Pilates Diploma Course

This comprehensive Pilates Diploma Course will teach you everything that you need to know about Pilates, the benefits for yourself and how to carry out the exercises, and how to set yourself up as a Pilates business teaching others.

The Benefits of Pilates

Pilates is known throughout the world as an exercise method that greatly enhances the health and quality of life in those who practice and teach regularly. It has proven itself to be invaluable not only as a form of general fitness but as an important support to professional sports training and physical rehabilitation.

Practiced regularly, the benefits of Pilates are numerous – strength, flexibility, better breathing capacity, improved posture and overall increased body awareness and health – all of which can translate into and transform an individual’s life.

This Pilates Diploma Course, which concentrates on Pilates’ mat exercises, is specifically designed for those who put health and fitness front-and-center in their lives, and want to learn this incredible method with the possibility of then teaching it to others.

What You Will Learn

It provides a concentrated approach to the specific mat exercises developed by Joseph Pilates over 70 years ago. In the comfort of your own home you will be introduced to Pilates and its very special benefits. By following the step-by-step instruction on the foundation, science and application of more than 40 Pilates mat exercises, you will not only learn how to perform the fundamental Pilates movements but be provided with enough knowledge to establish yourself as a Pilates instructor.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Pilates Diploma Course will take you up to 150 hours to complete working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace. The course comes with a course assessment in the form of quizzes, written questions and short essays, once you have completed your course assessment please email or post it back to us for marking, you will then receive your feedback and certificates.

Course SyllabusModule 1: An Introduction to Pilates

• Pilates history and evolution
• The specific benefits of Pilates
• The fundamentals principles underlying the exercise method
• Pilates Eight Principles

Module 2: The Pilates Powerhouse and the Anatomy of Movement

• The Pilates powerhouse
• The importance of good posture
• Basic anatomy and principles of alignment
• Breathing in Pilates

Module 3: The Pilates Class: Exercise and Equipment

• Basic movements and warm-ups
• The original 34 Joseph Pilates’ exercises
• 10 most popular Pilates movements
• Pilates equipment

Module 4: Specific Pilates Classes

• Pilates for pregnancy
• Pilates for weight loss
• Pilates for the older adult

Module 5: Teaching Pilates

• Your role as a Pilates teacher
• Teaching Pilates movements
• Structuring a class
• Understanding risk of injury
• Sample class

Module 6: Setting Up Your Own Pilates Business

• Business structure
• Writing a business plan
• Setting up a studio
• Pricing
• Marketing

Currently there are no Q&As for this course. Be the first to ask a question.

Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included