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“I teach women, men professional athletes, elderly -- even over 80 years old! -- as well as marathon
runners, prenatal, postnatal and even clients with Parkinson’s and MS,” says Macaleer. “Clients come
to us with individual goals. These could be as simple as strengthening their core or toning their body,
but a lot of times it represents something else happening in their live, whether it’s recovering from a
sports injury or strengthening their body after the birth of a child.”
and post-natal programs, which provide exercises to help strengthen the
pelvic floor and prepare the body for the stress of labor and recover in its
aftermath. “Our focus is to not just give a workout, but to help women gain
specific support to offset certain health issues that can come up during
pregnancy,” says Macaleer. “We work with women in all their different
stages of pregnancy and post,” including consulting with clients’ physical
therapists “to
make sure we are bringing the most we can to the women during a very
special but sometime complicated time.” Macaleer has also created a
video series of video workouts that can be done anywhere. “I see firsthand “Sitting is the new smoking,” Macaleer says. “Because our work is so
how busy our clients are and how difficult it is to find the time to make it much on a computer/phone, we habitually have to be more ‘forward’ in
to the studio,” she says. The first video, “Aline Blast,” is 15-minute session posture. This forward posture of our head, because we are looking down,
clients can do without props. While clients come from all walks of life, one can cause headaches, weakness in the neck, and low back pain. In order
commonality Macaleer is seeing is the prevalence of desk-bound men that we combat the amount of ‘forward living,’ we need to in our exercise
and women stuck in a stationary position most of the day. They are the make sure we are working to increase proper posture, stretching and
perfect candidates for a*line’s classes. strengthening of all the muscles that keep our skeletal system upright.”