can someone tell me how you do pilates?
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www.shape.com\nor\nwww.deniseaustin.com\nwill give you details.
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You should seriously consider Pilates. Pilates is a totaly body fitness system developed by Joseph Pilates decades ago. The system focuses on complete strength using your own body as resistence as well as flexibility and health.\n\nPilates has enjoyed a resurging popularity recently as dancers and other performers have found it to be effective and fast. Once it took hold it found it's way into classes in gyms all over the world.\n\nThere are devices used in some pilates classes but none of these are necessary. If you pick up some literature on the exercises taught by the creator and do them faithfully every day you will not even recognize your body in 3 months.
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T'ai Chi and Pilates are both taught verbally, and both will require you to get specific 'pointers' from the instructor while you are performing the movements.\n\n(They BOTH revolve around HOW you do the movements, and the FEELING you aim for; you can't just copy shapes.) \n\nHOWEVER, THAT SHOULDN'T BE AN OBSTACLE !\n\nThe Disability Discrimination Act places a responsibility on any provider to the public, to take reasonable steps towards inclusion. So you don't "need to hear instructions", as long as you can get them somehow.\n\nThe instructor might also be quite keen to find ways of widening the audience for the activity. Apart from any equality issues, it would add to their own set of teaching skills. For example, they might be able to refer you to a particular book, and work out a system of page and paragraph numbers that can be used as instructional 'cues' in the class. Or they might already have visual aids such as wallcharts, that can be used as a visual guide to the spoken cues.\n\nTry to have a word with the instructor, outside of the session times, either using your own skills, or with help from an interpreter. You can guage from the reaction you get whether it's going to be difficult, or if they want to be helpful. You may find that some BSL is already in use there, even if nobody in the Pilates session currently needs it.\n\nIf you draw a blank with the Gym, try the Evening Classes run by your Local Authority. Many of those include activities that you might not expect, such as Fencing & rock Climbing, as well as purely fitness-based sessions like those you have mentioned. Because their whole purpose and funding base revolves around the needs of the community, you should find you're 'pushing at an open door'.\n\nDon't hold back, and good luck with the class!
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That actually depends on what you're doing. You can do yoga and pilates everyday but weight training needs to have a day in between unless you're alternating body parts. ex: legs back bicep day 1 triceps chest shoulders day 2. Cardio can be done everyday as well but, it's a really good idea no matter what you're doing to take one day a week off!
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I haven't heard anything about Pilates having the same spiritual connotations as yoga.  I just know that Pilates focuses on your core.
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How fast you mean?  Pilates work well as does body sculpting.  Site below gives spot reduction exercises.  You can also print off the internet.
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I haven't done the 20 minute workout, but I do teach Pilates.  I can say that your stomach will get very strong very quickly with Pilates, as it targets the core(abs) muscles.  When I took the training, I couldn't do the exercises, now I can teach several classes a day, your ab muscles are quick to respond.  Hope this helps some...
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I hear nothing but good things about core strengthening on a pilates ball or exercise ball.  I've been swimming and that has toned my body up.  I'd research the core strengthening which will focus on your stomach and back.
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yoga and pilates (stretching). you can do them while watching tv and at home in your living room. just learn the stretches and work outs from a video and then do them 3 to 4 times a week.
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Lay flat on your back. \n\nLift your legs all the way up in the air (make sure you try to keep your knees straight)\n\nand then bring your legs back down making sure your legs are straight.\n\nRepeat this like 20 times, 3 sets.
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You definitely have to try a Pilates class or get a Pilates DVD or VHS and work out to it. I have been trying to get rid of my belly fat for the past 3 years (since my son was born). Since I started going to a pilates class in February twice a week I have noticed a HUGE difference in the shape of my stomach, butt and legs. I am 5'6" and started out at 130lbs and now weigh 121 lbs. I have lost 9 pounds in 3 months and I can wear clothes now that I wouldn't have a couple of months ago. I also try to watch what I eat and drink water, water, water!!! There is no magic pill or supplement that is going to make you get rid of your weight...you just have to be willing to work hard for it. Trust me..I wasted three years on all of those stupid little tricks that we all hear about and got nowhere. Stay focused and work hard!! Good Luck!!!
