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Benefits of Pilates
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Health Benefits of Pilates

• Improves flexibility
• Increases muscle strength and tone
• Improves breathing
• Improves posture
• Teaches control both physically and mentally
• Promotes body awareness
• Conditions the whole body

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Improves flexibility
Doing stretches and exercises on the reformer
helps elongate your muscles and increase your
range of motion
Increases muscle strength and tone
Your abdominal muscles, lower back, hips and
buttocks (the core muscles of your body) all
remain contracted and engaged during a pilates
workout. 
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Improves breathing
Breathing in Pilates, and the more importantly,
what is the correct breathing pattern is a highly
contested topic among health and fitness
professionals
Improves posture
It is the focus on posture and the control of
body position that underpins why Pilates is great
for improving posture and giving long
lasting relief from postural pains and strains.
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Teaches control both physically and mentally

• Pilates there are also great mind and soul
  rewards from doing Pilates such as
• Increase your sense of mastery, which can help
  if you don't feel in control of your life or mood
• Release muscle tension through stretching and
  mobilising
• Boost those feel-good endorphins.
• Sleep better at night having expended energ

Promotes body awareness
This helps you become better able to relate those
habits to the aches and pains and injuries you
have or have had in the past, so that you can
alleviate or even prevent future aches and pains.
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Tilak road Pune 411030.020 24476091 / 91
9850840202

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