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Ann McMillan Pilates Movement Progressions BUNDLE
Get Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced at a discounted price!		 $139.00 USD Register Now $94.00 USD Forever Members enjoy early access, special pricing, and no expiration dates! If you’d like to take advantage of this special price, please add Forever Access here and then come back to this page to make your purchase. (If you have Forever Access - make sure you are logged in to make this pricing available.) NPCP CECS See Workshop Details
Ann McMillan Pilates Movement Progressions: Beginner Level $59.00 USD Register Now $39.00 USD Forever Members enjoy early access, special pricing, and no expiration dates! If you’d like to take advantage of this special price, please add Forever Access here and then come back to this page to make your purchase. (If you have Forever Access - make sure you are logged in to make this pricing available.) NPCP CECS Not offered
Ann McMillan Pilates Movement Progressions: Intermediate Level $59.00 USD Register Now $39.00 USD Forever Members enjoy early access, special pricing, and no expiration dates! If you’d like to take advantage of this special price, please add Forever Access here and then come back to this page to make your purchase. (If you have Forever Access - make sure you are logged in to make this pricing available.) NPCP CECS Not offered
Ann McMillan Pilates Movement Progressions: Advanced Level $59.00 USD Register Now $39.00 USD Forever Members enjoy early access, special pricing, and no expiration dates! If you’d like to take advantage of this special price, please add Forever Access here and then come back to this page to make your purchase. (If you have Forever Access - make sure you are logged in to make this pricing available.) NPCP CECS Not offered

NPCP CECs not offered, however your certificate of completion can but used toward many program (yearly or biennial) requirements (ie: Balanced Body, Stott, etc…) For workshops with NPCP CECs click here.

Description

Each of these three workshops offers 3 PMA CECs for a limited time. You must take and pass your quiz by the following dates:

  • Advanced - take and pass quiz by 5/21/21
  • Intermediate - take and pass quiz by 1/29/21
  • Beginner - take and pass quiz by 8/31/20

The Ann McMillan Movements Progressions are a series of craftily designed and imaginative workouts aimed at reducing the woes of the sedentary lifestyle and balancing muscle tone. These well-planned workouts leave nothing to chance as the deskbound lifestyle is confronted by a regime that systematically develops mobility in the ankles, hips, thoracic spine, and glenohumeral joints while providing stability to the feet, knees, pelvic girdle (core) and scapulothoracic joints.

 

Through precisely targeted stretches, gentle mobilizations, the accurate firing of stabilizers, the body is being prepared to put together the elements that form integrated movement. Each workout progresses from the ground up to finish with challenging standing work that incorporates balance and deep core control. This engages the wholes body’s musculature in a functional fashion.

 

The program effortlessly improves client’s movement awareness to help them develop control while providing them with a satisfying workout that will make them crave for more!

 

Ann’s ability to identify the mechanisms that constitute optimal movement outcome led her to conceive simple and efficient exercisesthat even the most coordination challenged client can learn to master while providing challenging work for advanced students

 

Let Ann’s thirty years of experience in Pilates, dance and exercise science guide you and your clients through these fun and fulfilling Ann McMillan Movement Progression workouts.

Objectives

  • Offer clients three craftily designed and imaginative beginner level reformer workouts: Introduction, Beginner A, Beginner B
  • Offer clients two global conditioning intermediate level workouts: Intermediate A, Intermediate B
  • Offer clients two challenging advanced level workouts for an athletic population: Advanced A, Advanced B
  • Offer workouts aimed at systematically reducing the negative effects of the sedentary lifestyle
  • Help clients develop mobility in the ankles, hips, thoracic spine, and glenohumeral joint
  • Help clients develop stability to the feet, knees, pelvic girdle (core) and scapulothoracic joint
  • Improves client’s movement awareness
  • Improve client’s movement control
  • Learn simple and efficient exercises even the most coordination challenged client can learn to master
  • Provide them with a satisfying and addictive workout experience
  • Engage the wholes body’s musculature in a functional fashion
  • Balance muscle tone


Concepts & Techniques


The following concepts and notions are embedded into the exercises and workout progressions:


Muscle physiology
Transfer of forces through myofascial chains 
The joint by joint approach (Mike Boyle)
The layer Syndrome: alternating areas of tightness and weakness (V. Janda) 
Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization
Equipment
Reformer, Trap table, chair
Additional Equipment
Balls, rotator disks Half roller

Props & Equipment Used

  • Balls
  • Reformer
  • Trap/Cad
  • Half roller
  • Chair (Of the 40 exercises offered, one is done on the chair.)

Workshop Level

  • Advanced
  • Beginner
  • Intermediate


Duration & Access

The Beginner workshop is  approximately 2.15 hours  long and you have 30 days of access
The Intermediate workshop is approximately 2.4 hours long and you have 30 days of access
The Advanced workshop is approximately 2.5 hours long and you have 30 days of access

(No expiration for Forever Access Members)
 

More Details

Although not designed with a specific special population in mind, the gentle beginner level Progressions are suitable for numerous special needs situations. Please keep in mind your client's condition and restrictions when choosing an exercise from the Progressions.

  • The intermediate level is great for general conditioning
  • The advanced level is challenging and best suited for a more athletic population

 

About Ann McMillan MS

Ann McMillan MS NCPT President and Founder, Instructor Trainer “In my professional opinion, Ann McMillan is at the absolute top of the field in integrated Pilates and related fitness training”... Find Out More Other Workshops by Ann McMillan MS

Feedback recevied by Ann McMillan MS

" This was my first training with Ann McMillan. She is such a wealth of knowledge! I really learned a lot of great ways to start and progress my beginners. Ive been teaching Pilates since 2006 and I learned a lot of great new cues, exercises, and release techniques. Thank you Ann and Jen. "

Angela W

" Great course! Beautiful cueing and I love the way the movements are broken down biomechanically. "

Christine B

" Love all of it ! "

Marie-Josée P

" Fabulous Workshop! I really appreciated the details in the handouts that included explanation of the exercises, springs and reps recommended. The AMP method is very easy to understand and makes sense. "

Angela H

" This was fantastic! "

Darlene K

" Excellent material creative and thought through! I have been using the program and have gotten great feedback and results from clients! Ann is amazing and one of my biggest inspirations! Thank you "

Jeannine C

" Beautiful work, well put together. Congrats Ann! "

Marie-Josée P

" I really enjoyed all three progressions! I recommend getting the entire series to see the progressions on three different bodies. Ann has a lot of experience, passion and creativity and shares it in this beginner to advanced progression series. "

Angela H

" Wonderful choreography, cues and class tempo. "

Rosanna d

" Thanks for a great course. It gave me so many good ideas for exercises and progressions. "

Lisa S

" Ann does a wonderful job in slowly explaining what is necessary to reach the goal of the exercise. Her tactile cueing along with explanation is what I will take away from this class the most. I look forward to other workshops and class by Ann. Thank you "

Susan F

" Wonderful course and so very helpful to see how logically to progress clients to more challenging levels! The information is beautifully and clearly presented and it was a joy to watch! Thank you "

Jeannine C

" Loved it! Thorough and direct. "

Cynthia W

" Great course! I like the postural focus and working into and resisting rotational components appropriately for an intermediate level "

Christine B

" Excellent Workshop! Lots of new variations and progressions I have not seen before. I did the wave series with the Tower bar today with my private client and she loved it! Thank you for your expertise! "

Angela H

   

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