NYC Pilates Certification Programs

Since opening our doors in 2000, Pilates on Fifth has earned a reputation as one of the very best Pilates studios in Manhattan. Pilates on Fifth owners Kimberly and Katherine Corp were recently featured on the cover of Club Business International, the industry magazine of the IHRSA. The Corp sisters have earned a great deal of media attention because of their unique skills and exceptional talent. Most recently, they have set their sights on creating the best Pilates certification program in NYC: the Pilates Academy International, headquartered right here at Pilates on Fifth.

Although the Pilates Academy International is a new certification program, the Corp sisters and other certification instructors who head up the Academy have been training and certifying students for years. From 2001 to 2005, they trained students to achieve certification through the well-known STOTT PILATES® program. While Kimberly and Katherine felt that STOTT® was a good training program, they knew they could create one that was even better.

What makes Pilates Academy International superior to other Pilates certification programs? For one, we not only put great emphasis on anatomy, kinesiology, and biomechanics, but we also
teach you the skills to acquire, motivate and retain your clients. In other words, we teach you to understand Pilates from the inside out. After all, Pilates is a very subtle, "inside out" system of exercise. Long, lean muscles are created because the exercises target the deepest, most subtle muscles of the anatomy. The Pilates system is the antithesis of a crude, "barbells and bicep curls" workout.

To truly understand Pilates--and to be able to teach a truly amazing Pilates mat class or train clients on private equipment--instructors must understand it from the inside out. The Pilates Academy International works in collaboration with the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, as well as chiropractors and kinesiologists, to teach you Pilates from a medical point of view.

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