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Practically a program handed to you on a plate by @pilatesinsync

Some great strength, stability and flexibility exercises. Some of the ROM movements are quite challenging and some are such feel good exercises that your clients will come back begging for more.

Too many quality movements to break them all down. Please watch and use what you can with the clients that have the capacity to safely practice the movements.

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If you take your socks off and stand on the floor with one foot and use the opposite foot, leg, hip to move the freeFORM Board around through different angles and planes of motion, you’ll see so much neuromuscular and tendon activation through that stable foot and ankle.

You can experiment with direction of movement, range of motion, speed and depending on your or your clients ability, you can also try small, fast oscillating movements or rapid changes of direction.

So now think about what it’s like when you begin to add uneven or unstable surfaces under the otherwise stable foot?

This is a great exercise for athletes that play multidirectional reactive running sports and also for hiking on uneven surfaces.

There are also many ways to make this exercise more or less challenging for anyone undertaking ankle rehab due to overuse, trauma or post surgery.

Thanks @zentrumpilatesstudio in Castle Hill, Sydney for the video.

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This is a particularly impressive demonstration by elite diver @hannah_diving under the expert tuition of @pilatesinsync

Many of the movements that the freeFORM Board was specifically designed for are out of the reach of most people so it’s inspiring to see an athlete with acrobatic type skills using many of the unique movements that the freeFORM Board supports.

There are a number of exercises performed on a docked and unlocked (low friction rotation disk) mode that require a lot of proprioception, balance and stability as well as coordination.

Then there are the exercises on the unlocked and undocked board. It’s interesting that driving is performed mostly in empty space and other sports are performed on the flat, solid and stable ground.

freeFORM provides some of the freedom of movement of open space with some of the weight bearing of a supporting surface.

Also note the circular pikes and then, follow the path the board travels in the teaser exercise where it draws a long and wide arc across the floor.

Apart from the technical aspects, it’s beautiful with watch someone moving so gracefully and what looks like effortlessly.

If you’re a Pilates instructor who wants to see how to apply your method to training athletes, follow @pilatesinsync If your an athlete looking to integrate Pilates into you practice 🤙 call and book a session.

Thanks Helen and Hannah for the inspiring and artistic demonstration.

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Some nice slow and deep mobility moves on the freeFORM Board by @studioalessiare

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A beautiful fluid sequence of Pilates inspired exercises by @bradleeon or @leeonstudiopilates

Brad starts with some roll outs to plank, tucks, single leg tucks, a lateral (what I call) a long pendulum on the frontal plane for the obliques, a supported jump through to a rear support / supine plank position finishing with a cross legged forward bend stretch.

The freeFORM Board was designed for seamless flows like these, the size, shape, wheel design and location and so many factors had to be built into the boards.

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If the freeFORM Board were a motorbike, it would look and move like this…it’s also kind of like a hovercraft that glides just above the surface.

freeFORM is about the synergy that happens when the most freely moving organsim that we know of - the human body meets the most freely moving traininf tool - the freeFORM Board.

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Single arm bilateral lateral hip cross over.

A fun and effective exercise for shoulder and core stability plus hip mobility, balance and coordination.

This progresses to a bersion were you alternate from the left to the right side and back again.

From a conference in Beijing, China

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From the Wunda Chair to the freeFORM Board in the rear supported postion with the hip and knee extension.

What do people do all day? Sit and flex so we need to spend more time strengthening the back and opening the chest, abdomen and front of the hips.

This is one of many ways you create extension through the spine and hips using thr freeFORM Board.

Special thanks to Brad Leeon, the owner and founder of Leeon Studio Pilates who was the first to see the potential of integrating the freeFORM Board into Pilates repertoire.

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A push up with a hip swing on the Power Plate. The push up loads the chest, triceps and anterior deltoid. The hips swing stretches the back and hips and the Power Plate rhythmic vibration activates a spinal reflex that increases muscle activation, bone density, circulation and recovery.

From a workshop delivered to trainers at Virgin Active in Bangkok Thailand.

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What’s in your training toolbox? In this video, Vanessa of VDS Pilates deomstrates exercises with the freeFORM Board in different modalities such as docked and locked, docked and unlocked and unlocked and undocked.

She also uses the freeFORM Velcro secured ankle bands and different sized dumbbells.

Whether its a gym, Pilates studio, phsyiotheroay practice or sports conditoning faciltiy, its important to thing how you can use multiple products from your toolbox in a way that they complement each other to provode maximum benefit to you clients.

These integrations can occur wirh smaller accessories or larger peices of exercise hardware.

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There was so much good content in this video that I cut it in half to focus on the upper limb and torso mobility.

There is son really nice thoracic extension and rotation as well as lateral flexion.

In terms of the muscles, it’s an excellent stretch for the lats, quadratus lumborum, posterior deltoid, rhomboids and middle traps.

This sequence is a great antidote to sitting for to long, for too much screen time and generally for a stiff lower and upper back and shoulders.

Thanks @pilatesinsync once again for the video 🙏

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Love these video montages because they showcase so many exercises and variations. In this case integrating the freeFORM Board both docked and undocked with the Pilates Wunda Chair and the Pilates Reformer.

I love to see the freeFORM Board used in the context of a toolbox of both small and large equipment or apparatus.

My spine feels better just seeing that side bend on the chair with the hip extension on the board…

Too many effective and creative moves@to unpack but this video does a great job of showcasing product integrations and product versatility.

I describe the freeFORM Board as “infinity in every direction” and this is like infinity multiplied which makes no sense mathematically but can potentially broaden our minds conceptually.

🙏 thanks Helen for your creative works of art.

Please follow @pilatesinsync who demonstrates this type of creativity across all apparatus.

Also great to see the boys practicing Pilates and showing how challenging it can be.

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HR MAX metabolic cardio workout. This module is focused on frontal plane movements ans we have others focused on the sagittal and transverse planes.

There are many other cardio focused freeFORM exercises and then there are all of the other devices largr and small that you cna use to get the heart beating fast. From a workshop delivered to trainers in Guangzhou China

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Drill baby drill meaning practice practice practice the step by step exercise delivery template …over and over, again and again until you acheive “unconscious competence” as if you could do it in your sleep.

Instructor in Seoul, South Korea delivering the steps and progressions of the speed skater exercise.

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Conferences. When the delegates are in session, the sales and presentation staff are playing on the frreFORM Boards.

This is a felt floor and if it were a hard, smooth floor, those boards would keep on rolling.

The point is that apart from structured workouts, the freeFORM Board is an endless journey of FUN and discovery that never ends.

From a conference in Beijing, China.

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Side rollout vs side reverse roll out. Of course this loads the obliques but if you’re familiar with the concept of myofascial line, you’ll note that the lateral hip and upper leg muscles plus the upper back and shoulder muscles are also under a largely eccentric load.

There are ways to increase and decrease the load to make the exercise more accessible or more challenging.

This exercise features in the freeFORM Board Core Matrix and Oblique Superset as well as the Upper Body Mateix and Metabolic Back Burn workouts as it loads thr lats and pecs in their roles as shoulder adductors.

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