Assisted Stretching and Pilates
Our assisted stretching and pilates program is designed to help improve your flexibility, mobility, and range of motion. It can help you improve these areas faster and more efficiently than you could achieve alone.
Our expert trainers work with you to create a customised stretching routine tailored to your specific needs and goals. Whether you're an athlete looking to enhance your performance, someone recovering from an injury, or simply seeking to improve your overall fitness, our Assisted Stretching program can help.
In an Assisted Stretching and Pilates session we will draw upon the most effective stretching and fascia release techniques to achieve better flexibility and quality of movement fast. Our one-on-one sessions provide personalized attention and guidance, ensuring that you get the most out of every stretch. Contact us today to learn more and experience the benefits of Assisted Stretching for yourself!
We will guide you through a progression of stretches to improve all-round flexibility and mobility. Though you’ll see whole-body benefits, we place specific focus on the problem areas and muscle groups most adversely affected by the muscular imbalances and postural challenges of our 21st century living.
The differences between assisted stretching Pilates with normal stretch
Effective regular stretching is just as important as regular exercise, and is an essential part of any sustainable health and fitness programme. Stretching keeps muscles strong, supple and healthy - giving you the flexibility and range of motion to support the activity of your joints and muscles without risk of pain or injury. If flexibility and range of motion is limited - all too often the case in our sedentary, deskbound lifestyles - we not only risk damage, but are prevented from being able to move our bodies to the best of their ability.
However, not all forms of stretching are made equal. Stretching is all too often done incorrectly, becoming counterproductive and even causing injury. There is also no such thing as a one-size fits all stretching programme, technique or routine. Different methods suit different goals, conditions, and bodies.
We will use the most effective types of stretching, such as PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation), that address your body’s unique needs - freeing you from any stiffness and pain that may be restricting your movement and preventing you from fully enjoying your physical and daily activities.
What to expect in a Pilates & Assisted Stretching session?
The focus here is on practicing full, safe, normal movement to improve and increase your range of motion around many of the joints of the body. Expect steady and controlled positions and movements, carefully aligning the body to produce isolated stretches to specific muscles.
Less intense than our standard Pilates classes, you will explore how it feels to stretch, allowing the body to absorb the feeling of being freer, and improving your flexibility and ultimately your posture as a result.
Is it right for me?
No specific level of fitness or experience is required. So if you are learning to move again after an injury, lack flexibility around the major joints – knees, hips and shoulders – or are just looking for a safe, expert and intensely effective stretch class, this is for you.
Enhancing Sports Performance
An effective, bespoke stretching programme is essential for a whole range of athletic and sporting activities, especially those requiring a wide range of motion such as Martial Arts, athletics, figure skating, skiing, yoga and dance. More flexibility means better performance through both an improved range of motion and also better functional efficiency in those ranges of motion, as a flexible joint requires less energy and is less likely to become injured.
Easing Stiffness, Aches and -Workout Pains
Stretching can help lessen the shortening and tightening effect that can often be the cause of stiffness and the aches that come with it. Integrating a regular, effective stretching programme can also help with that post-workout feeling too.
The Antidote To A Desk Job
21st century life is the perfect recipe for creating short, tight muscles. Sitting in a chair in front of a computer all day means tight chest muscles and shortened hamstrings - and plenty of uncomfortable stiffness. Most of us are time-poor, spending 35+ hours a week at our desks. So it’s even more important that we use not just the most effective but also the most time-efficient stretching techniques to undo the damage of our sedentary lifestyles.
Stretching Techniques and Therapies
I use a number of different Sports Massage techniques (or modalities), some of the most common include:
Assisted (Passive) Stretching
Active Release Technique (ART) is a soft tissue method which involves stretching a muscle while applying pressure or massage to that muscles. This active and deep technique can be quite intense, but is highly effective and gaining mobility.
Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) stretching
(PNF) stretching also known as contract release stretching, involves activating, or tensing the muscles being stretched. Once this muscle is relaxed, I will take the stretch further, before repeating the process. This stretching method has a positive impact on the “muscle spindles” ( the sensory receptor within the muscles), essentially tricking the spindle reflex to help you gain more flexibility.
Active Release Technique (ART)
ART is a soft tissue method which involves stretching a muscle while applying pressure or massage to that muscles. This active and deep technique can be quite intense, but is highly effective in gaining mobility.
Result & Benefit
There is a lot of misinformation about the benefits of stretching. For us at Trang Fitness, the results and benefits of stretching are very simple. By keeping muscles strong, supple and healthy you’ll improve performance in your chosen sports or activities, you’ll recover faster from exercise, and you’ll reduce the postural and musculoskeletal impact of today’s sedentary and deskbound lifestyles.