Pilates 101
What do Salma Hayek, Sofia Vergara and Monica Belluci have in common? Well, other than sexy, sultry curves and toned thighs?
The answer is pilates.
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This fitness sensation is breaking fitness boundaries and transforming the lives (and bodies) of people all over the world.
So where did pilates originate?
During World War 1, Joseph Pilates was interned as an 'enemy alien' with some other German nationals and during his internment, he refined and improved his fitness ideas to include resistance training and taught his other internees his ideas. At the camp he attached resistance bands and helped bedridden patients to exercise and keep active using resistance. Over the years, his students developed his teaching and opened their own fitness studios naming them after their mentor and teacher. Today, those same teachings and ideas of Joseph Pilates have been studied, improved and implemented and gave become the best way to tone your thighs and get a flat, lean stomach.
Some of the additional 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 and
- enhanced muscular control of your back and limbs.
So if you want Sofia Vergara's sultry figure or Salma Hayek's sultry physique, start doing 3 hours of pilates every week and you'll have the body of the next bond girl.
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