The basics of Pilates Exercise

If you’re highly informed or even if you’re one of those people
that just stay home, no doubt you’ve heard of the Pilates
Exercise. Pilates Exercises sometimes used an acronym for
Proximal Integrating Latent Agile Toning Exercise; it aims to
stretch and to strengthen your body that is why most
contortionists and ballet dancers get into it. But just because
people are taking it for physical improvement, and weight loss,
it doesn’t mean that a Pilates exercise is a cardiovascular
exercise. Pilates is basically a low intensity exercise, but you
could still exert a bit, but not like how much you exert during
an aerobics class. Most instructors recommend Pilates with
aerobics and other forms of exercise for best effects.

The Pilates Exercise was invented by Joseph Pilates, a German
National, as a self exercise. Pilates was born a fragile child,
sickly and asthmatic, so he took to exercise to improve his
body. When he was a bit older, he was living in France, and was
arrested as an “enemy alien.’ During his internment, he was
assigned in the medical facilities of the prison and this is
where he put Pilates into use, as rehabilitation exercises for
the sick. He attached springs to Hospital beds for Later he
moved to the United States and opened his own Studio.

Since then the Pilates exercises has gained its reputation for
helping improve the overall physical state of the body. Pilates
exercise is a series of breathing techniques combined with
stretching and a simple machine. Pilates exercises improve the
body’s core, which includes the muscles in the abdomen, back,
and buttocks. Some say it is better than yoga overall because it
strengthens the body through improving posture strength and
flexibility through stretching. The machines used in Pilates,
are there to challenge the body, by making it stay in certain
positions while moving the other parts in differing directions,
thereby training the body to endure strain, thus increasing
strength.

The basic Ideology of the Pilates Exercise is the use of the
body’s mental ability to improve movement, efficiency and muscle
control, which is also why they say that Pilate exercise somehow
improves one’s mental state. Pilates also makes you aware of
proper posture, due to the exercises that you do, it also
develops the muscles in the back and abdomen, further
contributing to your good posture. Pilate exercise also uses
breathing techniques, which further increases mental focus. And
probably one of the greatest focuses of Pilates is flexibility
strength of the muscles. It is this ideology that made Pilates
popular among dancers when it first started out.

Many Pilates enthusiasts and users have testified to the
effectiveness of Pilates. With regular classes, the bodies
become well balanced and stronger. Some say that after each
workout, you can instantly feel the difference it has made to
the parts of the body, mainly the legs back and abs. Aside from
increased strength, there is also the topic of weight loss, this
is what most people aim for when they do Pilates exercises, and
this is achieved indeed when you do Pilates. Aside from the ones
above other results of Pilates include increased energy levels,
higher endurance, better flexibility, great abdominal workouts,
and overall physical well being. Aside from those stated above,
Pilates exercises are also used for the rehabilitation of
physical injuries, because of its low intensity level and
focused form of exercise, some doctors say that it is best for
the treatment of injuries on the limbs.

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