Pilates for
athletes.
What the best athletes in the world know that most people don’t — and what 30 years of training them has taught Julie Erickson.
Athletes trained by Julie Erickson
NHL · Client since age 19 at BU
NHL · Boston Bruins
NBA
NBA · Featured in The Cut
Performance Athletes
Julie herself · 2,000+ miles/year
The athlete’s edge
What training
can’t give
you alone.
Every serious athlete trains hard. The ones who stay at the top of their sport for the longest time are the ones who also train intelligently — understanding not just how to push, but how to sustain. Classical Pilates is the practice that makes the difference between a career that peaks and one that endures.
Julie Erickson has worked with professional NHL and NBA athletes, endurance competitors, and Cirque du Soleil performers — bodies whose livelihood depends on performing at the highest level, for the longest possible time, with the fewest injuries. She has also run 25 marathons herself and logs over 2,000 training and racing miles annually.
“I worked with Jack Eichel starting when he was 19 at BU. He’s taught me as much as I’ve taught him — including the ankle surgery at HSS that changed my own recovery. That’s what a real training relationship looks like.”
Classical Pilates addresses what athletic training cannot — the deep structural patterns, compensations, and imbalances that build up over years of one-directional effort. It doesn’t replace your sport. It makes your sport possible for longer, at a higher level, with less damage.
What classical Pilates
does for athletes.
Structural balance
Athletic training loads the body asymmetrically — dominant sides get stronger, weaker sides compensate, patterns solidify. Classical Pilates identifies and corrects these imbalances before they become injuries. It creates the baseline symmetry that sustains performance.
Core intelligence
Not core strength — core intelligence. The deep stabilizers that athletes need are not the ones trained by crunches or conventional gym work. Classical Pilates develops the powerhouse — the integrated system of deep abdominals, lower back, and pelvic floor — that everything else runs on.
Injury prevention
Most sports injuries are not acute events — they are the final expression of patterns that have been building for months or years. Classical Pilates identifies those patterns and addresses them before they reach the threshold of injury. It is the most effective injury prevention practice available.
Recovery acceleration
The classical system’s emphasis on articulation, breath, and precise movement makes it exceptionally effective for recovery — both within and between training cycles. Athletes who do Pilates recover faster, because they understand how to move the body intelligently rather than just aggressively.
Movement efficiency
The most efficient athletes are not the ones who work hardest. They are the ones who waste the least energy in every movement. Classical Pilates trains movement efficiency at a neuromuscular level — reducing the energetic cost of the patterns that power athletic performance.
Longevity
The question is not just how well you perform now — it is how long you can keep performing. Classical Pilates is a practice that accumulates. Athletes who train with the method for years find that their bodies become more capable, more resilient, and more sustainable over time — not less.
Sports we specialize in
Your sport.
Your body. Your goals.
Endurance
Running, cycling, triathlon — Julie has run 25 marathons and understands endurance athletes from the inside. Classical Pilates addresses what miles cannot.
Hockey
Julie has trained NHL players including Jack Eichel and Tuukka Rask. She understands what the game demands of the body and how to build the stability and power it requires.
Basketball
Trained Mason Plumlee and the New York Knicks. The lateral demand, vertical explosion, and joint loading of basketball make classical Pilates an essential complement.
Dance & Performance
Cirque du Soleil performers and Broadway dancers — elite bodies that must combine extreme flexibility with extraordinary strength. The classical method was developed with dancers in mind.
Why Julie
An athlete who
trains athletes.
Julie is not a trainer who coaches athletes from the outside. She is a lifelong competitive endurance athlete — 25 marathons, an ultra-marathon, and over 2,000 training miles annually — who happens to also be Boston’s master classical Pilates instructor. She understands performance bodies because she lives in one.
She is also a RRCA Certified Running Coach, NASM and ACE Certified Personal Trainer, and has been working with elite professional athletes since the early stages of her career. When she evaluates an athlete’s body, she brings 30 years of experience and genuine athletic intelligence to that assessment.
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