Ballet Fitness

Ballet Fitness, a fusion of Ballet and Pilates that can help flexibility, balance and core body strength.

Ballet and Pilates have a long and successful partnership, going back to the very early work of Joseph Pilates. Over the years each discipline has been greatly influenced by the other with Pilates becoming a routine component of a dancer’s training program. The concept of Ballet Fitness created by Pilates of Champions incorporates the best of the benefits that Ballet dancing provides by way of improving balance, flexibility and co-ordination with the conditioning, joint strengthening and body core alignment of Pilates. Ballet and Pilates have many common elements including the focus on conscious and correct breathing, strict control of your body movements and the requirement for deep concentration by you and your teacher on your body. We believe that you will find this fusion of physical and mental conditioning, body strengthening and control philosophies an exciting and powerful addition to the world of exercise and fitness.

Ballet fitness will help improve your balance, flexibility and strength while helping achieve that elegant elongated muscle tone typical of professional Ballet dancers. This is a very graceful way to exercise with movement to the accompaniment of ballet music. Teaching the basics of ballet is an integral part of the classes, so don’t worry if you don’t know your Port de Bras from your Ronde Jambe because your teacher, a former professional ballet dancer, will teach you precisely what you need to know and at a pace that works for you. Ballet Fitness offers something for all fitness levels; it is ideal for beginners to ballet and for more advanced students it can provide the most demanding of exercise sessions.

Are you looking to try something new to add an extra dimension to your exercise routine? Never done ballet before? Want to try but don’t want the formality of a ballet studio? Done ballet in the past and want to incorporate it into your health and fitness regime? If so, then ballet Fitness at Pilates of Champions may be just what you are looking for. Whatever your goals, please call us to find out more and how you can join our friendly group classes.