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A very healthy way to get in shape
Although the Pilates Method has nearly a century, has not been until recent years when it started to become fashionable as a perfect exercise to improve our quality of life. Especially beneficial for those who suffer an injury or muscle pain, Pilates is no longer exclusive to Hollywood celebrities to pass within the reach of your hand thanks to the proliferation of centers that offered.

Based on the balance of our body as a whole, mental concentration and breathing, is a technique that, once learned, does not require too much effort to keep your body healthy and fit.

The Pilates method offers us the chance to win health and strengthen our bodies. According to Mabel Cabrera, coach of the Pilates Foundation, “working from the deeper muscles to the more peripheral.” Can also be useful when dealing with problems of the spine, so frequently by poor postural education that exists today.

That is why this method “is fully integrated into rehabilitation programs in countries like U.S. and UK,” says the expert. Following this, Cabrera suggests, “Are especially favorable for persons who sit for long periods or who have some type of orthopedic, neurological and chronic pain.” However, these exercises can be practiced by people of all ages and do not require special physical ability.

One of the principles of this technique speaks of the fluidity and precision of movement, which is acquired with practice. Well executed, in addition to helping the muscles, is able to “help loosen the joints and even improve the coordination between body and mind,” says the coach.

But if something especially noticeable benefits of this method is in the “strengthening of the abdomen, arms, legs, buttocks and back,” says the specialist in Pilates, which is reflected in postural correction. Even if you persevere in training, exercises end up giving the person who practices a “definite and stylized appearance in the muscles, rather than rounded or grow in volume, as may occur with the weights, elongated profile, “says Mabel Cabrera.

With this in mind, it can become the perfect way to shape our shape aesthetically, as they manage to achieve some of the aspects that define this body ideal that all women have in mind, namely, “a shapely waist and an arms and legs toned, slim, well-defined “details the expert.

Although it is shown that regular exercise helps us feel better about ourselves, most of the time, either for lack of time or desire, we leave the physical activity side, which takes its toll on our health and silhouette . However, the coach of the Pilates Foundation says that “regularly attend class two or three times a week is enough.”

In these classes, is essential professional supervision shall examine the case of each client to suit your needs. Generally, in each session “slow and controlled exercises performed by a preset program,” specifies Cabrera, who adds that you can practice with “very specific machines or on the floor, and both individual classes and in small groups “.

The results will be visible in a short time, and collected, especially in our strength, our way to walk or sit and, eventually, a better overall appearance.

The popular Pilates is not only useful to improve areas like figure, posture, relaxation or concentration. The evolution of techniques, has come to develop a series of exercises used in therapy to improve sexual life partner.

The therapies are carried out in pairs, giving both greater firmness, flexibility and stamina, which helps more enjoyable sexuality. Pilates exercises focus for couples, working mainly on toning the legs, buttocks and abdomen.
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Joseph Pilates invented about 600 different exercises to develop this technique. But he made a compilation with the fundamental exercises in his book “Return to life through the Contrology”, explaining 34 basic postures that featured photographs of himself performing the exercises.

Today, many schools have been established in the leading Pilates is practiced, in part, that the original method developed by Joseph Pilates was a little distorted. While staying true to the invention of many associated with the Pilates exercises has led to perform a medley of teachings which, though resembling the original method, have led to changes in the way of making art. But then detail a series of basic exercises of Pilates: Read the rest of this entry »

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