005 Love Life Pilates with Julie Avery - a podcast by Sunjay Vyas

from 2020-05-15T19:14:57

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Get your pilates on!

This week I am joined by my friend Julie Avery. Not only is Julie a friend but she is one of the most knowledgable and experienced pilates instructors I have ever met. Julie and I met in Dubai whilst working for a small boutique gym called Optimal Fitness. She has a wealth of experience in the fitness industry and this is reflected by the loyal following she has in all her classes. Her pilates classes always had a waiting list and I would see the same people turn up each week without fail.

In this podcast we talk about what motivated her to get into the fitness industry, how she found her way to pilates, why pilates is good for the body and what she is doing now since moving back to the UK.

As fellow instructors we talk about group exercise instruction, why you need to be careful in choosing an instructor and what we look out for in other instructors. We discuss pilates technique and exercise technique in general. Here Julie speaks to the fact that pilates movement are very precise and controlled and how important it is to do them correctly. I want to stress that doing them correctly is very different from doing them perfectly. Not everyone (if anyone at all!) has perfect technique and this can be down to limitations in our muscles and joints. But just because you have these limitations doesn’t mean you can’t do the exercise correctly. This may mean taking a regression or breaking the movement down into smaller parts and working on each part separately. Making sure that your spine is in alignment and other joints and muscles are moving the way they are supposed to even if that means that the range of movement is limited. The goal is to do the movement SAFELY for your body.

And this is why I love Julie, this attention to detail, which is an essential quality in a teacher in any discipline!

Be sure to follow Julie in Instagram and Youtube. She is simply @lovelifepilates

Thanks to Purple Planet for all the music featured in this episode.

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Sunjay Vyas

E-Mail: sunjay@staywhole.co.uk

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