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Qu'est-ce que la méthode pilates ?      \n\nLa méthode pilates est une méthode de conditionnement corporel qui fonctionne différemment des autres techniques. En visant les muscles profonds posturaux, la méthode Pilates construit la force de l’intérieur vers l’extérieur, rééquilibrant le corps et le réalignant correctement. Cette méthode aide à refaçonner votre corps (plus long, mince et tonifié). \n\nAvantages de la méthode pilates :\n\n Votre posture sera améliorée, trouvant le bon équilibre entre force et souplesse, et c’est aussi une très bonne façon de dégager le stress et la tension. Le résultat est un corps équilibré qui est fort et souple, le ventre plat, les jambes équilibrées et un dos renforcé. Les effets sont plus que purement physiques, vous vous sentirez revitalisés, relâchés, confiants et plus souples - une nouvelle sensation de bien être. En plus de ça, les exercices sont très amusants et agréables à pratiquer!\n\nComment pratiquer la méthode pilates ?\n\n Vous pouvez pratiquer la méthode pilates :\n\nAu sol avec petit matériel (ballon, rubber band ou circle) \nSur des appareils spécialement conçus pour travailler de façon douce et progressive (reformer, wunda chair, spine corrector...).  \nChaque exercice est construit autour des huit éléments clefs :  Relaxation, Respiration, Concentration, Mouvements contrôlés, Alignement, Coordination, Centrage, Endurance\n\nAvec la formule d'abonnement "Formule Pila'Fit" vous pourrez pratiquer la méthode pilates au sol, ainsi que les cours de fitness et de remise en forme de façon illimitée.  \n\nLa méthode pilates pour qui ?\n\n La méthode Pilates convient à tout public ; des athlètes cherchant à améliorer leur performance et éviter le risque de blessure aux personnes qui n’ont jamais pratiqué de sport.  Son approche lente et contrôlée donne des résultats à long terme – et cette pratique est particulièrement recommandée pour les personnes souffrant de problèmes de dos, mais également à : \n\nceux qui veulent améliorer leur forme, posture et apparence, modeler leur corps. \nathlètes, danseurs, tennismens, golfeurs... \npersonnes voulant évacuer les tensions du dos, des trapèzes... \npersonnes en préparation physique \ndébutants \nretraités \nceux qui cherchent à prévenir, traiter l’ostéoporose \nceux qui souffrent de maladies liées au stress \nréhabilitation suite à une blessure \nEn somme pour tous ! \nLa méthode pilates sur appareils:\n\nConnus de longue date par de nombreuses stars hollywoodiennes et personnalités françaises (le secret de leur silhouette vient de là...), les cours sur appareils permettent d'effectuer un travail personnalisé en travaillant de façon progressive et précise.  Une arme fatale pour affiner votre silhouette! \n  \nLes appareils permettent entre autre : \n   d'effectuer un travail personnalisé en fonction de vos objectifs \n   de guider les mouvements de pilates de façon progressive\n   de gagner en intensité pour aller plus loin \n   de travailler plus en profondeur \n   de travailler de façon plus précise \n   de se sentir calme et détendu : une nouvelle sensation de bien-être! \nUne fois que vous les aurez essayés, vous ne pourrez plus vous en passer! Nous proposons 2 formules d'abonnement :\n\n-La Formule Bien-Etre: Permet de combiner la méthode  pilates sur tapis avec des séances de pilates sur appareils. Permet également de faire du fitness et de vous détendre grâce au sauna.\n\n-La Formule Premier : Pilates sur appareils en personal training. En savoir plus... \n\n \n\nQui était Joseph Pilates?\n\nLa Méthode a été développée par Joseph Pilates, né en 1880 en Allemagne. Enfant fragile, il s’est tourné vers des programmes de forme physique pour améliorer son image corporelle. Il a étudié beaucoup de disciplines différentes et a formulé un système qui fonctionnait pour son propre corp
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I have been to see a personal trainer in the past, the following leg exercises are good (I live in the UK, so weather not much better down here!)\n\n1) For inner thighs. Lie on your back, and raise your legs above the ground (about 45 degrees). Clutch your inner thighs with your hands, and pull your legs slowly apart, then push together again. You should feel it work your inner thighs. Do as many as you can. \n\n2) For outer thighs. Lie on your side, propping your head up with your hand, and fold the leg nearest the floor in a bending position. Then raise the top leg up and down slowly. Repeat on other side.\n\n3) For calves and thighs - Stand up, and space your legs shoulder width apart. Turn the feet outwards, and slowly squat down and then up again.\n\nHope this helps.
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I would not recommend any pilates reformer for home use.  There are several great models out there at reasonable prices but here is what i've found from several years of pilates training.\n\nUnless you have taken many years of private lessons on the reformer and/or are certified in pilates, you can actually do more harm than good trying to train yourself at home without a supervising instructor present.\n\nIt is extremely easy to do the exercises with improper form - even if it feels like you are doing them correctly - then you will keep repeating this improper form unless a trained eye is there to correct you.  And that can cause some problems.  At the very least, it will render the exercise ineffective if nothing else.\n\nIf you are really bent on doing pilates - and I do highly recommend it as an excellent form of exercise as well as an excellent form of physical therapy - then I would suggest you find some group reformer classes taught by a certified professional in a setting with their equipement, not yours.  \n\nThe group reformer classes will cut down dramatically on cost yet still give you the awesome reformer sessions as opposed to the not-so-awesome pilates mat classes.\n\ngood luck to you!
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PILATES-I AM 53 AND HAVE A 12 PACK.
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It's not that easy to calculate how many calories you burn in yoga and Pilates since the intensity of the class depends on the kind of exercises being done and the strength level of the class participants.\n\nIn general, a 130-pound person would burn approximately 260 calories an hour for a light to moderate Pilates mat-class. "Intense" Pilates would burn approximately 346 calories.\nYour weight affects how many calories you burn (the more you weigh, the more calories you burn), so use the following formula to make it more accurate: Divide the number of calories burned by 130 pounds. Multiply the answer by your weight in pounds. \n\nFor example, divide 260 calories by 130 pounds. The answer is 2 calories per pound. Multiply that by 110 pounds. The answer is 220 calories.\n\nSince you said 20 minutes then divide your answer by 3 since the calculation above is for an hour.\n\n\nTan-yuh this is how you would figure out yours - if you weighed 192 - its 2 calories per pound per hour\n\nso its 384 for an hour --- 384 *.33 because you worked out for 20 minutes which is .33 of an hour.\n\nThis equals 128 calories burnes for a 20 minutes pilates tape.\n\nPersonally I would say try to work your way up (at your own pace of course) to an hour long... 384 calories is a lot for one workout and thats how much you would burn for an hour.
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You can't target weight loss to any specific region of your body. When you lose weight, in general, you will lose from your face, down. Doing Pilates is very beneficial, however, and, if you stick with it, will help in the weight loss process, as well as build muscle. Don't worry about your legs getting "too big" with muscle. They won't get "too big", and a muscular body is healthier than an out of shape, overweight one.