Staying Strong With Pilates | The Hundred Wellness Centre

Staying Strong: Enhance Your Overall Well-being With Pilates

September 1, 2021

Nothing is as essential as investing in our well-being. Taking care of our health should always be our highest priority. We can incorporate several things into our lifestyle to live a long and healthier life, including regular exercise and a balanced diet. 

With several types of workout options available, finding the right exercise that suits your lifestyle can be challenging; however, once you ease yourself into a routine, you’ll discover the excellent benefits it can do to your body. Pilates is a low-impact workout that lengthens and stretches all the major muscle groups in the body in a balanced fashion. It improves flexibility, strength, balance and body awareness.

Pilates is a popular form of exercise that also helps improve your spine alignment and overall body posture. Pilates classes generally include a series of exercises that target core strength and stability, muscle control, and endurance. It is also popular for sports training and has proven very effective for physical rehabilitation.

Pilates involves the entire body and is perfect for anyone who requires an intense full-body workout. Pilates corrects underlying structural abnormalities that can cause chronic pain and movement difficulties. 

Pilates Is For Everyone

Pilates caters to everyone, regardless of age, gender and fitness level. Individuals who are only beginning to improve their lifestyle will find that pilates can make it easier to progress into more challenging and rigorous workouts as it conditions the body. Pregnant women, postpartum mothers and individuals recovering from injuries consider pilates as a crucial part of their daily life. This dynamic workout emphasizes fundamental additional qualities such as body awareness, concentration, control, breathing, and flow.

Pilates can also be helpful for elderly people as it can aid in reducing the effects of age-related conditions such as sarcopenia (muscle loss) and osteoporosis (bone loss) as well as improve the quality of life for geriatric patients.