Singapore’s Pilates trends of 2011 by PowerMoves Pilates in the Park

• Keeping Fit while Having Fun in our integrated waterways and parklands: Through Singapore's ABC (active, beautiful and clean) waters programme, more people are finding new vibrancy and quality of life in our revamped parks. With meandering rivers and tranquil lushness spanning the length of our urbanised city-state of Singapore, from Pandan to Punggol and Bedok to Bishan, families are embracing the outdoors in the park for fun and fitness as a way of life.
• Low Impact but High Yield Exercises through Pilates: People today are growing more affluent but the population is ageing and the stresses of balancing work and family can be intense. Both physical health and mental wellness have become a priority. Besides lengthening and strengthening your muscles, Pilates is low-impact on the body and benefits your emotional health. The smooth, steady movements calm your mind and soothe your nervous system. Pilates improves your circulation and builds endurance in a therapeutical way. Each workout will leave you feeling calm, centred and balanced, and you walk out of each PowerMoves class looking leaner, taller and more toned; and feeling recharged and youthful.
• Multiple Benefits in One Regime: Men and women today have less time but want all the benefits available from a cardiovascular workout (to build endurance and burn fat), interval training (to intensify workouts and calorie-burn), and weight training (to maintain bone density and increase muscle mass ~ the more muscle you build, the more efficient your metabolism will be). PowerMoves offers them their choice of all these benefits in one fitness regime.

Here at PowerMoves Pilates-in-the-Park Singapore, we would like to see you:
• Make healthy food choices ~ fruits and vegetables have antioxidants that protect against major illnesses, calcium is good for our bones, protein like fish aids cell renewal and keeps your heart healthy, fibre-rich foods leave you feeling more satisfied for longer;
• Stay active ~ the body was created to be a moving one ~ do something you enjoy, do it with a friend or a trainer, do it often and do it right!

Now at PowerMoves Pilates-in-the-Park Singapore, our programmes for you include:
• Unlimited Pilates Matwork ~ four weeks is all it takes to strengthen and tighten the muscles holding your body together ~ look and feel positively different with your daily dose of PowerMoves Pilates in just one month;
• Pre Natal Pilates ~ develop strong abdominals, a flexible and powerful pelvic floor, and a supportive back while achieving ideal alignment and coordinating movement with breath ~ ensuring a comfortable and rewarding pregnancy;
• Rehabilitative Pilates ~ Pilates is widely practised for its rehabilitative as well as its fitness benefits ~ regular practice of Pilates ensures improved balance, coordination and circulation as well as increased core strength and stability ~ emphasized through controlled movements and correct breathing which helps to ease pain, stiffness and rigid joints;
• Jumpstart Pilates Fitness ~ achieving your 2011 resolution of a fit & fab body through PowerMoves Pilates ~ every workout forces the use of core muscles and combines the benefits of strength training, calorie burn and the flexibility benefits of Yoga;
• Pilates Body Reformer ~ working with Pilates equipment helps in correcting all muscular imbalance, improving muscle elasticity and joint mobility resulting in a long, lean and flexible evenly-conditioned body ~ with desired results that remain with you forever.



Mrs Claudel Kuek is Pilates Director of the PowerMoves Pilates in the Park chain of fitness centres. Winner of Most Beautiful Pilates Studios and Most Outstanding Service Quality; http://www.powermoves.com.sg/ is located in the beautiful parklands of Bishan Park and Dempsey Hill Singapore.