THE TAMARA DI TELLA METHOD ® (Tangolates - Tango Pilates)

MESSAGES TO TAMARA
One more thing…

Hi, great to come back to you. I wanted to ask for a forum so that we can all share. Listen, I wanted to add that the Tamara Di Tella Pilates combines with Tango Pilates so well that I think they were born for each other. Now I understand the true meaning of the word soul-mates for the two are perfect for each other. I wonder if we could ask Tamara could comment on this and tell us how did it occur to her, because it is absolutely amazing. O.K., this is what I wanted to add today

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Tango Pilates shares Principles with Pilates

Hello, I wanted to comment something on my Pilates Class. First of all, let me tell you that I am new at it; second, let me tell you that Pilates is a passion for me; and third, let me assure you, from the bottom of my heart that Tango Pilates changed my life!. I am into core control, concentration and posture. I really believe that these are very important concepts that Joseph Pilates has contributed to the fitness world. Well, Now I can tell you that when I think if these fundamental concepts I associate them with Tango. I was enquiring and found out that Tango shares with Pilates not only these basic concepts or principles, but much more: it shares the flowing movement, the strengthening of the pelvic floor; the mind-over-body cueing, and the tall and elegant posture.  In fact, I now think that Pilates and Tango are one and the same thing, for they share the very same principles. This was a surprise to me and I just wanted to share with you today. Thank you.

MESSAGES TO TAMARA
Tango Pilates workout

Hello everybody and greetings from the best Pilates Studio in the world. Yes. We are talking about the Tamara Di Tella Pilates Studio. My friends and I were old clients of this Studio and when the instructor told us about Tangolates we thought is was great and wanted to try. Little did we know that, what appeared to be just fun and only fun, would turn out to be a fantastic, most demanding type of Pilates exercises. The first class I  almost died! When I asked, I was told that I had just done Julio Bocca’s exercises, I mean the same exercises he performed. I could not believe it! That’s why I was so exhausted! But, gradually, I got used to them and now, I still feel the workout, but it is not as strenuous as it was in the beginning. All in all, I am very happy because I feel that I am now working hard!

MESSAGES TO TAMARA
I partnered with my daughter!

This is a message to Tamara Di Tella and I hope she gets it. I just wanted to let her know that I find her Tango Pilates Method a great innovation and a superb form of Pilates exercises. I though I had seen it all, and I was convinced that Pilates was it, a mean after it, nothing coud be better. I was so in loved with Pilates, that when I heard about the new Method I was reluctant to try. What could be better?, I thought.  Now, I see that Pilates is great but that Tangolates or Tango Pilates or whatever really one ups it. The cardio addition makes it more flowing and more complete; and the partner style is really amusing. I now convinced my daughther to come to the Studio with me and for partner Tangolates classes. She loves it too! Now, I not only have my Pilates, but also have a great time to share with my daughter. Thank you, Tamara, you are a genious!!

MESSAGES TO TAMARA
I can do it!

Hello, everybody! My name is Rita and I am 53 years old. I write to tell you that you guys restore my confidence again! I had just given up altogether the capacity or will to go to a gym. I was putting on weight like nobody’s business and felt pretty miserable about it. Until, one day, I discovered Tamara Di Tella Tangolates. I thought it was a special kind of Pilates, so I did not want to go, but finally, after a few months, I decided to give it a try and made an appointment for a trial class. To my surprise, I mean, to my big surprise, I loved it. Not only that, but I was very good at it. Apparently I discovered that I coordinate well and that the core concentration of Tangolates comes natural to me. Hey…what do you know! Now, some 30 pound thinner, I never miss a class. I do a bit of classic Pilates first and then jump into de Tango Pilates routines. I just wanted to share with you, my new happy and slimmer self!

Rita, G.

MESSAGES TO TAMARA
Greeting from Greece!

Tamara, I had a fiend who just came back from Buenos Aires!. She told me that she went to your Studio there and asked for the Tangolates class. T her surprise, they told her that there were very few classes available because most clients in Buenos Aires do classical Pilates. Amazing…Here, we all prefer Tangolates over Pilates.   Are argentine women are so different from European women?

