Pilates Basics Origins - Flexibility is Within Your Reach
By Jeff Foster
Pilates basics (it's pronounced as Puh-lah-teez) is a health exercise craze you may have already heard or read much about. It's among the latest trend in physical activity and thousands of fitness buffs and the not-so-buffs have joined the bandwagon.
One obvious difference that this exercise has over other forms of fitness is that it gives a person the ability to gain muscular strength without bulking up. Therefore, this type of exercise basically favors the dancers, the gymnasts as well as other athletes or fitness enthusiasts who have the need to gain muscular strength without necessarily adding weight.
Here is a rundown of a brief history of pilates basics.
This well-respected program was created by one Joseph Pilates, a nurse who worked in England during the First World War. He developed an exercise regimen for those bedridden patients so that they would be able to regain strength. Basically, he attached springs to the mattresses of the patient's bed so that they could push and pull -- creating resistance which put them one step closer to regaining their strength.
Joseph Pilates moved to New York in 1926 and brought his program with him to the delight of dancers and athletes who took to the exercise with passion and excitement. Initially, it was the injured dancers and athletes who obtained benefit from the program, but it wasn't long before others heard of the benefits also. Even today, a pilates exercise program is among the preferred method of rehabilitating injured athletes, along with providing an exercise for preventing injury.
Pilates basics would later become more in-depth as exercises shifted away from mattresses and springs and more towards weights and resistance. Still, the program emphasized quality rather than quantity. It wasn't so much the exercise repetitions as much as the way the repetitions are performed.
The latest developments of the program have evolved to omit the need for equipment or machines. Now, the exercise can simply be performed on mats. With the exercise program being safe and very convenient, anyone can do it! It develops strength, balance, coordination and flexibility.
From such simple origins, pilates basics have gained worldwide popularity. People all around the globe and of many different ages are all enjoying the benefits of pilates. It is changing lives and changing the way people view exercise. So really, now I only have one question for you. It is not a question of if you pilates or not, but rather a question of HOW do you pilates?
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