Hybrid Pilates training by One of the worlds leading Pilates manufactures takes the Pilates Method into a new dimension.  Cool Beans.

CoreAlign unit was created to enable natural flowing full body exercises with independent limb training. As the first studio in the country to offer CoreAlign classes, we’re excited to offer our clients this new way to maximize your potential. Some key benefits of CoreAlign:

• Upgrade full body movement ability while focusing mainly on standing positions and movements.

• Facilitate a functional blend of posture, strength, flexibility, control, and body orientation in space.

• Reorganize and upgrade the relevant movement components to reach the deepest layers of movement foundations, and challenge the boundaries of harmonious movement.

The CoreAlign Method is used for musculoskeletal rehabilitation, performance enhancement and as regular exercise regimen for a healthy lifestyle.

The individual foot tracks can be adjusted for resistance, and working the body in a standing position, which the CoreAlign demands, trains the body to work in harmony and balance in a way that isolation exercises don’t.

“The tracks enable the body to work the way it’s supposed to work,” said Brent Dodge, a physical therapist and the owner of Alpine. “For the people who are rehabilitating, we’re training their bodies for movements that are harmonious.”

Even the simplest exercise demands total concentration, balance, posture, and perfect and fluid movement. This, a reporter found out after trying it and failing numerous times before finding his rhythm.

Don’t expect to find this equipment in stores. Because the exercises must be performed with perfect precision to be beneficial, Balanced Body Pilates is only shopping them to places that employ physical therapists schooled on the CoreAlign’s techniques.

Because the machine is so new, very little has been written about it, and it has no official endorsements. Nor are there any scientific studies on its effectiveness.

All that is coming, said Hoffman, and he welcomes even the most ardent skeptics.

“The concepts are avant garde, and this is coming from outside the establishment,” he said. “The question is: Will the establishment embrace it? We believe they will because this works.”

Reporter Jamie Kelly at 523-5254 or at jkelly@missoulian.com.