Saturday, May 18, 2013

What Are The Benefits One Can Get In Doing Pilates?

By Angela Winter


Pilates is already a widely-known form of exercise. Aside from the benefits that an individual can get in doing Pilates, one of the reason for its increasing popularity is that it is easy to do and perform. The focused of Pilates is mainly on its six basic principles, which when done properly will give an outcome that is desired by many Pilates practitioners. The six essential concepts of Pilates are centering, concentration, precision, control, flow and breathing. One may ask what benefits they can get if you choose to do Pilates instead of other types of exercise? Here is a list of of benefits that you can get in practicing Pilates:

-A person's core strength is increased when doing Pilates. One of the essential principles of Pilates is centering which means focusing to the center of the body which can be found in the area between the lower ribs and pubic bone. In Pilates, doing exercises that focuses on centering will help your body to increase its core strength.

-Another benefit that a your body can get in doing Pilates is mindfulness and relaxation. This can be achieved since Pilates exercise is done in a slow manner and with a relaxing environment, therefore providing opportunity for people practicing it to reach a relaxed state, making him concentrate and be aware of his whole body. As he reached a relaxing state, the person will be able to discern and learn what areas and parts of his boy needs more development and improvement. Thus people practicing Pilates are known to have developed and improved posture and proper breathing and they become less stressed.

-Pilates is a form of exercise that anybody can do. Because of its adaptability, anybody can practice this kind of exercise regardless of your size, weight, color, gender, age and lifestyle they have. Also Pilates has a wide array of different exercises, so any individual can choose what set of Pilates exercise is advisable and is applicable for them to practice.

-Pilates can also help a person achieve improved muscle tone and lose weight. Despite the fact that weight-lifting equipment is not utilized in this kind of exercise, Pilates can help a person attain the results of weight loss and toned muscle because of the set of properly-coordinated Pilates exercises, proper breathing techniques and full body concentration.

-Pilates is an easy to do exercise. But for beginners, doing it with the help of a Pilates expert or trainer is advisable to make sure that you will be able to do the set of exercises properly and a trainer may help you choose and decide what sets of Pilates exercise is suited for you. Once you have learned to do the exercise appropriately, you can try to practice it without the guidance of your Pilates Trainer.

-Pilates is focused to improve not just one area or portion of your body but your over-all body including the mind. Thus practicing Pilates does not only mean improving your physical state but as well as improving your intellectual and your state of mind.

One can see that they can get a lot of benefits from doing Pilates. But the most important factor in doing any kinds of exercise is to make sure to do it appropriately and putting your heart in the exercise that you are doing. That way, you will not only be getting the benefits that you desire in doing the exercise, but you will be able to love the things that you do when practicing the exercise making you practice it more and more.




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