Transforming Your Body With Pilates
Dancers and boxers have been transforming their bodies using Pilates for a long time. Pilates is a unique combination of mind and body exercises that builds strength without bulking your muscles. Using the Pilates system develops a sleek body that includes a flat abdomen, slender thighs and long lean muscles. A healthy body is a body made with Pilates. Using the exercises of Pilates you can become more flexible, agile, and improve muscle strength. Athletes know that Pilates help them to avoid injury. Many in Hollywood use Pilates to maintain those awesome shapely bodies that the camera loves.
The total Pilates system uses both the floor mat and special equipment and can be used by individuals of all ages who have various health conditions. We are at our healthiest when our mind is in tuned with our body and also when we learn to breath properly. When we breathe correctly we can reduce most of our stress. Regular Pilates elongates and also strengthens muscles, which in turn will improve muscle strength and joint mobility. When this occurs in the body there is less chance for injury during sports. Pilates helps individuals to develop a strong core (deep abdominal muscles closest to the spine), flat abdominal muscles, and a back that is strong.
In contrast to traditional exercises that tend to make weak muscles weaker and strong muscles stronger Pilates conditions the entire body allowing all muscle groups to be evenly balanced and worked. You use both your mind and body to ensure that you can retrain your body to move in such a way as to have less chance for injuries. Pilates is extremely safe and gentle to your body; the smooth movements avoid the jarring and impact that so many other exercise programs have.
Pilates because of it’s flexibility, is for individuals of all physical condition including the beginner who is out of condition to the individual who is ready to advance to a higher level of conditioning. When using Pilates an individual learns how to use proper breathing, concentration and control in everyday situations and achieving this by training your mind to be acutely aware of what your body is doing including how you are breathing.
When you are in control of your breathing you become more aware of your surroundings and of how you are reacting to your surroundings. When you mind and body are in sync instead of merely reacting to situations you are able to have a controlled reaction.
Doing Pilates is not something that will bore you as easily as other exercises may do because the repetitions are fewer and spread out over different exercises.
Would you like to take your body from it’s present condition and transform it into a body that you would enjoy; a body in which you can look and feel fit and healthy; a body that resists injury? If your answer is yes, take action and start Pilates today and start your body transformation.
