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11 Benefits of Pilates

Pilates was founded by Joseph Pilates in the early 20th century. Pilates focuses on the core muscles as well as the postural muscles all over the body, which helps keep the body balanced and spine supported. This type of exercise teaches breath awareness, muscle control, and mental strength.pilates

Yoga Vs. Pilates

Pilates is somewhat similiar to Yoga, but it has its diffences as well. Yoga consists of maintaining body positions for excess amounts of time to build strength and endurance. It also focuses on inhaling and exhaling through the nose. Pilates uses total body movements to increase strength and endurance. Pilates also incorporates mat work and the Pilates machines while focusing on inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth.

Benefits of Pilates

  1. Refreshing Mind-Body Work-out
  2. Increase Flexibility/Balance
  3. Increase Strength/Endurance Without Bulking Up
  4. Prevent Injury
  5. New Challenge
  6. Increase Core Strength
  7. Improve Overall Mental Well-Being
  8. Improve Sleep
  9. Improve Circulation
  10. Improve Posture
  11. Improve Confidence About Self And Body
Matt

August 2nd, 2008
by Matt
Posted in Fitness, Yoga




2 Responses to “11 Benefits of Pilates”

Princess Dieter
Aug 2nd, 2008
5:10 pm

I am a new “convert” to Pilates. I’ve been a sedentary couch potato since my health broke down in 1989 (with a brief breatk in 2003 with a personal trainer that lasted about 6 months, with not much joy and some muscle gain). This year, at 278 lbs, I began Pilates. I’ve been doing it for a month and no one has to force me to go to my sessions. I’ve felt, seen, experienced the benefits from within a couple weeks. It’s even affected the way I walk. In ONE MONTH. My waist is trimmer, I’m less stiff when I get up in the morning. I can’t wait to see what I feel/look like in 6 months. Unlike the dread of going to a regular gym, I look forward to the very difficult sessions of Pilates–the way I have to engage my mind, the focus on breathing (and I have very bad asthma since childhood, so this is helpful there, as well). I have the fortune of having an excellent teacher, too. Very responsive, cueing, encouraging. I think it may not suit everyone, but it is helpful for this morbidly obese middle-aged gal. If I can do it–ill, creaky, and fat as I am–dang, anyone can start it. The P.

Lynda Lippin
Aug 3rd, 2008
11:43 am

I teach Pilates at a high end resort and what I love is to see how much people’s bodies can change when they do Pilates daily or every other day for a week or two. It’s a huge difference in strength, flexibility, and level of comfort.


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  • “oh and you say that it isn’t starving yourself? try to lower your calorie intakes the way they had to. Just go ahead and try it tomorrow. Try eating half of the calories you normally eat? and also eat different foods than you are accostumed to eating. Plus, I don’t see how it could be healthy to lose that much weight in such a short time. and I’ve heard doctors say the same. and I am sure they were under care of doctors during the show, but I still don’t think it can be healthy. that’s my opinion. GO VICKIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!”

    on Biggest Loser 6: Vicky Vilcan by Stop and Think for a second

  • “It’s a shame that you don’t know the real Vicki. She’s really a sweetie, and a great anesthetist. We love Vicki, and her patients do too. It’s a shame that she is portrayed the way she is portrayed. I don’t believe that she was acting at all. But I do believe that they pieced together Vicki at her worse and crankiest for ratings. and i’m sure that some of the facial expressions were shown out of context with what was happening on the show. You do realize that she sacrificed alot to be on the show. I can see why it’s so competitive for her. She isn’t just competing against herself. She’s competing against everyone else. Why does everyone act like 350,000 is chump change?? Have you guys ever watched Real World Reunions on MTV? I’ve seen on a few occasions where the editors edited the scenes to make fights/arguments seem over the top, when in fact the people of the shows say it wasn’t as it seemed. That it was a 5 minute fight that ended in a hug, and they were friends again later that day. Please don’t talk bad about my friend. she’s a great person!!! She really is!!! and by the way……..she looks amazing!!!”

    on Biggest Loser 6: Vicky Vilcan by Stop and Think for a second

  • “Her own husband told her “that’s enough” in one of the episodes. SHE is making the faces. The words that come out of her mouth are HERS. The body language is HERS. She is not being starved or worked to death. SHE is the one who made the decision to get up in the middle of the night, while everyone else was sleeping, to exercise. SHE made the statement at the beginning of the season that the goal was to win it all. SHE is playing the game and all she can see is the money. All $350,000.00 of it. SHE is the one making herself look ugly. Not NBC.”

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  • “Stop and think for a second — I just thought of something else. The purpose of this show is to change people’s lives so they shouldn’t be starving as you mentioned because that would not be healthy. Marisa you made a very good point about no one else saying horrible things or laughing at people getting hurt. And her smirks were the first thing that I noticed about her. Is her fan club saying NBC told her to make those smirks so it would be caught on camera and she would be the “bad” guy. Is this the first season they told one of the contestants to do that? Are ratings so bad that they need to stoop to this? Isn’t this going down the same lines of fooling their audience that 21 did many years ago making people look smarter than they actually were? Just wondering. It’s really hard to not think of her as just plain mean and being a bully. If I were in her position, I wouldn’t want a tv show portraying me like that, and I don’t care how much hush money they were to offer me, and I could use the money but it just wouldn’t be worth it.”

    on Biggest Loser 6: Vicky Vilcan by Not understanding

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