Thursday 19 August 2010

How to Improve Fitness with Pilates Exercises

How to Improve Fitness with Pilates Exercises



Pilates exercises are a great way to improve fitness, develop strength and reduce body weight. Let us go through some of the features of pilates exercises and how they help you keep fit.


  1. These exercise routines help to elongate muscles and help with positioning as well as muscle movements which in turn helps in reducing probability of injuries. But you should also know that pilates exercises can not help you develop big muscles.
  2. Another plus point of pilates routines is that you can do them in very short time. This is advantageous for people who get very less time to devote to physical fitness. These exercises can be completed in at most 20 minutes and any of the exercises do not have more than 10 repetitions in them.
  3. These are not only effective for physical fitness but also help with overall mind body fitness. The basic methodology involves breathing for increasing blood circulation in brain thereby helping to remove toxins which exist in body.
  4. There are advance pilates exercises also such as winsor pilates but you should try them only after the basic exercises have been mastered. These can help you with losing the highest percentage of energy and thus lose a lot of weight. At the advanced stage you can go for use of pilates equipments such as resistance bands, mats and exercise balls.
  5. There are many exercise studios also opening up nowadays which you can join if you do not like to workout on your own. In these studios you get company of others, as well as get standard exercising equipment and guidance from expert trainers.

If your goal is to get good physical & mental fitness and also maintain it then for you pilates exercises would be the most suitable option to choose.

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