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At Q Pilates Brisbane, we encourage anyone with injuries or health issues to stick to our physiotherapist-run exercise program to ensure they are getting a program specifically tailored to their individual needs. In terms of injuries, Pilates is often a perfect way to exercise in an environment that is safe and rehabilitative.

If you have health issues affected by exercise (eg heart, lung, thyroid, epilepsy etc), we prefer if you have medical clearance before commencing a program. We will ask specific health questions in your initial assessment to help us gauge exactly where your body is functioning at the moment to ensure optimal safety while performing the exercise.

DOMS or Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness is a sign that you have worked your muscles to the point where they have been forced to form slight breaks to allow new muscle fibres to form for increased strength (aka hypertrophy). This is known as the overload principle and is an important part of improving a muscle’s ability to cope with the load demand. Most people enjoy this feeling of having worked hard to the point of being sore, however, it is not necessary if you would prefer not to be sore after class. You will still see the benefits of Pilates even if you don’t feel muscle pain the next day.

Generally DOMS will peak on the second day and unfortunately not much helps to alleviate the soreness apart from further exercising to pump out excess lactic acid. Research has found that stretching can help momentarily but doesn’t shorten the duration of the DOMS pain. We find that heat, stretching and further gentle exercise is the best thing to cure DOMS.

At Q Pilates we have age ranges between 13-80+ years old. Our physiotherapist-run exercise sessions can be tailored for all ages and abilities and is a perfect way to exercise throughout life’s different ages and stages.

We do require that all our participants are at least 13 years old as it is important for children to have enough understanding of the principles and the equipment to perform the exercises safely.

The age limit for Bodytone Pilates is 15 years old.

Pilates has been long-hailed for its ability to produce long, lean muscles without causing bulky muscles. This is because the exercises are performed at a lower resistance for a longer and slower amount of time than traditional “strength” exercises at the gym. Strength training (eg low reps, high resistance) brings about hypertrophy and bulking within the muscle fibres. Pilates also uses deep AND superficial muscle systems to achieve a more balanced musculature.

Pilates exercises are traditionally not considered cardiovascular because the body will rarely experience breathlessness during the exercises. However, with muscle loading, the circulatory and oxygen demand within the working muscles causes the body to require deeper breaths and increased breathing rate. Therefore the harder the exercise and the larger the muscles being worked, the higher the oxygen demand is. You will find that certain exercises can encourage some slight increases in breathing rate and therefore, small amounts of increased cardiovascular fitness. It is important to continue walking/ running/ swimming/ cycling etc to maintain or improve cardiovascular fitness.