Ten Benefits of Pilates: Part Two
by Jemma Lekkas |
How can Clinicial Pilates benefit you:
1) Pilates is Adaptable & Accessible
Male or female, overweight or super-fit, elderly or young, injured or elite athlete, it doesn’t matter! Pilates is for everybody and every body. Pilates exercises can be modified to fit individual needs. Its basic principles of mind-body connection, proper alignment, and core strength are applicable and accessible to everyone.
2) Allows for Improved Posture & Balance
Pilates trains the body to use core activation to support posture, allowing the neck and shoulders to relax. It will make you stand and sit taller, and reduce lower back pain. Enhancing this core control and stability will also improve balance.
3) Re-awakening Strength & Flexibility
Pilates exercises elongate and lengthen the neuromuscular system (or nerve and muscle connections). They boost flexibility and joint mobility while enhancing the activation of your muscles improving strength. They will give you an increased range of motion and toned, long, and strong muscles.
4) Helps Reduce Stress
Pilates encourages a mind-body connection. Integrating body and mind increases awareness and learning to breathe properly clears the mind, calms the body, and reduces stress levels.
5) Improves your Sports Performance
Clinical Pilates works to optimize the activation of your postural stability muscles, providing the foundation for the activation and motor control needed for all of your muscles. Clinical Pilates is a full-body workout, meaning no muscle groups are over or under- worked. The whole body is conditioned, from head to toes. This allows for evenly balanced muscles and a strong postural foundation. When your postural stability is strong, all activities and workouts can improve and become easier.
6) Great Pre & Post-Natal Fitness and Rehabilitation
Pilates is fantastic for pregnant women and women who have recently given birth. It can reduce lower back pain, strengthen pelvic floor and stomach muscles, improve balance, encourage relaxation, control breathing, manage incontinence, and help regain pre-pregnancy posture and fitness.
7) Management of your Lower Back Pain
Once again, a strong postural stability equals improvement. Pilates exercises can re-awaken and strengthen weak muscles in the lumbar-pelvic region, the most common site of lower back pain. This stabilisation alleviates stress on the area and gives greater mobility. Pilates will also stretch tight back muscles, and correct the poorer postures and alignment, which can lead to back pain.
8) Great option for Rehabilitation from Injury or Surgery
Pilates is gentle, and many exercises are performed in a sitting, lying or reclined position, making it ideal for rehabilitation. It is low impact and low weight bearing, and exercises can be easily modified to suit each individual patient. By practicing proper technique, it enables the body to move more efficiently, which can also prove helpful in injury recovery.
9) Prevention of Injuries
Clincial Pilates exercises are focused on your individual preference for exercise - this individualisation is the significant difference to other pilates modalities and is the secret weapon to proper and optimized muscle activation and recruitment leading to increased function and ability. As a result of this optimisation, imbalances caused by regular everyday activities are corrected, giving you an increased sense of strength throughout your body as a whole. Balance of the neuromuscular system as a whole means you are less likely to sustain an injury.
10) Move more Efficiently
Clinical Pilates exercise are aimed at 2 main outcomes: Look Good and Feel Good. The result of these outcomes is a more efficient movement pattern that feels less labored than you would be expecting. These improved and efficient movement patterns will over time translate into your every day life, making your overall activity feeling easier and more enjoyable.
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