MESSAGES TO TAMARA

Hello, Tamara, my name is Myriam.  I wanted to tell you how happy I am with your Tangolates class. Actually, we call it the Tamara class, because it is shorter and easier to pronounce. Anyway, we (all of us in the class) love it! It feels like a harder and more challenging Pilates, for the things we do are the same, but the rhythm is more demanding. You have to follow the step not to lose the choreography and that keep us on our toes!. We are about 12 in our class and we are all happy with it!! Thank you.

Hello, Tamara. I am Carolina and I attend Tangolates classes at your Recoleta’s Studio. I wanted to tell you that I like it, above all, because it is so much fun! You see… I really liked Pilates, but, alas, I must admit I was a bit bored: always the same! Always the same!

With Tangolates, on the other hand, we have much more variation more rhythm, a more dynamic class and, well…you know…he music!

At TAMARA DI TELLA TANGOLATES (Tango Pilates) personal training studio in Texas, United States, the Studio offers its clients a flexible arrangement as far as purchasing sessions. “Clients obtain contracts of four, eight or 12 sessions (with a pre-agreed expiration date),” she says. “Each time they have a session, we sign off a session. And this is done even on a monthly basis. We have a Free Pass, and, yet, a pre-arranged expiration date is necessary to guarantee an excellent attention to both parts, instructors and clients. The same applies to group classes (groups of friends who come to take Tangolates classes together. Workout Structures
How do trainers arrange exercises for a partner training session? Here are some protocols that are commonly utilized.

Supersets. In partner training, it is advisable to alternate cardio intervals and strength sets. Also it is possible to mix in some flexibility, for variation sake.

    * Two clients are on a cardio T-DITELLA Apparatus routine; while two others are on choreographies, and then the pairs switch places. This way it is more entertaining and less monotonous class.

    * Partners perform three to four exercises that form choreographies (depending how many are in the group), and then switch to stretching on mat. Then, they alternate again. This is another way to break the monotony of a class.

* Partner Exercises. Sometimes, when partner training will get the two clients to work together, perhaps using each other's body weight. This is an advanced type of exercise for clients who are well versed.  ( next coming “colgadas”). “Otherwise,” you can have one couple do an active recovery or some mobility work on their own while the other couple is performing a strength exercise.”

* Same Exercises at the Same Time but with a different order. Clients can also perform exactly the same exercises at the same time, as in a toning class, but change the order: first goes number one; next number two, and then number three; while, the other couple starts off with exercise number three, then goes to number one, and finally to number two.

IMPORTANT: There are many variations and options to keep to your Tangolates class varied and surprise your clients each time!

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23TH, 2008

Client Partnerships
Owners and trainers are trying to establish client partnerships in order to fit the clientele in a reduced space facility.   Creating Small Groups, Depending on need. If clients want to take a Tamara Di Tella Tangolates class but can’t do it when it is offered, they can ask for it to be repeated at a better time. “If a client knows another person, perhaps a sister or a friend or her mother, they register for a class together” Tamara’s manager says. “If not, we will advertise the program to the other members in order to get another person to sign up.”

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Tamara Di Tella Tango Pilates Classes
Let’s think back. Traditional pilates classes usually involved: a) one-to-one (individual or super VIP clases); or b) small-group classes of three to six clients with one instructor; or c) large classes of 6 or more clients, sometimes up ten or even or twelve, but these classes were reserved for mat, never reformer.

Partner classes now constitute a viable business model and revenue stream. While the logistics are the same as individual classes, business owners, trainers and clients alike are reaping rewards from partner and group training.
While in Tamara Di Tella method (Tangolates or Tango Pilates), classes are naturally and obviously for two clients (it takes two to Tangolates!).

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The Effectiveness of the Tamara Di Tella Pilates Method
in Programs for Older Adults

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.

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New Press Release
T-DITELLA ® APPARATUS

Tamara Di Tella Pilates & Tangolates (Tango Pilates) on the functional T-DITELLA Apparatus explores the benefits and philosophy of traditional Pilates in a modern-day cardio and music oriented class environment.  The practice of Tangolates the T-DITELLA Apparatus emphasizes the need to adhere to proper body and mind exercise at an ever-higher level of core control and concentration routines, Joseph Pilates would have been proud of!. Besides the introduction of the Apparatus, the incorporation of Tango music makes all the difference in the world because silent routines are excellent but the addition of music and cardio makes it all the more intense and gratifying cardio experience.

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