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Definition:: "Pilates"

Pilates is a series of exercises that focuses on strengthening the body's core through precise movements and emphasis on form over intensity. It was developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates to help injured athletes safely return to exercise. Regular Pilates practice provides benefits like improved flexibility, strength, posture, balance, and stress reduction. Key exercises target the abdominal muscles, lower back, hips and buttocks.

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Pilates is a series of exercises that focuses on strengthening the body's core through precise movements and emphasis on form over intensity. It was developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates to help injured athletes safely return to exercise. Regular Pilates practice provides benefits like improved flexibility, strength, posture, balance, and stress reduction. Key exercises target the abdominal muscles, lower back, hips and buttocks.

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Ralph Wendell M.

Sarong March 4, 2019


BSEd-1B Physical Education 2

“PILATES”

Definition:
Pilates is similar to yoga but emphasizes your body’s core — the abdomen, oblique, lower back,
inner and outer thigh, butts, and so on. For this reason, Pilates develops much of what exercisers need —
strength, flexibility, muscular endurance, coordination, balance, and good posture — with a much lower
chance of injury than with other forms of exercise. The discipline emphasizes correct form instead of
going for the burn. With so many exercise variations and progressions, you may have a hard time getting
bored with Pilates.
Pilates (or the Pilates method) is a series of about 500 exercises inspired by calisthenics, yoga
and ballet. Pilates lengthens and stretches all the major muscle groups in the body in a balanced fashion.
Pilates explained In the 1920s, physical trainer Joseph Pilates introduced Pilates into America as
a way to help injured athletes and dancers safely return to exercise and maintain their fitness. Since then,
Pilates has been adapted to suit people in the general community. Pilates can be an aerobic and non-
aerobic form of exercise. It requires concentration and focus, because you move your body through
precise ranges of motion.

Importance:
The Pilates method is taught to suit each person and exercises are regularly re-evaluated to
ensure they are appropriate for that person. It improves flexibility, strength, balance and body awareness.
Due to the individual attention, this method can suit everybody from elite athletes to people with limited
mobility, pregnant women and people with low fitness levels.
Health benefits of Pilates include: improved flexibility increased muscle strength and tone,
particularly of your abdominal muscles, lower back, hips and buttocks (the ‘core muscles’ of your body)
balanced muscular strength on both sides of your body enhanced muscular control of your back and
limbs improved stabilization of your spine improved posture rehabilitation or prevention of injuries related
to muscle imbalances improved physical coordination and balance relaxation of your shoulders, neck and
upper back safe rehabilitation of joint and spinal injuries prevention of musculoskeletal injuries increased
lung capacity and circulation through deep breathing improved concentration increased body awareness
stress management and relaxation.

Exercise:

“PILATES CURL” “CLASSIC PILATES HUNDRED”


“ARM WORKOUT” “SINGLE STRAIGHT LEG STRECH”

“DOUBLE LEG STRECH” “SINGLE LEG CIRCLE”

“CRIS CROSS” “SCISSOR KICK”


“SCISSOR KICK”

“SWIMMING” “TEASER”

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