Reformer-based exercises raise a client’s golf game to a new level. With a better understanding of the conditioning requirements of golfers, these moves will help improve balance and flexibility while enhancing core stability and body awareness. The height adjustable vertical pulley system allows exercises to be performed in sitting, kneeling and even standing positions to create a workout never possible before.

Pilates for Men

Get down on the mat for a workout that’s not for the faint-hearted. Welcome to the full-body workout athletes swear by for sports conditioning, cross training and a strong, injury-resistant core. Every last muscle will feel this challenging routine which uses Toning Balls™ and innovative exercise choices to focus on precision and control.

Reformer Workout for Men

Adding these specially designed STOTT PILATES® Reformer exercises to a male client’s routine will boost athletic performance and strengthen the core to minimize the risk of injury. Learn how to tackle this total body workout for optimum strength, endurance agility and conditioning. Discover how adding hand-held Toning Balls™ to a Reformer workout can build coordination and challenge the body from the inside out.

Muscular Strength & Endurance for Teens NEW

Mind-body exercise like Pilates can be essential to the development in mind and body of pre-teens and teenagers. This mat-based workout incorporates Toning Balls™ and the Fitness Circle® and will provide tons of exercises that can be used to create fun and enjoyable workouts designed to keep teens engaged and challenge them both physically and mentally. In youth, overall body awareness can be beneficial, good posture promotes improved body image and proper breathing techniques help with stress reduction. These issues and more will be addressed with simple functional exercises that focus on stability, balance and flexibility in a fun, quick moving routine designed to promote active lifestyle choices.

Reformer Resistance Training for Teens NEW

Mind-body exercise like Pilates can be essential to the development in mind and body of pre-teens and teenagers. This mat-based workout incorporates Toning Balls™ and the Fitness Circle® and will provide tons of exercises that can be used to create fun and enjoyable workouts designed to keep teens engaged and challenge them both physically and mentally. In youth, overall body awareness can be beneficial, good posture promotes improved body image and proper breathing techniques help with stress reduction. These issues and more will be addressed with simple functional exercises that focus on stability, balance and flexibility in a fun, quick moving routine designed to promote active lifestyle choices.

Matwork™ Interval Training

Kick your metabolism into high gear with this intensive, energy-boosting mat workout. Take advantage of the body’s natural ability to burn fat throughout the day and also help chase away stress while building overall strength and endurance. Select STOTT PILATES® Matwork exercises are combined in innovative and powerful sequences that gradually increase in rhythm, pace and intensity to help rev up the body’s fat-burning capacity.