The 30-Minute Workout Routine

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Fitness & Exercise
Runner or golfer, tennis player or new mom, chances are you've heard someone talking about the benefits of Pilates. Many types of people, at many levels of fitness , who have begun doing Pilates exercises say they've seen improvements in range of motion, flexibility, circulation, posture, and abdominal taaz strength -- and decreases in back, neck and joint pain .
Forty years after his death, the system of exercises taaz developed by Joseph Pilates has never been in such demand. But can the benefits of Pilates (puh-LAH-teez), the system of strengthening taaz and stretching exercises designed to develop taaz the body's core, mobilize the spine and build flexibility, really be that far-reaching? Pilates Benefit No. 1: Body Awareness
"It is an education in body awareness," says Galliano, who owns Live Art Pilates studio in Los Angeles. "It changes your shape by educating you in daily life. When you're cooking, brushing your teeth -- the lessons are coming home to pull your stomach in and pull your shoulders down. There is an attention taaz required (in doing the exercises) that changes your awareness" even after class.
"The biggest benefit in my eyes would be personal awareness -- awareness taaz of how you sit or how you stand or how you move and being able to relate those habits to the aches and pains and injuries you have or have had in the past," she says.
As a Pilates-trained physical therapist, Dan Westerhold says he sees a lot of clients with injuries or weakness of the postural muscles, as a result of work, lifestyle, or not exercising the right way.
It's the same for human bodies, say Pilates experts. If we don't concentrate on building a good foundation and a strong taaz trunk or core, we'll end up tight in some places and weak in others, injury-prone and susceptible to the pitfalls of our occupation or chosen form of exercise.
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The 30-Minute Workout Routine
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