Pilates Core Align & Functional Fitness

 Core Align and Dynamic Alignment

The Core Align is a unique piece of equipment that consists of two independent carts and two separate tracks. It has standing platforms at each end of the frame and a ladder at one end. Its unique design offers variations and challenges for traditional training methods, including foundational and functional movement patterns. 

Through resistance provided by elastic bands to each cart, the users can mimic everyday activities of daily living, such as walking, squatting, lunging, hinging, pushing, pulling, and rotating. In addition to functional movement training,

The Core Align and its elastic tubing setup create a dynamic environment to explore and enhance our awareness or proprioception. 

The four primary contact points utilized on the Core Align are the feet and the hands. Our feet and hands are unique in that they are the most distal component of our peripheral nervous system. Therefore, when we can tap into the sensations through our feet and hands, we enable greater movement exploration and environmental awareness.

“Active hands and Active feet signal our fascial systems many compartments throughout the arms and legs tend to “plump” up. This plumping-up effect creates the lift needed for bony alignment and tensioning of the muscles along the chains of the fascia.

The enhanced lift and bony alignment throughout the system allows our movement patterns to find the pathway to ease, efficiency, and economy through proper muscle tensioning patterns.

Utilizing the sensation through the feet, hands, carts, and elastic resistance creates an endless environment for enhancing overall awareness and finding easeful and efficient movement patterns for improved function in daily activities of living. 

RaeLea Saxton

PTA | BS | NCPT

Balanced Body Educator