Hydro-Pilates pool class burns the core and keeps you cool
Ellen Kempler had recent knee surgery but is scissor kicking, doing jumping jacks, working her core with elastic bands and doing leg lifts like a Pilates pro. The 68-year-old exercise enthusiast credits Ann Anthony’s Hydro-Pilates class at the Biltmore Fitness Center’s pool for her post-surgery spring and pep. “I have so much more range of motion and recovered so much faster,” she says read more…
A deliberate struggle in the water: ‘Aqua Kinetics’ is like swimming, only harder
It’s so easy, once you start exercising regularly, to begin thinking you’re invincible, that you can do anything.
Then something like Hydro-Pilates, a gentle but deceptively tricky form of movement performed in the water, comes along and knocks you down a peg.
That, at least, is what happened to me last month, when I visited…
read more…
Original Article Link: https://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/2010/11/enjoy_pilates_try_the_watered-.html
Hydro-Pilates in Europe
Raul Mas (www.watertherapy.org.es) from the CanaryIslands, is the 
first person in Europe to be certified in Hydro-Pilates.
Hydro-Pilates Certification in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ann Anthony, creator of Hydro-Pilates, recently trained 25 instructors at Espaço Stella Torreão in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
The certification took place August 25-27, 2006. The training also received much media attention and was covered by various Brazilian media outlets.
