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Pilates relieves stress and pain

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Published: May 16, 2009

Name: Maria Ivanova
Age: 33

Location: Euro Pilates, New Tampa

Fitness specialty: Pilates
Best activity in your workouts: All of the exercises and machines used in Pilates are designed to achieve proper body alignment and relieve stress and pain. We tone and strengthen muscles with a cardiovascular program aimed at improving posture and promoting weight loss.

What's your favorite phrase to bark when motivating a client: "Don't think you can't. Think you can!"

Favorite everyday activity that helps tone/burn calories: Always have your head up, shoulders back and abs in. It strengthens your core. Eventually, this correct posture becomes your natural position.

Junk food you find hardest to avoid: Sweets. I never bring them into the house, so I never have to avoid them!

Want to share the 411 on a specific workout being offered locally? Contact Mary Shedden at (813) 259-7365 or mshedden@tampatrib.com.

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