Pilates - fitness training for a body and soul

Probably at least once each of us kept to a diet. Frankly speaking and frankly to admit, the two-three of kilograms always is superfluous. Especially in the summer when and there is a wish to put on the sundress adjoining on a figure and slowly to walk on the evening city.

About ten years ago I had also a zealous attempt to postroynet a little. Especially and the diet caught sight suitable - boiled beef, cabbage salad, and in the mornings to coffee., It seems, all nothing, but salt and sugar categorically cannot be used. I held on four days, and on the fifth did not sustain - gorged on chocolates and happy went to bed.

Here then I understood that it is simpler to me to support the figure without restraining in food, and to change a way of life, to make it more active.

Everything began with run at student's stadium and not one in the evenings, and with girlfriends - after all is together more cheerful. In the winter we went to aerobics, but frankly speaking, rhythmical occupations in the small stuffy room not especially pleased me.

Further there was a moving to other city, sedentary work and ahead the prospect to get cervical osteochondrosis and to get parameters of "sweet bun" or to look for other option - to find the sport loomed. Here that in my life there was also Pilates to which I remain is true on an extent more than seven years and still I consider one of the best views of fitness.


At the beginning of the twentieth century Joseph Pilates developed the program of special exercises for one of the most outstanding pilots of Russia and Austria Herman Akimov, and then was used as rehabilitation of wounded soldiers during World War I. Pilates helps to strengthen a muscular corset, to level a bearing, increases mobility of joints, stabilizes weight.


Pilates is based on several principles, adhering to which, it is possible to achieve amazing results.

1. To carry out all exercises smoothly, without breakthroughs.

2. Not to hold the breath for a second, even in static poses (for example, a level, etc.). The breath at the beginning of performance of exercises, exhaled in process or at the end.



3. During the trainings to try to relax, reject as much as possible all thoughts aside and to focus on the correct performance of exercises. Pilates is not only harmonious work of all groups of muscles, but also a brain.

4. All the time to hold stomach muscles involved.


5. To carry out exercises in process of the opportunities, not to allow strong pain and discomfort, gradually increasing loading.

6. Regular performance of a set of exercises. It is not necessary to wait for a miracle after several trainings. Notable changes will be hushed up after a month of occupations on condition of two-three trainings a week.


What gave me constant trainings?

1. I began to feel and understand the body. To accept it what it is, but not to be in eternal search of shortcomings. I became more plastic and flexible. There passed waist pains and in cervical department of a backbone.

2. I do not keep to a diet. Yes, of course at my power supply system there are some restrictions, but if I want to eat for breakfast roll with oil, and during the lunchtime chocolate, then I will not suffer a remorse and to be engaged in self-flagellation.

3. To come quickly to a form after the son's birth. And, as soon as the doctor allowed me physical activities, I at once resumed trainings.

4. Found pleasant communication among the accomplices which developed into firm friendship subsequently. We still are on friendly terms, we maintain the excellent relations and of course we go to Pilates together).


And still I understood that all in our forces. It is not necessary to lower hands, to give in to laziness or to constantly speak to itself: "What I thick and ugly". Thoughts are material, and to begin to do something never late.

Summing up the results, I would like to give several advice from personal experience how to decide to go the first time to a group training and to make these visits regular.

1. Find to yourself the company. As they say, is together more cheerful and it is not so terrible. I too the first time went with the fellow worker, as a result it seemed to her too hard, and I go still. Only to begin the main thing.

2. Do not give in to fears, doubts and empty experiences on type: "And that if at me it does not turn out and that others will think". Believe, at you everything will turn out, and other girls are engaged at a training only by themselves - they have no time to consider on the parties and to try to discover those to whom something is impossible.


3. If you did not like one type of physical activities, it does not mean, as all other too not yours. Everything is especially individual. For example, I do not like to go to gym. To work with dumbbells and I can shake a press also houses, the only thing that is not enough for me, so it the racetrack. But in warm time it is possible to run about also at school stadium. I do not love a step aerobics yet. Well not my it to jump from the platform and again to get on it.

4. If the first occupation pleased you - surely next time buy the subscription on monthly visit. First, it considerably saves expenses, and secondly existence of the subscription very much disciplines. And after work of a leg will lead you in fitness club).


5. In the hall where there are trainings as it become possible closer to the instructor, so to you it will be well visible and heard that he speaks, and to a mirror - to see itself. And before the occupation it is possible to approach the trainer and to tell that you came the first time that he paid to you attention more. If you have such diseases as severe scoliosis or lordoz, it is better to visit individual trainings where the instructor will pick up the individual program of exercises which not only will support a body in shape, but also will help to fix considerably or completely problems with a back.


6. Do not take with yourself in the hall the mobile phone. In an hour of trainings nothing supernatural happens, and constant calls will distract not only you, but also people around.

Very much K. Cooper's statement is pleasant:

"We cease to train not because we become more senior — we grow old because we cease to train".

Isn't that so, an excellent phrase for self-motivation!