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The Tamara Di Tella Method: History and Origins
November 4, 2008
Pilates’ routines and movements were held at the Tamara Di Tella Pilates Room in the Hospital of the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires. To assist patients perform their exercises, each patient faced a monitor who was performing the exercises, and in so doing they formed partner routines. In addition a rhythmical tune -- Tango -- was added, so as to help patients move. Step by step, these new regimen formulated for two people (an instructor and a patient), and accompanied by music, became a new method, one which was more versatile and innovative; one that contributed an aerobic element; one that motivated patients to move to the tune of music with their Pilates instructors. Tango Pilates or Tangolates was thus born.
Today, the Tamara Di Tella Method has become a popular technique in Dance Academies, or Institutes of Dance or Tango. It has also been adopted by Pilates Instructors and Studios. It is excellent for teachers because it helps them teach dance classes in general. With The T-DITELLA®Apparatus monitors teach students perform their first steps.
Being a partner workout, The Tamara DI Tella Method, Tangolates, also provides for 1) better coordination; 2) more strength; and 3) improved stretching.
1) Coordination: The Tamara Di Tella Method requires more coordination as one exerciser has to coordinate not only his own movements but those of the person working in front of him or her.
2) Strength: Again, there is a general consensus on that two people working together can exert more strength than one. Tango Pilates provides for that too.
3) Stretching: Finally, it is also argued that one person by himself/herself can stretch only so far, while the partner working by his/her side may help his/her partner stretch a bit farther. This is called “assisted stretching”.
4) Music: Finally, the question is: does anybody know of a better motivator of movement than music? The T-DITELLA Tangolates® Apparatus is ideal in its efficient capacity to teach students to learn the basic principles; practice the posture, and take the first steps, before they start. For shy students, (they all are in the beginning), the T-DITELLA® Apparatus is ideal to get rid of the inhibitions of the beginner. Plus, the students can practice with the help of the apparatus first. In this sense, it is ideal for both students and teachers, who benefit from this efficient tool that helps them teach.
For Dance Academies, or Institutes of Dance, ballet or Tango; also for PilatesStudios and for dance classes in general, it is highly recommended.
The Tamara Di Tella School of Training
Fitness Work for Seniors
September 23, 2008
FitnessWorkout for Seniors consists of an innovative, easy to do way to train adults who have bone and joint degeneration or limitations, as well as dysfunctions of the motor system, such as Parkinson, for example.. The Course reviews not only Parkinson, but also osteoporosis and osteoarthritis and is based on research involving some aerobic and resistance training. The Course also explains how to reduce load excessive efforts, increase strength, mobility and bone density. Exercises include: abdominal strengthener; arm puller, posture toner, upper-back strengthener, inner-thigh toner, hamstring stretching and strengthener, outer-thigh strengthener and quadriceps stretching and strengthener. Teaching also includes cues on how to integrate strength and flexibility into innovative workout routines.
The Tamara Di Tella School of Training
September 22, 2008
The Tamara Di Tella Schools of Training present a complete and comprehensive overview of a medicine-oriented training program that incorporates exercises and drills that can be performed individually or with a partner and are suitable for both group classes and VIP or one-to-one classes.
The Course is held at a hospital and features a hands-on training session with patients that demonstrate body alignment, movement pattern, exercise progression and cuing techniques for each exercise. The Course starts with an Introduction and Overview and then moves into the exercise routines, which include a warm-up, various sequences, partner sequences, and core work.
Tamara Di Tella
Program of
Pilates Certification
September 5, 2008
The Tamara Di Tella Pilates Program of Pilates Certification presents an overview of a practical, hands-on practice with hospital patients. This extraordinary experience is both innovative and scientific. The strength exercises designed to improve balance, core stability and muscle conditioning, applied to hospital patients are an invaluable know how in rehabilitation techniques. The Tamara Di Tella Pilates cutting-edge fitness exercise programming involves an inventive repertoire of new exercises all tested and approved by the medical community. Some of the exercises covered include: V-sits, back-on-the-floor, side-flexion work. Based on the concept that balance is developed from the inside out, the Tamara Di Tella Pilates Teaching Program trains the core for improved overall balance. It includes conventional and unconventional movements for strength training. One of the unique features of the Tamara Di Tella Pilates Course is that moves enhance muscular tone, improve balance and increase core conditioning.
