Pilates is about regaining the natural posture in the body and achieving optimal strength, agility, balance and endurance. Balance between strength and mobility, but also balance between the physical and the spiritual. The goal is simply to feel good! Yesterday we talked about how yoga and pilates complement each other in a good way. Here I explain more about what Pilates is.

Pilates is an intelligent form of exercise, and a system of exercises made to get a strong, smooth and balanced body. Pilates sees every person from a holistic perspective. Properly performed pilate training leads to increased body awareness, control and balance. We strive for equilibrium in the muscles with a focus on the deep stabilising muscles that hold the body upright. The result is that the whole you feel better and you become stronger as a human being.

 

One can say that pilates are two things:
1. An explanation of how to use the body in the best way to find the natural posture in the body and get the most out of the exercise. 
2. An exercise bank with over 500 exercises that can be performed both with machines and tools such as balls, rolls, bands etc. but also only with the own body.

 

Pilates are strength training, stabilisation training and agility training. All exercises are designed to strengthen the whole body, and not only strengthen a muscle group and aim to have a stronger, smoother and more balanced body.

 

You work very carefully and the most important thing is how to keep your body and that you breathe properly, not how far you get in motion, how much weight you put on or how many repetitions you do.

 

Pilates rather a technique than a training form and it requires a strong focus from its practitioner. We place importance on control, precision, concentration and breathing. In the pilate training, we look up the weaknesses and the imbalances and rebuild the body. You usually say that you are not stronger than the weakest link, and we are looking for it and want it to be as strong as possible.

 

In Pilates, you practice five basic principles:

1. Breath
2. The pelvis’s placement
3. The placement of the chest
4. Shoulder Stabilisation and Movement
5. Location of the head and neck

 

Some of the pilate training’s main advantages are:

• Safe and effective training.
• Strengthens the body’s deep-seated muscles.
• Balances strength and agility.
• Improves balance, coordination and circulation.
• Improves posture.
• Is gentle, which means that everyone can exercise it – regardless of gender, age or physical status.
• Increases body awareness – you use your body more effectively.
• Increases performance in other sports (golf, skiing, yoga, dancing, etc.).
• Is very successful as rehabilitation after injury.

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