Sometimes we look in the mirror and judge ourselves what we want to change in our body.
After that we start planning diets and how hard we should push to lose weight fast and “look better”.
But if you think in a different way and choose to every time we move we learn how to improve our shape and brain?
Deeper muscle activation means a better function of the nervous system.
The brain sends an impulse through the spinal cord to muscle fibers to learn how to voluntary engage certain muscles (like deep core activation in Pilates) that might have been asleep for a long time. When we understand where the muscles need to be working from and how to use them we can finally train wisely and more efficiently.
A healthy nervous system means better communication between your brain and other parts of your body as well as the release of stress-fighting and mood-boosting hormones.
Always focus on the six principles that a good Pilates should be based upon are:
- Centering – Bringing the focus to the center of your body, which can teach you how to use your core muscles to generate athletic or forceful movements.
- Concentration – Bringing full attention to each exercise and learning how to engage in high-quality focus.
- Control – Performing a movement with control and fluidity, which can teach you how to move more gracefully.
- Precision – Having self-awareness of your body’s tiny movements and knowing the alignment of one body part relative to other body parts and how your body is moving through space — which can help with athleticism.
- Breath – Using a very full breath in your exercises and thinking of your lungs as a bellows which strongly pump air fully in and out of your body, which you can use in other activities such as stress relief or sports.
- Flow – Performing your movements in a flowing, graceful manner, which can help you become a better dancer or athlete, or even simply improve your everyday posture.
Pilates will make you more creative and open-minded to experience life fully and come up with inventive ways to deal with life’s challenges.
Exercise and mindfulness meditation each have proven to improve creativity. When you combine the two in a Pilates workout you get even better results for your mind and your body.
