Strengthen Your Body with ActivCore at Pilates on Fifth

Pilates on Fifth is taking on the challenge of providing new ways to improve your body and health by adding the ActivCore FEX to their Pilates and Gyrotonic services. You will learn to improve your core strength, balance, coordination and proper muscular usage. It is through controlled instability that you will truly enhance your body's core.

Pilates on Fifth is one of the first Pilates studios in Manhattan to get this revolutionary system. The system uses ropes and slings that provide controlled instability, as they effectively and safely challenge the involuntary muscles of the body. The key to achieving optimal performance is by activating the right muscles, the right amount at the right time.

The ActivCore system is available for clients of all ages and fitness levels as your exercise can be easily modified to challenge your body. A new addition to health clubs, therapeutic centers and Olympic training facilities throughout Europe, the ActivCore system features Redcord from Norway. Combining strength, balance and coordination all types of bodies can benefit from it.

The ActivCore Redcord solutions focuses on five main principles: Controlled stability, functional exercise, pain free positioning and movements, precise control of exercise intensity and freedom of movements across all planes. The highly trained staff of professionals can identify the inactive muscles and weaknesses in your body. Once these are determined the program will aid in restoring muscle function, reducing muscle pain or discomfort, improving core stability, improving athletic performance, reducing the risk of injury and improving functional strength, balance and coordination.

The concept of FEX (Functional Exercise for everyone) is utilized in the ActivCore system at Pilates on Fifth and they encourage you to stop by to see if ActivCore is right for your workout regimen to live a healthier life.