This exercise method continues to win over practitioners around the world.
Pilates is recognized as a movement building technique, that is, it works with the aim of improving posture, balance, strength and flexibility of the body. A fact that doesn’t stop you from asking questions about its benefits, for example: does Pilates strengthen muscles?
Pilates strengthens muscles based on the practitioner’s response
“The exercise technique based on the theory developed by Joseph Pilates combines increased muscle tone, associated with stretching, flexibility in movements and consequent strengthening of the muscles”, the general coordinator of the Physiotherapy fitness sector at Rede Hospital Casa responded exclusively to Sport Life , Luiz Guglielmo Coppolecchio.
In this sense, Luiz Guilherme then underlined that it is not feasible to determine a training load for those who aim to strengthen muscles through Pilates. The reason is that training varies from person to person, and there is also a need for individual, morphological and biomechanical analyzes so that exercises can be prescribed directly proportional to each individual need.
“But the increase in greater muscle strength is linked to the frequency of training, the regularity and the load capacity of each person. The result is practically immediate, especially for sedentary people or with some mobility limitations, which make it impossible for person perform Pilates exercises immediately improves breathing, tone and flexibility.
Additions on muscle strengthening in pilates
When asked if there is any veto for this Pilates work with those living with a herniated disc, this professional stated that there is no contraindication given the effectiveness of this proposal for the treatment or even prevention of pathologies related to the spine vertebral.
“Increasing mobility and flexibility, as well as strength and muscle tone in the stabilizing muscles of the spine, repositions the vertebrae and, as a result, decompresses the discs, generating significant relief from symptoms,” he said.
For those with this goal, Luiz also suggested weight training, swimming, functional exercises and CrossFit, i.e. all the modalities mentioned are capable of developing muscle strengthening potential.
“Each modality has its own specifics. Bodybuilding has a greater immediate gain in muscle strength, but does not work on body awareness and breathing, as well as the flexibility that comes from Pilates classes. Each modality will have a greater function based on the needs of the practitioner and desires.”, he warned.
Is it possible to replace pilates with weight training?
“No. Pilates is a type of therapeutic exercise, which has body awareness, respiratory awareness and stretching as its philosophical basis. This means that people with various pathologies can practice it without major contraindications. Bodybuilding, on the other hand, is characterized by a pulley system or direct weight lifting. Which generates more instant and impactful results on an aesthetic level, but does not use the philosophical foundations of pilates, therefore having greater restrictions in general”, concluded Luiz Guilherme Coppolecchio.
Given
So far, no research has been conducted to reveal the number of Pilates practitioners in Brazil. What prevails is that 288,000,000 searches for pilates were carried out on the “Google” search engine in 2021.
Source: Terra
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