This innovative mind-body exercise system, developed by Joseph Pilates, dramatically transforms the way your body looks, feels, and acts. It increases strength without excess volume, creating an elegant and harmonious body with slim thighs and a flat abdomen. It teaches you to know your body better, maintain better posture and achieve an easier and more elegant movement. Pilates improves flexibility, agility, and economy of movement, and can help relieve back pain as well as other medical conditions.
Instead of performing many repetitions of each exercise, Joseph H. Pilates prefers a smaller number of more precise movements, which requires proper control of the way we perform it.
To perform the movements correctly, you experience a new awareness of muscle function and control.
Like many other types of exercise, Pilates increases metabolism, promotes respiratory control and circulatory function, and improves bone density and muscle tone. As breathing is constantly optimized, it reduces stress and tension.
Unlike many other forms of exercise, Pilates balances muscle asymmetries, optimizes your silhouette, and improves balance, coordination, and breath control. Pilates works on muscle flexibility and strength. The exercises also help to awaken the awareness of the body.
