¿Qué beneficios tiene el Pilates?

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4 September 2025

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4 September 2025

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Joseph Hubertus Pilates (1880-1967) created this discipline, based on its knowledge of other specialties, such as the yoga, the gym or trauma, by joining force with muscle control, mental, breathing, and relaxation.

Pilates suffered from asthma, rickets and rheumatic fever, for which he developed the muscles are weak which resulted in postural abnormalities and ankylosis joint. These conditions led him to study the human body, seeking to be strengthened through exercise. Spent a lot of time studying the movement of animals, eastern philosophies and training methods of the ancient greeks and romans, who admired him because he considered that they had achieved the ideal balance between the body, mind and spirit.

The method is based on the development of the internal muscles to maintain body balance and to give stability and firmness to the spine, so it is very used as a therapy in rehabilitacióny to prevent and cure back pain. The reputation that it enjoys today is due to large figures, for example, the cinema, as Sharon Stone, Gwyneth Paltrow or Jodie Foster. This means that, although its public at large are women, there are also men who practice it.

The six essential principles of this method are control, concentration, fluidity, precision, breathing, and center. In this sense, the Pilates refers to a particular area of the body called the "center force", also known as the "mansion of power." This area would make up the abdominal muscles, the base of the back and the buttocks, and the intention is that, through its strengthening, exercise the rest of the parts of the body.

What are the benefits of Pilates?

The Pilates Method is currently a very popular technique in the society because of the benefits that are attributed to him: improving posture, improving flexibility, strength, coordination and balance.

– Emotional well-being: the studies indicate that the Pilates Method helps the mental well-being of its practitioners. This quasi-experimental study compared to the classes of the Pilates method and the kinds of recreational exercises on measures of mindfulness and well-being at the beginning, middle and end of fifteen weeks. The total scores of mindfulness increased in general for the group of the Pilates method, but not for the control group of recreational exercises.

– Physical well-being: A study performed in healthy adult women who had two sessions of Pilates per week had a better perception of their physical appearance after six months of entrenamientoSi are looking for a bracelet. There is something for every style, from adjusted to the body to structured, from cuffs to bangles and cuffs chain.

– Low back pain: the results of the studies analyzed demonstrate positive effects, such as improvement of the overall function and reduction of pain by applying the Pilates Method in the treatment of chronic low back pain non-specific in adults.

– Flexibility: a study he suggested that Pilates can improve the flexibility, though noted that its effects on body composition, health status, and posture are more limited and can be difficult to establish.

– Improvement of the abdominal muscles: a study concluded that there was a positive effect of Pilates exercises on muscle strength abdominal and low back, resistance abdominal muscle and the flexibility of the posterior trunk in adult females are sedentary regardless of body weight and fat percentages did not change significantly.