What are the Pilates fitness methods?

In real life, there are many people who do Pilates for fitness. Pilates is a kind of exercise, but this kind of Pilates exercise has great benefits for the body. Pilates is not only a way of exercise for fitness, but also a way of losing weight. Pilates is also a very good exercise, and its fitness effect on the body is very prominent. When doing Pilates for fitness, you should also pay attention to a reasonable diet to help yourself get auxiliary weight loss effects. So what are the Pilates fitness methods?

Raise your arms

This exercise incorporates simple movements into breathing exercises. When your arms are raised, your lungs will be easily filled with gas, which not only enhances lung function, but also increases the oxygen content in the blood, which is very beneficial for strengthening your body. Note: Avoid shrugging your shoulders during this exercise.

1) Sit cross-legged on the mat, keep your body straight, stretch your arms to the sides, palms facing up, and fingertips slightly off the mat. Throughout the exercise, exhale through your mouth.

2) Inhale, slowly raise your arms from both sides of the body over your head, with your palms facing each other; while raising your arms, keep your shoulders down.

3) Exhale, slowly lower both arms while rotating your palms downward, until both arms fall until they are level with your shoulders.

4) Inhale and turn your palms upward. Repeat the above exercises 3 to 5 times.

Cat pose

After studying human evolution and fetal development, Pilates designed many exercise methods that imitate quadrupeds. The following cat pose exercise not only enhances the stability of the spine, but also makes it more flexible. During the practice, you must pay special attention to breathing control and the rhythm and smoothness of the spine during movement.

The above content introduces the Pilates fitness method. If you use Pilates to prepare for fitness, you can get the fitness effect. When doing Pilates for fitness, you must warm up first. The method used when doing Pilates exercises needs to be reasonable, and the postures chosen must also be done in a formal way. There are many other ways to exercise in daily life, and everyone can try it.