Doing reformer can help improve and maintain your overall physical health and fitness. This leads to greater strength, flexibility and balance. This in turn leads to helping improve your posture, movement and even your mental health.
Reformer Pilates benefits your health and fitness in multiple ways, but some of the main ones are –
A full body workout – through the specific and individualised movements that are performed on the reformer, it creates a full body workout. Through the subtle changes in the spring tension on the reformer global strengthening of the whole body happens, not just target the large muscle movers of the body, but also activating those smaller stabilising muscles that are often missed. Through the unilateral exercises done during a workout imbalances and uneven weakness can be corrected.
Strengthens and tones muscles – reformer pilates allows the body to move through a full range of movements while working on strengthening muscles. This dynamic way of exercises, using the reformers spring to create resistance contacts the muscles to create long, lean and toned muscles. This way of exercising not only targets the large muscles groups but also the smaller stabilising muscles.
Low impact but high intensity - Reformer Pilates is ideal, under professional guidance, for anyone suffering and recovering from an injury. The springs and ropes are specifically designed to enable you to work in the horizontal plane rather than weight bearing, reducing the load through your body. The low impact allows for repetitive movements to occur which in turn tones and strengthens the injured areas to speed recovery.
Improves core and posture - while you work on the peripheral postural muscles during a workout, many of the exercises target the core muscles. Ensuring your core is strong is essential for ideal posture.
Improves mental health - Since its creation, a lot of information focuses on the benefits of Reformer Pilates on increasing muscle strength, toning, improving flexibility and posture. Research continues to emerge on the positive impacts that Reformer Pilates has on Mental Health. From using the steadiness of your breath to find mindfulness in movement to stress management and relaxation. As a from of exercise, Reformer Pilates can reduce stress hormones like cortisol and increase endorphins, your body’s feel-good chemicals, giving you a natural mood boost.
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