Basics about the Pilates Exercises

Pilates Exercises is to stretch and strengthen your body

if you're one of those people that just stay home, no doubt you've heard of the Pilates exercises. The purpose of Pilates Exercises is to strengthen and stretch your body. That is why Pilates Exercises are so popular with ballet dancers and  most contortionists .

 But just because people are using Pilates exercise for physical improvement and weight loss does not mean that a Pilates exercise is a cardiovascular exercise. Pilates is basically a low-intensity exercise. Most instructors recommend Pilates with aerobics and other forms of exercise for best effects.

 Pilates Exercise was invented by Joseph Pilates, a German, as a self exercise. Pilates was born a frail and sickly, asthmatic boy, so he had to exercise to improve your body. When I was a little older, living in France, and was arrested as an "enemy alien." During his internment, he was assigned to the medical services of the prison, and this is where it gets use Pilates exercise as rehabilitation exercises for the sick.

 Since then the Pilates exercises has gained its reputation for helping to improve the overall fitness of the organism. Pilates exercise is a series of breathing techniques combined with stretching and a simple machine. Pilates exercises designed to improve core body. This includes the muscles of 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, making it stay in certain positions while moving the other parts in different directions, forming what the body resist stress, increasing strength.

 The basic ideology of the Pilates exercise is the use of the mental ability of the body to improve the mobility, efficiency and muscle control, which is why they say that Pilate exercise somehow improves mental state. Pilates also makes you realize the correct posture. Because the exercises performed, but also develops the muscles of the back and abdomen, further promoting good posture.

 Pilate exercise also uses breathing techniques, which further increases mental focus. And probably one of the major axes of Pilates is flexibility strength of the muscles. It is the ideology that made Pilates popular among dancers in the beginning.

 Many Pilates enthusiasts and users have testified to the effectiveness of this program. With regular classes, the bodies become well balanced and solid. Some say that after each workout, you can instantly feel the difference it has made to parts of the body, mainly the back legs and abdominal.

 Aside from increased strength, weight loss is what many people aspire when they do Pilates exercises. Pilates Other benefits include increased energy levels, greater strength, flexibility, great workouts abdominal and general fitness.