Health Tip: What are pilates?
Wicked Local (blog)
Pilates involves training the muscles to improve posture and alignment. This exercise heightens body awareness and encourages you to think about how everyday movements are performed. Movements vary from slow and controlled to fast-paced, which improves …

Ease Sore Muscles After Physical Activity
The Daily Sleepy Hollow
Whether you choose yoga, Pilates or stretches of your own, here's a bonus: Dr. Andrew Weil says muscles contain stretch receptors, which can improve your mood. Drink water: Water is the ultimate rehydrator. Avoid caffeine and alcohol because they …

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From the Fit Community: Can You Really Make Your Muscles Longer and Leaner?
FitSugar.com (blog)
You've probably heard it numerous times before — a workout that promises to give you longer, leaner muscles (we've often heard this said about PIlates or ballet-based training methods) . . . so can this really be true? Can a muscle truly become longer …

Deceptively easy dance moves with big benefits for the body
Business Daily Africa
By WANGUI MAINA (email the author) You are more likely to find Jean Ngethi lying on the floor in a studio at Muthaiga Shopping Centre, Nairobi, showing her clients how to strengthen their muscles to achieve balance during one of her Pilates classes. …

Pilates Upper Back Strengtheners for Posture
HealthNews
Pilates works all the muscles in the body by stretching and strengthening simultaneously. This balance is the key to keeping the upper back strong and limber, and pain free. Pilates is an integrated, holistic method. In the Pilates system muscles are …
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Prenatal Pilates Assists in Pain-Free Pregnancy
Patch.com
1), moms-to-be can get their muscles in shape with a new prenatal Pilates mat series class offered at The Marsh in Minnetonka. Lesley Koehnan, a Pilates instructor from Minnetonka, believes it is extremely important for expecting mothers to keep their …

Pilates for Pink scheduled at Thomson Y
McDuffie Mirror
The Pilates reformer is an apparatus focusing on the alignment and range of motion within the muscles using the core for stability. All levels are welcome. Instructors for the class are Tyler Knox and Corie Johnson. There are six sessions currently …

Pilates for a Complete Hip Workout
International Business Times AU
Pilates is great for shaping your body, balancing your muscles and making you more flexible. It gives attention to your stabilizing muscles, which are often ignored by other exercise styles. It does some strengthening, especially when it comes to your …

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Castanet.net
Pilates is known for its focus on the muscles and the movements that strengthen the stabilizers of the spine – core strengthening. Pilates teaches the body how to create an ergonomically correct posture and how to maintain that posture so that the body …

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How to Get Long and Lean Muscles
FitSugar.com
Many people tout Pilates as one of the best ways to get that long and lean look. Even super toned Serena Williams said she was able to change her body by incorporating Pilates into her routine: “I saw results within a week,” she's said. …
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