The main difference between Yoga and Pilates is that Pilates can be done on specific Pilates machines apart from a mat. Aslo, Pilates is less spiritual and has no chanting or OMing components in its workout. Pilates focus more on the stabilising muscle groups and helps you obtain a good posture, while working on balance, endurance, breathing, stability and control.
Joseph Pilates is the founder of the Pilates method. Pilates is a method of physical fitness that focus on the core of the body. Joseph Pilates was born in Mönchengladbach, Germany and died in New York, USA. His parents name were Heinrich and Helena Pilates. Together with Joesph’s wife Clara they started to teach Pilates in 1926 at a gym in New York. It became popular among dancers as a practice in order to prevent injuries but also in order to improve techniques. Joseph also used the Pilates method during the Second World War when he worked at Isle Of Man where he served at the hospital working with people unable to walk. Today Pilates has evolved and continue to grow, as a form of workout integrating modern anatomical and bio-mechanical thinking.
Joseph Pilates was born in Möchengladbach close to Dusseldof in Germany in 1880. In 1912 he moved to England where he practiced self-defense classes as well as boxing. After World War 1 Joseph Pilates moved back to Germany, now to the city of Hamburg. In Hamburg. In 1925 Joseph Pilates immigrated to New York, United States where he met Clara who he soon married. Joseph and Clara Pilates lived and taught Pilates in New York until his death in 1967.
Pilates is a sustainable workout method focusing on core strength, stability, body control, endurance and balance. Pilates can be practice on a mat or on specific Pilates machines. The intensity of the workout varies and depends on which level you are at. People with back problems and joint problems tend to favour the workout. But also athletes practice Pilates for body control, strength, improve their technique and mobility.
Pilates is a sustainable form of workout method that you can practice from a young age up until an old age. Pilates is known for strengthening your core and improve posture and balance. Pilates is usually well received by everyone from athletes to people with back and joint issues, who are looking to improve body control. Pilates consists in exercices and modifications paying attention to your ability to move and your mobility goal.
A reformer is a specific Pilates machine that is designed to perform Pilates exerices that will challenge your body, strength, stabiity and control. The reformer machine is designed so that you can workout, lying down, sitting or standing. The reformer has springs with tention and is designed so that you work against gravity which gives you a feel of really lenghtening and reaching when doing the Pilates repetoire on a reformer.
Pilates is widely appreciated as a form of workout if you have back pain. But as with everything, you need to consult with your doctor and Pilates instructor if having back pain before you do any kind of workout. Many times it is important to move and stregthen up core and the entire body when having back problems. Pilates is great as you can work with various machines that you can adjust depengin on your injury and still being able to get a workout.
Pilates usually gives you long lean muscles. In order to loose weight there may be better form of high intentisity training such as running. However building muscles is also an important part in weight loss. As there are many factors playing a part in weight loss such as, food intake and overall psychological well being it is not fair to suggest soly one thing in order to loose weight in a holistic and sustainable way.
STOTT Pilates is a full education, that many instructors decide to do, in order to become a certified Pilates instructor. However, there are other certifications, like BASI, Peak Pilates, Pure Body and more. They are all regulated programs including anatomy training and an understanding of how the body moves, in order to be bale to teach the method safely to clients.
According to a Wells’s research the core-strengthening perks of Pilates may also ease pain and improve daily life for people suffering from chronic low-back pain. Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting an estimated 540 million people, according to the Lancet. Pilates can do wonder to both your mental focus and back pain and although there is less research on back pain and yoga it is always a good idea to consult with your doctor.
Many gyms do have Pilates. Usually mat Pilates and neccesarly not the Pilates machines. The Pilates machines are usually more often seen in a classic Pilates studio. It can be argued that the classical Pilates studios have more equipments and teachers who are fully certified with many years of education in Pilates, thus understand Pilates and the body more in depth compared to the gym. Hence, Pilates may be better than gym.