1.Pilates Helps With   Posture.

All the weight of your body is supported by the spine. Which allows your body to move with ease and comfort . That’s how the theory goes anyway. But in practice , hours spent sitting in front of a computer screen or slouched in front of a TV means that the spine’s natural S shape is lost, resulting in back pain and rounded shoulders. Pilates helps to re-align the spine and with that comes better posture.

 

2. Freedom from Painful Back Pain .

A great deal of lower back pain is caused by poor posture and our day-to-day mistreatment of our spines.  By re-aligning your spine and focusing on your posture, through pilates low back pain can often be eliminated entirely.

 

3. Pilates Can Help Prevent Osteoporosis.

One woman in two and one in five men who are aged over 50 in the UK will break a bone, primarily because of a bone problem called osteoporosis. Osteoporosis affects three million people in the UK every year, with bones (and particularly those of the wrist, hips and spine ) becoming brittle, thin and weak leading to fractures. By promoting proper posture and balance, pilates can definately help you avoid becoming one of those people.

4. See an Increase in Stamina and Strength .

Pilates helps increase your stamina as well as your strength without causing unwanted bulk. Pilates focuses on building your “core” muscles – muscles found in your abdominal and pelvic regions and also in your back. By toning and stretching these muscles, and by correcting your posture, your strength and stamina will improve quickly and easily .

 

5. Deeper and More Natural Sleep .

If you ask anyone to name things necessary for life, you will be told, air, water and food . Almost no one will sleep and yet it is to life. A worrying ten million prescriptions for sleeping meds are issued every year in England alone – a figure that gives you some idea of the numbers of people who suffer from insomnia . Pilates can help loosen muscles, releasing tension and pain . Pilates can also help to trigger natural sleep responses.

 

6. Beat stress and Relax Too.

Pilates is a great form of exercise that literally re-introduces you to your own body. And the more you understand your body and how it should work , the easier it will be for you to lessen tension. Pilates helps you to relax and overcomes the stresses and strains of day to day life.

7. Pilates can help with the prevention of incontinence.

incontinence created through stress is the most common form of incontinence and can affect nearly three million people in the UK. A major cause of this type of incontinence in women is pregnancy, because the pelvic floor muscles can be weakened, but as we get older muscles in the pelvic area can lose tone too. Pilates can help to strengthen the muscles of your pelvic floor , many times curing what is a very distressing problem for millions of people .

8. Pilates can Sharpen Your Balance and Improve Co-ordination .

Pilates helps to sharpen your balance and co-ordination by realigning your spine and toning your “core” muscles. Good balance and co-ordination means fewer injuries – hence pilates growing popularity among professional sports people – from footballers to golfers .

 

9. Pilates Can Help To Prevent Injury .

Because of its low impact nature , pilates is widely recognised as being beneficial to people who are recovering from certain types of injury including whiplash and a great deal of sporting injuries. Indeed, many of the injuries that sports people are afflicted with can be avoided – and pilates can be foremost in ensuring correct body movement and core body strength leads to fewer such injuries.

 

10. All The Gain Without The Pain !

In nearly all gyms you will hear the saying  “no pain, no gain”,  but you won’t hear it said in a pilates studio. Because pilates is a gentle non-aerobic form of exercise that will strenghten and tone your muscles and poor posture without stressing the joints or the heart.

 

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