How to start Pilates with guest Master Trainer Lencola Green

How to start Pilates with guest Master Trainer Lencola Green

Author: Fitblack Queens December 5, 2020 Duration: 36:23
In this week’s episode, the Queens interview Master Pilates Trainer Lencola Green.  Lencola Green has been a Pilates Instructor for over 20 years.  Lencola feels that everyone can benefit from Pilates with her combination of Pilates exercises, therapeutic techniques, and integrated modalities. She focuses on postpartum recovery by giving a thorough assessment of postural deviations, physical abilities, and personal traits/habits that may be affecting goal achievement. Lencola also emphasizes core training before core strengthening so that her clients are recruiting muscles efficiently. Pilates found Lencola in 2002 and shortly after started a teacher-training program at Push Pilates. The program required over 900 hours of Pilates training on the Reformer, Cadillac, Ladder Barrel, Spine Corrector, Tower, Chair, Mat, Props, and Post-Rehabilitation/Special Needs Population.13:01 Lencola Green (4:10) Finding Pilates (5:08) Difference between Pilates and Yoga (7:01) Pilates Equipment (9:16) Reformer (9:17) Chair and Barrel (13:01) Pilates Rings (15:44) Meghan Markel does Pilates (17:10) What to look for in a Pilates class? (18:10) Being Black in Pilates (19:10) 800 Black Pilates Instructors (19:40) Being a Pilates Mentor (28:00) Teacher Training Program for Black People (29:00) Black to Pilates Launch (29:49) You can connect with Lencola. Join her Black to Pilates Program at www.Capilates.com https://www.facebook.com/lencola https://www.instagram.com/californiapilates/

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