4 Astonishing Health Benefits of Pilates Workout

Pilates Body Shape is a highly recognized Pilates Studio in Chiswick with an experienced and committed pool of instructors and trainers in both mat and reformer Pilates.

In the late 1900s, Joseph Pilates with the objective of helping the war and military veterans cope with their mind, body and soul devised a physical fitness regime that has now sprouted as one of the widely popular and acclaimed forms of exercise among fitness enthusiasts of all ages and abilities. It has become the synonym of lean, toned and meticulous bodies. Going by the statistics, today more than 12 million people practice Pilates daily.

Pilates Body Shape is the leading pilates studio Ealing extending Pilates workout session to the people in the UK. Pilates can be done on a mat by using your own body weight as resistance to strengthen the core and build muscles, a reformer which is an apparatus used to support the movements and posture of the body while practising Pilates or a ball to make this form of exercising more challenging yet uplifting. Whatever the medium of practice or technique used, the body movements and postures remain the same.

The benefits of Pilates go beyond the textbook written implications of core strengthening, muscle building and flexibility. It’s a complete body workout that also targets and rejuvenates your mind and soul, thus has completely shaken up the landscape of regular weightlifting and cardio fitness physical routines. 

Laced with an array of surprising benefits, Pilates is coming up as one of the most effective and highly transforming forms of cross-training workouts.

Complete Body Transformation: Unlike other physical routines and fitness exercises, Pilates does not focus particularly on the development of any specific part of your body and underdevelopment of others. It takes the entire body as a whole, thus aims at strengthening the core, muscle development and flexibility. The Pilates is an integrative fitness that takes body, mind and soul as a whole so that they all can work in perfect sync to promote collective harmony.

Promote Lean and Toned Muscles: Conventional forms of exercise and workout routines involve weightlifting, thus paves way you short and bulky muscles that are difficult to maintain and keep up to. These traditional forms of exercises build muscles that are most prone to injury and displacement. Pilates promote elongated, strengthened, lean and toned muscles that significantly enhance muscle elasticity, flexibility and joint mobility.

Effective Remedy for Back Pain: People who have suffered from chronic back pain all there life, within a few sessions of Pilates has experienced much relief from the unbearable and spine splitting back pain than the ones who have paid daily visits to physicians and muscle specialists for years. Adding the cherry on the top is the surprising fact that the problem of back pain to these people stayed afar for a complete year post-Pilates.

Sure shot Energy Boost: Well, this one is true for every single form of workout. The more you push your limits during these workout sessions, the more energized you feel and the more you feel like pushing yourself to the brink. Pilates work on your breathing and blood circulation triggers spine and revitalize muscles and promote the flow of good feelings throughout your body that encourages you to stay active and revitalized all day long.

The quest for improvised and better way of training and the underlying health benefits has pushed millions of people globally to Pilates. When are you joining?