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Pilates is a body conditioning routine that may help build flexibility, muscle strength, and endurance in the legs, abdominals, arms, hips, and back. It puts emphasis on spinal and pelvic alignment.

Pilates Workout For Dummies

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I've actually seen and tried many different exercise videos.

From the somewhat comical Richard Simmons Sweatin' To The Oldies, to professional and licensed workout expert videos, to even trying out the animated Care Bears Exercise Show when I was younger. Out of all of these I am more than impressed to find a style of exercise I highly recommend for anyone which is called PILATES.

Wikipedia description is as follows:

Pilates (/pɪˈl'ːteɪz/; German: [piˈlaːtəs]) is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates, and popular in many countries, including Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom. As of 2005, there were 11 million people practicing the discipline regularly and 14,000 instructors in the United States alone.

Pilates called his method "Contrology" (from "control" and Greek -λογία, -logia).

Pilates is a body conditioning routine that may help build flexibility, muscle strength, and endurance in the legs, abdominals, arms, hips, and back. It puts emphasis on spinal and pelvic alignment, breathing, and developing a strong core or center, and improving coordination and balance. Pilates' system allows for different exercises to be modified in range of difficulty from beginning to advanced. Intensity can be increased over time as the body conditions and adapts to the exercises.

Pilates improves muscle tone, balances musculature, supports correct posture, and teaches to move with ease and grace. There is an increasing number of studies which are showing the benefits of Pilates in the rehab population. It is useful for improving balance, lumbar stabilization and flexibility, lower back pain, and pelvic floor dysfunction.

What =I= have found is I honestly feel GOOD all during the day after I have done these exercises in the morning. And they are not at all strenuous or demanding as some seem to be. Anyone, and I mean just about ANYONE can do them.

As long as you can stand up, turn your toes outward slightly, breathe in your nose and out your mouth, and reach in the air and forward for repetitions, you are certainly ready for Pilates.

My and my Dad would do these just prior to our outside walks in the morning and he commented on how much he enjoyed them as well because they were so easy to follow and we could always take it at our own pace.

Take them as far as you like, or just for a bit if you've not exercised in a-while. Whichever and whatever methods work best for you.

I hope you will consider adding a regular course of fitness and exercise to your mornings before you begin your busy days, both for continued strength of body and mind and for years to come.

This particular PILATES video is one of my favorites. Exercise marker is 2:42.
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