Friday, September 16, 2011

Pilates bad for your body posture correction

Through Pilates training, not only to strengthen the deep muscles and increase flexibility, but also to help back pain, neck pain or muscle strain people ease the pain. In addition, Pilates can prevent injury and correct poor posture. Most of the injured spinal posture in addition to the error, the transversus abdominis and paraspinal muscle weakness is one reason, mainly because the two parts of the muscle to maintain our stability and maintain good spinal posture. In addition, the leg muscle injuries, hamstring and hip flexibility, poor muscle weakness are among the factors. The following are advanced Pilates moves strengthen muscle action is called "Advanced push-ups", can strengthen the arm muscles, including chest, upper back muscle and transverse abdominal muscles, while improving hamstring flexibility. The first step: with feet hip width apart standing, tighten the abdominal muscles, inhale, then exhale bend forward body, relax the shoulders and arms. Step two: bent forward, palms forward, the toes on the front. The third step: breathing, wandering hands forward, keeping the abdominal muscles tightened, arms straight (but not super-stretch) with the head and trunk in a straight line, legs straight (not super-stretch). Step four: two hands to move forward until the palms just below the shoulder. From the side, head, shoulders, buttocks and legs into a straight line, while the arm straight. Step five: breath, and then bent, upper body down until the entire body in the horizontal plane, and then inhale the arms straight. Repeat 5 times, then exhale up the pike, breathing his hands go back to the starting position back.

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