Wake up your muscles!
Turning on the body’s (typically lazy) deep muscles in a slow but sure way — the work of Pilates — improves resting posture, breathing efficiency, and range and efficiency of movement. It makes you feel and look better and better from Day One — potentially reaching stratospheric new levels of wellbeing if you make it a routine.
Given that Pilates addresses interactions between the body’s musculoskeletal system, breathing apparatus, balance controls, and neuromuscular capacity, there’s very little, if anything, it can’t to make better or perfect.
Working with the Reformer machine accelerates the benefits, adds a resistance dimension and provides myriad fun options for working with the whole body. Working on a mat gives you a portable ability to control your body with no aids.
“The Pilates method of body conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body,” Joseph Pilates — the man who invented the system in the 1920s
Where does the hard work happen?