The wooden Pilates chair, also known as the stable chair, universal chair, or Wunda chair in the industry, is the smallest piece in the Pilates equipment family. It doesn’t look like fitness equipment, but rather like a small stool with a wooden frame: a soft cushion seat on top, a solid wood frame on the bottom, a spring-loaded pedal in front, and two optional armrests next to it.
Its origin is somewhat interesting. In the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Pilates designed this thing for bedridden patients in a small apartment in New York – it could be used as a regular chair when not in use and could “press” the entire body into it while practicing. So it was born for small spaces and low threshold rehabilitation, and still only occupies about 0.35 square meters, saving more than 60% of space compared to core beds.
What does it rely on for training. The core mechanism has only one sentence: use the resistance of the spring to resist your pushing, stepping, pressing, and supporting. Stepping down on the pedal is pushing, while controlling upwards is retracting. When sitting, standing, kneeling, lying prone, or lying on the side of a chair, the body finds balance in the unstable spring force. The higher the spring hanging point, the greater the resistance, and a chair can be adjusted from a beginner to an athlete.
What exactly does it practice, specifically four things:
-Core anti stretching ability – bending and lifting hips while sitting, pushing and supporting pedals, and working with the abdomen always in a “pulled apart” state, which is its most iconic ability;
-Lower limb closed chain strength – stepping on the pedal and stretching, like squatting but with less joint force, knee friendly;
-Unilateral control and balance – the split pedal can be independently stepped on left and right, specializing in treating uneven strength between the left and right legs and pelvic asymmetry;
-Body posture and rehabilitation – standing posture recommendation and swan like stretching on the chair are very suitable for round shoulders, hunchback, and prolonged sitting with tense waist and back.
How to divide the work between the core bed and the core bed? The core bed is a “lying down exercise” that has a long journey and covers the whole body; The Pilates chair is a “standing exercise” with a shorter stroke but greater control and generally higher difficulty. The industry often says that it compresses the entire gym into one chair, referring to the characteristic of exchanging extremely small space for extremely high training density.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The wooden Pilates chair, also known as the stable chair, universal chair, or Wunda chair in the industry, is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzideaseed.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzideaseed.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzideaseed.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzideaseed.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzideaseed.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzideaseed.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/dzideaseed.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzideaseed.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzideaseed.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzideaseed.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzideaseed.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}