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FAQs
Is yoopod really unlimited?
I have a question/comment about a class - who can I ask, and how?
You can ask a question or make a comment on a specific class or exercise by posting a comment at bottom of the class page. Our teachers or a member of our team will answer it as soon as possible.
You can also ask us any type of question via the ‘contact us' page and we’ll get back to you as quickly as we can.
Can I watch the videos on a TV?
There are several ways you can watch the videos on a TV. Many smart TVs will allow you to login to yoopod via their browser and watch the videos that way. If your TV doesn't you have two options:
- Connect your laptop to your TV with an HDMI or VGA cable
- Using Chrome broser you can cast yoopod from your mobile device.
How does online viewing work?
It’s really simple – you only need 2 things:
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- A yoopod subscription
- A broadband internet connection (with a speed of at least 0.5Mb per second for good performance and picture quality)
Then just browse or search for a video you like and start exercising.
What is Pilates?
Pilates is a Mind-Body method of exercise that was pioneered and developed during the last century by Joseph Hubertus Pilates. The method is a safe, low impact and highly effective way to strengthen, stretch and streamline your body.
For years, Pilates was the well-kept secret of dancers and athletes who were dedicated to balancing their bodies and optimizing their potential. Fortunately, in the last 30 years, Pilates spread across the world and, today, we can all enjoy the benefits of this method. The specialised equipment and the unique exercises are designed to help you develop optimal strength, flexibility, posture and balance without building excess bulk or stressing the joints.
Pilates is great on its own and, at the same time, is a perfect complement to and will enhance cardiovascular activities, athletic training and rehabilitative therapies such as physiotherapy, chiropractic treatment and osteopathy.
Pilates is ideal during normal healthy pregnancy to maintain strength and balance, to avoid common pregnancy problems and to prepare for delivery. It is also excellent as a post-natal exercise routine when fatigue, weakened abdominals, demands of breastfeeding and day-to-day care of a baby make it so difficult for women to regain their strength and figure.
A consistent program of Pilates exercises will reward you with a strong sense of centre and balance. Every workout will leave you feeling revitalized and moving with ease.
What are the health benefits of Pilates?
Pilates is a conditioning system for the whole body and for all systems in the body. It can help improve your lung capacity by teaching proper breathing and this in turn can improve your circulatory system. Pilates builds strength, endurance, and flexibility in the muscular system, which helps to restore balance to the skeletal system. Pilates can improve mental awareness of how you move your body and where your body is in space. Most importantly, Pilates practiced correctly will overflow from your practice into your daily life. In essence, Pilates is a lifestyle centred on the desire and need to live a healthy life.
Can Pilates help my bad posture?
Pilates is the perfect exercise method to help improve your posture! All Pilates exercises are designed to create muscular and postural balance- stretching tight areas and strengthening weak muscles. The unique concept of working from the core (or ‘Powerhouse’) results in strong and firm band around the centre of the body, which allows you to support your body weight - your posture with more ease throughout the day. Additionally, the awareness developed in Pilates classes will be carried over into your day-to-day activities, reminding you to carry yourself more upright and with less build up of tension and bad habits.
I'm not very flexible, maybe Pilates isn't for me!?
Modern day lifestyle involves sitting at desks and different means of transport for many hours a day. This unfortunately leads over time to tight muscles and decreased mobility in our joints. Pilates increases the flexibility of your muscles and connective tissues and the mobility of the joints. Your flexibility will improve over time and with regular practice, so don’t give up!
How long will I have to do the classes before I see results?
Some people notice physical changes within a few classes. Most people notice improvement of strength and flexibility within a few weeks. The real benefit though, is the combination of short term results with enduring changes to your fitness and well-being in the long run. That is what makes people “Pilates devotees” for years and decades.
One should remember that results can vary depending on each individual and factors such as general health, previous Pilates experience, other forms of physical activity; and of course the number of classes you take each week and their length.
What is Yoga?
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice which originated in India. The origins of yoga have most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. Yoga gurus from India introduced yoga to the west in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the 1980s, yoga became popular as a system of physical exercise across the Western world. Yoga in Indian traditions, however, is more than physical exercise, it has a meditative and spiritual core.
Yoga is said to be for the purpose of uniting the mind, body, and spirit. Many people think that yoga is just stretching, but while stretching is certainly involved, yoga is really about creating balance in the body through developing both strength and flexibility. This is done through the performance of poses or postures, each of which has specific physical benefits. The poses can be done quickly in succession, creating heat in the body through movement or more slowly to increase stamina and perfect the alignment of the pose. The poses are a constant, but the approach to them varies depending on the yoga tradition in which the teacher has trained.
Research concludes that yoga asana as we know it today came into being in comparatively recent history, through a combination of factors including the international physical culture movement of the 19th century. Evidence indicates that the transformation of yoga asana from a handful of seated poses to the flowing “dance” from posture to posture to which we are accustomed today has largely occurred in the past 200 years, gaining momentum in the past half-century