The Tamara Di Tella Pilates
Program; Training and Stability
September 4, 2008
TAMARA DI TELLA Pilates core training is an insightful and complete overview of core integrity and how to develop it in a variety of positions, with the Pilates equipment. The Tamara Di Tella Pilates Program excels in explanations and demonstrations of several exercise options using core integrity. The objective is to achieve balance, shoulder stability, resistance and full-body movements. The Tamara Di Tella Pilates Courses also teach future instructors to effectively employ progressions in training the core. It includes medicine-ball exercises, stability-ball exercises, and a circuit workout routine.
The Tamara Di Tella Schools
of Pilates Training
September 3, 2008
The Tamara Di Tella Schools of Pilates Training feature a workshop that focuses on the key factors involved in successful Pilates Reformer work instruction. In a step-by-step manner that is easy to understand and apply, the program effectively cues the Tamara Di Tella Pilates reformer work explaining how and when to modify or progress a Pilates exercise. Exercises include basic, intermediate ad advanced routines, as well as standing footwork, 100s, , single-leg kick, seating twist, popping hips and side-lying legs. All this makes of the Tamara Di Tella School of Training the first choice among Pilates instructors-to-be.
The Effectiveness of the Tamara Di Tella Pilates Method
in Programs for Older Adults
September 2, 2008
The Tamara Di Tella Method has been tested with older adult populations focusing on a diversity of older-adult needs and requirements. In working with patiens with severe dysfunctions of the motor system, the Tamara Di Tella Pilates Method identifying key strategies to make fitness programming more effective for this unique group. The Tamara Di Tella Pilates Method is designed to meet the diverse physical, social and emotional needs of the majority of sedentary older adults. It takes an individualized approach, meets social and emotional needs, creates an appropriate environment, sustains efficient a reliable system of exercises and protects the spine at all times, making the method a safe and effective one.
Reformer Reformation?
Pilates turns into Tangolates!
August 29, 2008
Teaching a fun class can be lots of fun, and if it is a challenge, so much the better. Traditional flowing Pilates workout routine on the reformer has turned into Tamara Di Tella® Pilates and Tangolates® workout routines on the T-DTELLA®, plus the extra bonus of an irresistibly attractive music!!
To create a traditional Pilates reformer class that moves from one low-impact exercise to a more dynamic, aerobic or cardio workout partner exercises with music, results in an efficient, choreographed workout routine that adds an extra bonus to the classic core control method. Everybody agrees in that the addition of music does enhance the Pilates class. Exercises include the T-DITELLA® Apparatus on which it is possible to perform over a thousand moves of cardio oriented Pilates routines. It works, in an integrated manner, pelvic-strength, arms, legs, gluts, hips, waist, posture and flexibility and stretching. The cool-down routines with assisted stretching are the best!!
The T-DITELLA Apparatus allows for more than a thousand movements in over 50 total-body “core” partner and highly coordinated exercises performed in the standing, sitting and lying positions and designed to enhance balance, coordination, toning, muscle control and posture. Now you can optimize workout routines with a simple, yet challenging, functional Apparatus --the T-DITELLA®-- on which you can perform exercises that focus on proper technique, execution and form.
The session starts with a warm-up s proper with music and coordinating choreographies for two which can become more and more challenging until clients have the impression that they are actually dancing away a Tamara Di Tella® Pilates Tangolates® workout class!.
The Tamara Di Tella Schools of Training present a complete and comprehensive overview of a medicine-oriented training program that incorporates exercises and drills that can be performed individually or with a partner and are suitable for both group classes and VIP or one-to-one classes. 
The Tamara Di Tella Method has been tested with older adult populations focusing on a diversity of older-adult needs and requirements. In working with patiens with severe dysfunctions of the motor system, the Tamara Di Tella Pilates Method identifying key strategies to make fitness programming more effective for this unique group. The Tamara Di Tella Pilates Method is designed to meet the diverse physical, social and emotional needs of the majority of sedentary older adults. It takes an individualized approach, meets social and emotional needs, creates an appropriate environment, sustains efficient a reliable system of exercises and protects the spine at all times, making the method a safe and effective one.
Teaching a fun class can be lots of fun, and if it is a challenge, so much the better. Traditional flowing Pilates workout routine on the reformer has turned into Tamara Di Tella® Pilates and Tangolates® workout routines on the T-DTELLA®, plus the extra bonus of an irresistibly attractive music!!
The T-DITELLA Apparatus allows for more than a thousand movements in over 50 total-body “core” partner and highly coordinated exercises performed in the standing, sitting and lying positions and designed to enhance balance, coordination, toning, muscle control and posture. Now you can optimize workout routines with a simple, yet challenging, functional Apparatus --the T-DITELLA®-- on which you can perform exercises that focus on proper technique, execution and form.
