Pilates Training Helps Runner

If you have a client who loves to run but is stymied by hip or pelvis problems, Pilates might help. A functionally based Pilates intervention program that focused on restoring correct lower-extremity alignment returned running ability to an experienced high-level female runner. In the case study, health professionals at the University of Connecticut School of Allied Health in Storrs, Connecticut, described how a Pilates-evolved exercise program resolved a long-term runner’s inability to run because of dysfunction of the hip, spine and pelvic stabilizers. Other traditional treatment approaches had already failed. The Pilates program focused on functional and progressive resistance exercises designed to dynamically stabilize the spine, pelvis and hip through all planes of motion. The case study was published in Current Sports Medical Reporter.

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I am so proud of you guys for taking the big step into blogging. I know I push you hard to learn this stuff, but it is nothing you would not do to me if I was in the studio getting Pilatecized.

Cheers to you, Karen and Kurt, to a wonderful 2010!

Comment by Mark Aaron Murnahan — January 8, 2010 @ 12:17 am
Hi there,

Do you know how I can obtain a copy of the case study for “pilates training helps runners” – I can’t seem to find the Current Sports Medical Reporter, 2006.

Thanks!

Comment by pilates4life — February 11, 2010 @ 12:51 am
Hi,
I too have looked for the article online on Google as well as in Amazon. It sounds like both you and I have trained long distance runners using Pilates. The article caught my attention because I’ve trained marathon runners as well as running coaches here at my studio. To support those clients, I posted that information for them to read, but it came from a blog from my fitness insurance company. I’ll look and see what I can find out!!

Comment by Karen Winselmann — February 17, 2010 @ 11:14 am
Thanks so much Karen for the response. I am a BASI student that’s doing my research paper on Pilates and Runners. I am an avid runner, and I too think it’s very important for runners to involve pilates into their regimen in order to be a more effective and healthier runner. It’s a bummer that you are in Fort Lauderale (I’m in Los Angeles) because I would love to take some of your sessions that focus on runners! Thanks again for your time. *Tara

Comment by pilates4life - Tara — February 17, 2010 @ 2:20 pm
Tara, my experience has been that because a runner has such well developed leg muscles, they tend to use those leg muscles when performing their pilates exercises – when they should instead be using their powerhouse (core). As such, I have to refocus the typical runner/client to use their core muscles and not their leg muscles…

Comment by Karen Winselmann — February 26, 2010 @ 2:21 pm

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I am so proud of you guys for taking the big step into blogging. I know I push you hard to learn this stuff, but it is nothing you would not do to me if I was in the studio getting Pilatecized.

Cheers to you, Karen and Kurt, to a wonderful 2010!

Comment by Mark Aaron Murnahan — January 8, 2010 @ 12:17 am

Hi there,

Do you know how I can obtain a copy of the case study for “pilates training helps runners” – I can’t seem to find the Current Sports Medical Reporter, 2006.

Thanks!

Comment by pilates4life — February 11, 2010 @ 12:51 am

Hi,
I too have looked for the article online on Google as well as in Amazon. It sounds like both you and I have trained long distance runners using Pilates. The article caught my attention because I’ve trained marathon runners as well as running coaches here at my studio. To support those clients, I posted that information for them to read, but it came from a blog from my fitness insurance company. I’ll look and see what I can find out!!

Comment by Karen Winselmann — February 17, 2010 @ 11:14 am

Thanks so much Karen for the response. I am a BASI student that’s doing my research paper on Pilates and Runners. I am an avid runner, and I too think it’s very important for runners to involve pilates into their regimen in order to be a more effective and healthier runner. It’s a bummer that you are in Fort Lauderale (I’m in Los Angeles) because I would love to take some of your sessions that focus on runners! Thanks again for your time. *Tara

Comment by pilates4life - Tara — February 17, 2010 @ 2:20 pm

Tara, my experience has been that because a runner has such well developed leg muscles, they tend to use those leg muscles when performing their pilates exercises – when they should instead be using their powerhouse (core). As such, I have to refocus the typical runner/client to use their core muscles and not their leg muscles…

Comment by Karen Winselmann — February 26, 2010 @ 2:21 pm

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