Why is Pilates the best exercise for you?
Announcement posted by the business of yoga 01 Dec 2015
Pilates is a refreshing mind-body workout
By emphasizing proper breathing, correct spinal and pelvic alignment, and concentration on smooth, flowing movement, Pilates exercises help you become acutely in tune with your body. You actually learn how to control its movement. Pilates helps to keep the muscles around the joints strong and helps to prevent instability and hyper mobility that can be caused through over stretching in yoga practices.
Proper breathing is essential, and helps you execute movements with maximum power and efficiency. Last but not least, learning to breathe properly can reduce stress.
Develop a strong core and help keep your spine stable and strong
Pilates exercises develop a strong "core," or centre of the body. The core consists of the deep abdominal muscles, pelvic floor along with the muscles closest to the spine. Pilates helps you strengthen all of these muscles to enable a greater overall strength, so that all the muscles are effective in keeping your spine and body strong. Having the strength in the muscles that support your joints helps prevent overstretching and injury in your Yoga practice.
Gain long, lean muscles and flexibility
More conventional or traditional gym workouts are weight bearing and tend to build short, bulky muscles - the type most prone to injury. Doing Pilates exercises elongate and strengthen the muscles, improving muscle elasticity and joint mobility and stability at the same time. A body with balanced strength and flexibility is less likely to be injured.
Create an evenly toned body, improve sports performance, and prevent injuries
Often the conventional gym, weight workouts tend to work the same muscles all the time. This can mean that the weak muscles tend to get weaker and the strong muscles tend to get stronger. The result is muscular imbalance and often too much pressure on certain joints which causes them to become "stressed" and over stretched- a primary cause of injury and chronic back pain.
Pilates strengthens the whole body, even the ankles and feet. No muscle group is over trained or under trained. Your entire muscle structure is worked evenly to create balance and condition, helping you enjoy daily activities and sports with greater ease, better performance and less chance of injury. That’s why so many professional sports teams and elite athletes now integrate Pilates exercises as a critical part of their training regimen.
Learn how to move efficiently
Pilates exercises train several muscle groups at once in smooth, continuous low impact movements. By developing proper pilates technique, you can actually re-train your body to move in safer, more efficient patterns of motion -which is invaluable for injury recovery, sports performance, good posture and optimal health.
Pilates exercises are effective
Many of the exercises are performed on the floor lying down or in sitting positions, and all are low impact and partially weight bearing. Pilates is so safe, it is used in physical therapy facilities to rehabilitate injuries.
Pilates is also an extremely flexible exercise system. Modifications to the exercises allow for a range of difficulty ranging from beginning to advanced. Get the workout that best suits you now, and call Anna from The Business of Yoga 0429435726.
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