You’ve probably heard of Pilates mat exercises, and have probably heard
that it works great, or you probably heard that it sucks because it’s
so hard. Pilates mat exercises, are the bare basics of the Pilates
exercise invented by Joseph Pilates in the Early 1910. First of all,
your idea of Pilates must have included something with machines that
have springs and bands, but Pilates can also be done without machines,
just a simple mat, and this is called Pilates mat work, or simple
Pilates mat.
Pilates Mat exercises have been considered very beneficial, especially
for those who want stronger abdominal muscles and a stronger core. By
core I mean the abs and the lower back. Pilates, as Joseph Pilates made
it to be, is a low intensity groups of exercises that supposed to
strengthen your muscles. Usually, exercises are done with Pilates
machines, but Pilates Mat exercises however, have more challenging
exercises simply because your body doesn’t have to rely on the support
of the machine to do the work, making it shoulder the work that you are
making it do. These results in a variety of developments, more so, on
the abs than any part of the body, and we all know that that piece of
fat under the navel is really hard to get to.
The other benefit of a Pilates mat exercise is its sheer lack of
exercise equipment. Unlike other Pilates exercises, this only requires
you, as the name says, a Pilates mat. And you’re ready to go, of course
every Pilates exercise requires you some sort of instructor, either a
real one, or a video, to tell you what to do, or if what you’re doing
is correct, which brings us to the question of do I really need an
instructor? And the answer is yes, every exercise needs an instructor,
even something you might think as simple as a Pilates mat exercise
won’t look very simple once you’re in a hospital bed. Pilates mat
exercises can be very advanced body work, and doing it wrongly can as
with every type of work out, give you injuries. A Pilates mat
instructor has to be certified by a qualified school make sure that
your instructor has real qualifications before you take Pilates mat
classes.
So when we touch the issue of a Pilates mat instructor, we ask what
would be best. A DVD or a real one? Essentially, most Pilates experts
recommend a real instructor, an instructor can point out what your
doing wrong, can position you correctly if you don’t have the right
posture, and can personalize the exercise you’re doing specifically for
your body’s needs. However, there are lots of Pilates mat exercise
videos out there that have been getting good reviews recently. Some
people might have gone on to saying that it’s as good as the real
instructor, well to each his own, but my suggestion is, if you can
afford a real instructor, then get one. That’s the problem with real
instructors though, the price, you’ll have to pay for classes monthly
for that, but with a DVD, you’ll only have to buy it once and then you
can use it for years to come. What’s also good with a Pilates mat
exercise DVD is its convenience, you won’t have to travel to the gym or
to class you can just spread your mat on the floor, turn on the DVD and
the you’re good to go.
