Pilates. The Top 10 Things You Should Know.
Posted on June 24, 2010
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1.Pilates Helps With Better Posture.
All the weight of your body is supported by the spine. your body to move with comfort and ease . That’s how the theory goes anyway. But in reality , hours spent sitting in front of a computer screen or slumped in front of a TV means that the spine’s natural S shape is lost,resulting in back pain and rounded shoulders. Pilates helps to re-align the spine and with that comes better posture.
2. Relief from Painful Back Pain .
of lower back pain is caused by poor posture and our day by day mistreatment of our spines. By re-aligning your spine and correcting your posture, through pilates lower back pain can often be eliminated entirely.
3. Pilates Can Help Prevent Osteoporosis.
One in two women and one in five men who are aged over 50 in the UK will break a bone, principally because of a bone disorder known as osteoporosis. Osteoporosis affects three million people in the UK every year, with bones (and particularly those of the hips, wrist and spine ) becoming brittle, thin and weak leading to fractures. By promoting proper posture and balance, pilates can really help you avoid becoming one of those people.
4. Greater Stamina and Strength .
Pilates helps increase your strength and stamina without creating unwanted bulk. Pilates focuses on streghening your “core” muscles – muscles found in your abdominal and pelvic regions also in your back. By toning and stretching these muscles, and by realigning your posture, your strength and stamina will improve steadily in a short space of time .
5. Deeper and More Natural Sleep .
If you ask anyone to name three vital things essential for life, you will be told, air, water and food . Not many people will sleep and yet it is essential to life. A disturbing ten million prescriptions for sleeping meds are issued each year in England alone – a figure that gives you some idea of the millions of people who have insomnia . Pilates can help to stretch muscles, releasing tension and pain . Pilates can also help to trigger natural sleep responses.
6. Beat stress and Relax Too.
Pilates is a great form of exercise that actually re-introduces you to your own body. And the better you understand your body and how it works , the easier it will be for you to relieve tension. Pilates helps you to relax and overcomes the stresses and strains of every day life.
7. Pilates can help with the prevention of incontinency.
Incontinence caused by stress is the most common form of incontinence and affects over three million people in the UK. A major cause of this type of incontinence in women is pregnancy, because the pelvic floor muscles can be weakened, but as we get older muscles in the pelvic area can weaken too. Pilates teaches you to strengthen and tone the muscles of your pelvic floor , many times curing what can be a very distressing problem for millions of people .
8. Pilates can Sharpen Your Balance and Improve Co-ordination .
Pilates helps to improve your balance and co-ordination by realigning your spine and toning your “core” muscles. Better balance and co-ordination means fewer injuries – and so pilates growing popularity among professional sports people – from dancers to rugby players .
9. Pilates Speeds Up Recovery After Injury .
Because of its low impact nature , pilates is known as being beneficial to people who are recovering from certain types of injury including whiplash and a wide range of sporting injuries. Indeed, many of the injuries that sports people are are prone to can be avoided – and pilates in ensuring correct body movement and core body strength leads to less of these types of injuries.
10. No pain plenty gain !
In nearly all gyms you will hear the mantra “no pain, no gain”, but you won’t hear it ever in a pilates studio. Pilates is a gentle non-aerobic type of exercise that will tone and strengthen your muscles and transform poor posture without placing any stress on either the joints or the heart.
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