Do you hate the gym, the thought of grunting & sweating in front of dozens of strangers? If you want to tone up, lose weight and get stronger, but don’t feel ready to join the gym then Pilates exercises at home are a great way to kick-start your new fitness regime.
As science has moved forward, Pilates has evolved over the years to become the series of exercises that is so effective in giving you the body that you want.
Pilates teaches you to know your own body. It teaches body awareness and increases strength and improves your posture so that you do not put unnecessary pressure on your spine & other joints. Through correct alignment you will stand taller and as you progress through the exercises you will become toned and more flexible.
Joseph Pilates was a man way ahead of his time when it came to body awareness and developed a series of exercises designed to be carried out in order to gain maximum benefit for the body from the sequence in which the exercises work each muscle.
It is important not to try to skip ahead to the advanced exercises before you have mastered the basic ones, however fit you are. Pilates works so effectively because it sets a proper foundation for moving forward and once you have mastered the correct form for each movement you can then move on to the more advanced levels.
If you try to go full-steam ahead with the advanced workouts without a solid understanding of the fundamentals of Pilates then the exercises will definitely not be as effective and it’s also possible that you will injure yourself.
Carried out correctly, Pilates exercises are safe and beneficial for your body and many of the exercises have been adapted to enable the exerciser to recover from injury by strengthening the muscles without putting strain on their injury.
It’s not what you do, but how you do it. That’s true of so many different things in life, but it’s one of the key elements that sets Pilates apart from other forms of exercise. Pilates is not about mindlessly jumping up in the air, it’s intelligent exercise that works with your body’s framework to make it stronger and more flexible. When it came to the awareness of how the body moved & how each muscle worked as part of the whole framework of the body, Joseph Pilates understood these principles far better than anyone else of his generation. That’s why you can get such incredible results with Pilates exercises in such a short space of time.
