PILATES FOR PICKLEBALL IN BELLINGHAM WA

Lessons are taught by me - Nicole Sheldrake - certified Pilates instructor and studio owner, and lover of pickleball! Click here for more about me!

How can Pilates lessons improve my pickleball skills?

To play the best pickleball you can and avoid injury, you can train in the following 4 areas:

1. Resistance Training: To put more power and speed into serves and shots.

2. Quickness/Agility Training: To move quickly around the court.

3. Endurance Training: To increase performance by avoiding fatigue during matches.

4. Hand-Eye Coordination: For tracking the ball and peripheral awareness.

Pilates is an exercise method that’s adaptable for pretty much any body, in any condition.

Pilates exercises focus on:

• building joint and muscular strength

• improving flexibility, particularly of the spine

• better balance and proprioception

• improving the capacity of your lungs

• increasing joint mobility

• functional and FUN movement

In Pilates for pickleball, we focus on improving your:

1. Spine and hip rotation and stability for more powerful shots and serves.

2. Ankle and foot strength and mobility for better balance and quicker footwork.

3. Visual exercises for tracking the ball and peripheral awareness for anticipating where shots will go.

4. Shoulder and wrist strength and mobility for returning dinks, lobs, volleys, serves, and drop shots.

5. Leg mobility and strength for getting down to those low shots and most importantly back up again.

6. Overall strength and flexibility to avoid injuries.

Pilates Studio Equipment

In the Bellingham studio, we use the following Balanced Body large Pilates equipment plus various props:

• Reformer with Tower (weight capacity 350lbs)

• Chair (weight capacity 300lbs)

• Small Arc Barrel

• Magic Circle

• Balls of all sizes and firmness

• Resistance bands

• Foam rollers

Click here to see the Bellingham studio!