Sport // Pilates
Pilates
Introduction
Physical exercise is an important routine for adults in order to improve their fitness level while efficiently maintaining their energy level and stamina on a daily basis. For a person who is actively involved in a healthy lifestyle, physical exercise is one of the most important routine to ensure that the health and well-being of adults becomes productive and proactive. Pilates is practiced worldwide in particular to the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, but now expanding to other countries around the world due to its influence having a healthy lifestyle. In this case, this paper aims to discuss about the significance of pilates, which play an important routine practiced by independent individuals who wants to improve their health and well-being.
Pilates is a fitness system being developed by a group of physical fitness experts in the early stages of the 20th century. This is a process that involves muscle control or contrology, allowing the psychomotor function of the body to improve its coordination. The practice of pilates is intended for individuals suffering from lower back pain so that their posture will not experience degradation whenever they are suffering from a severe pain. There are at least more than 42 million individuals who are currently practicing pilates around the world who wants to improve the posture of their body as well as to increase their agility level. Although pilates has not been confirmed to be an effective solution to improve a certain medical illness, there are still many individuals who still advocate this medical practice. This is because some still believe that there is still a significant impact provided by this particular practice as a way to improve a certain disease. Examples that are believed by many to be treated are immobility, paralysis, depression, anxiety, and stressful issues that promotes congestion.
There are principles being considered in order to apply whenever a person is doing a pilates routine. One issue is breathing, which allow an individual to ensure that the way they breath promotes their blood circulation. Concentration principle allow a person’s psychomotor activity to promote the proper coordination of their muscle movement. Having a sense of control ensures that the physiological, mental, psychomotor, and cognitive development becomes enhanced and improved after every routine is applied. The flow is the principle that allow every movements to secure a certain routine to be executed by the practitioner to improve muscle coordination. The postural alignment by allowing muscle imbalances to improve and optimize proper muscle alignment in every movement. The precision is to allow movements to be perfect and precise in each routine, allowing energetic efforts to become applicable and to improve the economy of movement. In addition, the relaxation activity enhances mental coordination and correct muscle firing patterns to promote a calm environment.
Pilates can be applied on a regular basis for as long as there is a gradual improvement of both physical and physiological integrity of an individua or group of people who wants to improve their healthy lifestyle. Due to an uncertain ethical and legal application to confirm its efficiency and reliability to the public, several government institutions around the world has been investigating the efficiency and accuracy of pilates if it really helps to improve a person’s health. In this case, it has been learned that pilates is one of the most promising health care applications that seeks to improve the health of the person as well as their mental well-being. The reason behind is that pilates is now commonly practiced in fitness centers around the world to allow health conscious individuals to improve physical well-being according to Yamato, et al (2015).
Reference
Yamato TP, Maher CG, Saragiotto BT, Hancock MJ, Ostelo RW, Cabral CM, Menezes Costa LC, Costa LO (2015). “Pilates for low back pain”. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 7: CD010265.
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