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Pilates helps to stave off stress and keeps the body in shape

Pilates helps to stave off stress and keeps the body in shape

Increasingly common in gyms and specialized centers, pilates is a method that uses stretching techniques to tone muscles and realign posture. In addition, practitioners seek union between body and mind. Breathing, posture and concentration are some of the main targets of the activity. The modality integrates the whole body, however, the main focus of the work is the strengthening of the abdomen. More firm, this region better supports the spine (especially in the lumbar region) and also vital organs.

Contours Academy's Physical Educator and Pilates Instructor, Marina Soares Fressato, recommends practice as a stress prevention and treatment factor . In addition to having individual and supervised attention, exercises require concentration of mind and body.

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Indication
Anyone can practice?

Yes, pilates can be practiced by anyone. Its founder, Joseph Hubertus Pilates, was a rickety and asthmatic child and spent his entire life researching body development techniques. The main care is with people who have problems in the cervical spine, because the exercises slightly overload this region. However, there are ways to isolate these movements by performing others, all with medical clearance.

Is indicated in which cases?

Back pain, poor posture and joint problems, as it benefits the strengthening of the postural muscles and stabilizers

Pilates can be a form of anti-stress therapy?
Absolutely. In pilates, breathing is very important and is part of the practice. Performing it properly, expanding the chest cavity well and taking full advantage of the pulmonary alveoli, requires focus. On the other hand, movements also require concentration and body awareness because they are often performed on movable, flexible or hanging surfaces, which require balance of strength and extension.

Breathing work and concentrating on pilates helps to stave off stress

Practice
What to do at home?
Some exercises can be performed on the floor, on a mat, and others on the gym ball. But it is the specific devices that transform the lesson into a playful activity, with various combinations and possibilities. The devices assist a lot in the posture and practice of several movements, as well as create greater or less difficulty and resistance in the execution.

What types of care are needed?

In addition to constant attention to breathing and posture each movement, you just need to wear comfortable clothing, preferably not blocking any function of the device, and drop your shoes.

Practicing pilates is like working out, only slowly?
No. The movements practiced in pilates tend to recruit many more muscular fibers than those required in the ordinary workout. The same exercise can combine the action of more than one muscle group, and the possibility of making several variations on a single device tends to provide flexibility and elasticity hardly reached without help from these accessories.

Benefits
Pilates slimming?
Pilates exercises require strength and flexibility, but they are not like aerobics that are directly related to weight loss.

Pilates work promotes body awareness (strengthening, stretching, and flexibility), and it helps to build muscle, , the control of the breath and the consequent focus in oneself, that provides corporal and mental balance. Hence, substantial withdrawal from anxiety in daily activities and in interpersonal relationships.

Yes, the activity can help prevent the so-called "modern" diseases: poor posture, tendonitis, shortening, headache, lack of disposition and anxiety.


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