There are certain parts of the body on which you have to focus first if you want to be super healthy. With Pilates for beginners you will learn to develop your abdominal muscles and correct your body posture.
Pilates for beginners is focused primarily on small groups of muscles, after a while you will start to work with larger groups of muscles. The important thing is to keep your motivation to get all the health benefits from the Pilates method. Here are some beginner Pilates tips to help you get a good Pilates workout:
Beginner Pilates Tip 1: Always keep a good body posture
Once you strengthen your abdominal muscles, another piece of the puzzle will find the correct place – the chest cavity. You need to develop your abdominal muscles not only to show great, but to succeed to keep the spine in a correct position.
The more the spine finds a correct position that does not impose a concentration effort, the more effective your whole body will be. The more the body will be more efficient, the more your efficiency and nervous system will increase.
Beginner Pilates Tip 2: Develop all your muscles
Another thing meant to refer to exercising small muscle groups over which you do not usually insist. Once you develop and strengthen them, you will adapt much better to the physical activity involving large important muscle groups, without feeling you are making an effort.
For example, a group of small muscles that support large muscles and most people have problems with the ankle. Ankle is one of the weakest joints of the body. Segment of the lower leg that connects the leg with foot, the ankle is supported by many muscles and ligaments which enable it to move. When you say "I sprained my ankle" the pain you feel may not come right from the ankle, but from one of the supporting muscles. The Pilates method will strengthen your muscles, ligaments and joints.
Soon, through the development of these muscles you will become aware that you will be able to move faster and will be able to lift heavier weights. Your entire “game” you will improve, and your involvement in sports you will get spectacular results, with the feeling that the whole body works as one unit.
Beginner Pilates Tip 3: Make constant and controlled movements
Remember that movements should always be “slow”, slow, but steady and controlled. Everything is connected. When you start to understand how motions continue each other, you can concentrate on the tempo of the movements as a whole. In Pilates there should be no jerky movements. Imagine that you move through wet cement, it prevents rapid movements. Focus on movements that drive your body from point A to point B. So you ca realize that there are thousands of points that are activated by the movement to get from A to B.
Beginner Pilates Tip 4: Warming-up is a must before doing Pilates exercises
If you do other forms of exercise (not Pilates) you can warm-up the body by performing some Pilates exercises. You will find that 10 or 15 Pilates exercises will not only prepare your body for the training that follows, but you will also give you better results. A game of tennis or training in a gym requires that your body is warmed up, with a certain amount of blood to irrigate your muscles.
Follow professional athletes examples. Before entering the field to start their proper training, they are already sweating, because they warmed-up. When you warm up, you remove 90% risk of injury. The Pilates method needs no warming-up. The first set of Pilates moves is designed to offer the necessary warm-up so that you can perform the entire series of exercises.
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February 22, 2010
Exercise & Fitness