I have been doing ballet for 3 years and somehow I managed to hurt my back so badly I could hardly walk. My flexibility was completely gone and although I consider myself to have good body awareness I was completely lost with the fixing of my problem. I had an audition coming up and not only I needed to be ok, I wanted to be on top form.
During first session with Jaro and we spent some time doing some massage and some other practices to help increase my body awareness.
Next time I was in the gym he showed me some Pilates exercises specifically to strengthen different layers of my abdominal muscles. He also pointed out that I was in a bad habit of using my body in an inefficient way and this is how I got the back injury, basically overworked my back and I needed to strengthen the abdominal muscles in the correct way to help relieve the muscles in my back. This made me think a lot and it made a lot of sense.
I was very much looking forward to every session I had with him, he made it very comfortable, and his attention to detail was astonishing. He showed me a better/more efficient way to think about and carry out movement and helped me relax muscle tension in areas I didn’t even know I was holding it.
By the time of the audition I was much much stronger and gained my confidence back. The Pilates exercises also helped me a lot with my warm up routine and I turned up to the audition ready.
I only wish I had started working with Jaro sooner. He is a fantastic and passionate trainer and I would recommend choosing him with no hesitation.
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