For a start it boosted an already successful sporting career that had begun at the tender age of nine. While Slim had already won national and international titles with his volleyball team at a semi-professional level, he freely admits that an enhanced flexibility resulting from his own Pilates regime has markedly boosted his performance.
Alongside Slim's sporting prowess, he has also been able to combine his skills as a qualified physiotherapist in Tunisia with an increased knowledge and understanding of the teaching of Pilates. This impressive skillset allows Slim to help clients with the most challenging of injury and rehabilitation cases.
While working abroad Slim kicked off his training through the UK-based Body Control Pilates Association and in particular the teachings of the organisation's co-founder Lynn Robinson. Once himself in charge of classes he soon realised - like his colleage Teejay that it was vital to use the right rehabilitation and Pilates exercises to suit a client's injuries or needs:
"My background really enables me to teach Pilates properly. If I didn't know how the body works, if I hadn't been practising sport all my life, if I didn't know about rehabilitation, then I wouldn't be able to choose the right exercise for the right person."
"I have seen classes of 25 people doing the same exercises, without any questions being made about people's fitness levels and past injures. It's so important to know what your client is capable of doing, what their injuries are, and it's according to that that you teach them. In the small Applied Pilates groups you know you can allocate enough attention to the client."
Slim's approach to rehabilitation has been so effective that practitioners regularly refer patients to him. This has resulted in him helping clients with a variety of conditions including prolapsed discs, hip replacements and shoulder injuries. Women both pre and post pregnancy have also benefited from his teaching.
He believes that Pilates has the potential to help all people, whatever their age or gender, as he explains: "People are different so you cannot make a rigid interpretation of Pilates. It doesn't matter what your fitness level or background is. We will be able to assess your problem or injury and take you through the rehabilitation gradually, building up the exercises. The exercises can be simple things that you are able to do and enjoy."
"In improving his clients' posture and stability Slim uses his advanced qualifications in mat and equipment based Pilates exercises to enable them to gain long lasting results as quickly as possible.
It's so important to gather all the knowledge you have gleaned as an instructor and apply that to the individual client or patient, never to copy a set pattern of doing things."
Facts focus - Slim Tlili
- Qualified at 21 as a physiotherapist in Tunisia
- Trained with Body Control Pilates teachers and gained first mat work qualification in 2002 and then went on to achieve advanced and intermediate mat, reformer.
- Body Control approved trainer for teachers/students.
- Remains dedicated to continuing education and development through the Body Control Pilates
- Plays semi-professional volleyball with London Malory Club at national and international level
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