Losing weight with Pilates under professional help

Qualified trainers can guide people who want to lose weight at Pilates

06/06/2012

Pilates can also help you lose weight as a whole body workout. But this should be done under the guidance of a qualified trainer, emphasized the expert Uschi Moriabadi, author of numerous Pilates books and lecturer at the German University for Prevention and Health Management (DHfPG) in Saarbrücken.

Losing weight with Pilates: Uschi Moriabadi, a certified sports teacher, explained how Pilates can fight overweight and why it requires the guidance of qualified trainers. The basics of the Pilates form controlled movements and respiratory processes, which should contribute to an improved posture. Through the interaction of concentration, control, movement precision, centering, movement flow, relaxation and breathing, certain muscle groups are specifically strengthened, said the expert. This not only improves posture, but also reduces existing overweight.

Qualified Pilates instruction helps avoid postural and movement errors
The guidance of a qualified trainer is important, according to Uschi Moriabadi, to ensure that the principles of Pilates are optimally implemented and that no postural or movement errors occur. To lose weight with Pilates, therefore, qualified professionals should be consulted. The content of the training is described by the lecturer DHfPG „slow, controlled movements and conscious breathing techniques“, Regular training significantly improves the body's perception, trains the muscles in the middle of the body and optimizes the posture in the long term. According to Moriabadi, the practitioners get to know their overweight-burdened body and feel a change in a short time. This does not mean, „that the pounds tumble automatically“, but the upright posture, better body perception and tension is often the beginning of the „Change to the ideal weight“, explained the expert.

Entry into the daily Pilates exercises
The book author also describes a simple introduction to the Pilates exercises that can be performed in everyday life. „Take the first step by sitting in the front of the chair“, feet firmly on the ground, back straight, shoulders back down, sternum up front and head up towards the ceiling. Based on this attitude „Take the arms in prayer position in front of the body, take a deep breath in the chest and turn the upper body with the head when exhaling to the right“, so the instructions of the expert. The stomach is flat and the pelvic floor muscles are tense upwards. „With inhalation, turn fluidly back to center, with exhalation continue to the left side“, Moriabadi describes the continuation of the exercise. The graduate sports teacher emphasized that after only three to four turns a difference could be felt.

Pilates has been practiced for more than 100 years
Pilates was invented as a form of full-body training to strengthen the muscles end of the 19th century by the native of Mönchengladbach Joseph Hubert Pilates. Even in the lifetime of the inventor Pilates found in America numerous supporters, not least because the dancers of the New York City Ballet trained in the studio of Joseph Hubert Pilates. However, because the term Pilates is not protected, many fitness studios in Germany offer their very own version of the Pilates exercises today. A relatively reliable quality feature here is the membership of the trainers in the German Pilates Association e.V. (fp)

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