what is pilates in sports?
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Pilates (pronounced pul-LAH-teez) is a popular exercise regimen that uses special stretches and machines. As a quick browse through our Pilates category confirms, it's a big industry: books, exercise classes, equipment sales, etc. It's also quite popular with rich and famous folks like Minnie Driver, Madonna, and Julia Roberts. \nPilates is named after it's creator, Joseph H. Pilates, who was born in Germany in 1880. As a German intern in England during World War I, he designed a number of ingenious exercise machines using old hospital beds and springs. In 1926, he moved to New York with his wife and opened his own body conditioning studio. \n\nEmphasizing flexibility and overall strength over body bulk, Pilates quickly became popular with dancers like Martha Graham and George Balanchine. More and more Pilates studios popped up, and by 1964, The Herald Tribune observed:\n\nIn dance classes around the United States, hundreds of young students limber up daily with an exercise they know as "pilates" without knowing that the word has a capital "P" and a living, right-breathing namesake.\nJoseph died in 1968 at the ripe old age of 87. He must have been on to something.
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use pilates it works for your whole body
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Crunches, sit ups, balance ball, yoga, pilates. You can find videos and books on this at your local public library.
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pilates works wonders for weight loss AND metabolism boost... plus it tones as you move...\n\nbottom line is- exercise is your best bet\n\nsusan
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Hi, have you heard of the foam roller? Its a pilates prop that can help with IT band tightness. Its very painful to do but works wonders. You can buy it at a good sports store, or a pilates studio can help you learn how to use it.
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pilates or cardio\nweights are generally done better later on in the day
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http://www.easyvigour.net.nz/fitness/h_Free_Pilates_Exercises.htm
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winsor polates is good exercise.\n\nhttp://www.winsorpilates.com/
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tennis, swimming, golf, ski, surf, horseriding, golf. + stretching/dancing\ni do.
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do some medicine ball excersises.
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Pilates!!\nThe best exercise ever
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Pilates is pretty good to tone muscle and trim a waistline, it mostly uses lifting weights with arms, stretching, lifting your legs up and down, and other exercises using your own body weight, like situps, crunches, etc. A lot of it is done sitting in a chair or lying on an exercise mat. If it doesn't hurt to bend your knee, I'd reccommend Pilates.\n\nAnother good low impact exercise is swimming. It might hurt to flail your knee around and bend it a lot, so just keep using steady up and down motions with your feet and see if you could practice swimming on your back - it gives you the buoyancy of floating and so your feet can relax and you can just move your arms around. \n\nYet another suggestion I have is an exercise ball - if you have fat in your stomach, then as long as you have the strength to stand up for a while, you can lean with your back on a large ball and do crunches on it. The exercise ball will keep you balanced but it gives you enough rolling around and slipperiness to where you really have to use your abs to keep yourself on it.\n\nA final suggestion I have is a better diet. I had a friend who suffered a bad ankle injury and her ankle was twisted sideways and she now walks very peculiarly and cannot run or do any exercises with her feet as well. She gained close to 50 pounds after about two years because she did not adjust her diet despite how sedentary and inactive her life became. I'd cut down on sweets and sodas and try to eat mostly lean meats like chicken breast (grilled, with the fat trimmed off) and some lean fish, grilled or baked, maybe 90%fat free ground beef, the expensive kind, use that in a hearty vegetable-laden chili. Eat more fiber to keep your digestive system running like clockwork - I know that Jewel Osco sells these high fiber tortillas, they're great with some salsa and lettuce and browned lean ground beef, kind of a healthier burrito. Avoid simple sugars, white airfluffed American  type breads, etc
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Yes, what panda_undercover said. Also, becoming a personal fitness trainer, pilates coach, massage therapist, etc. Kinesiology helps people who deal with those who are involved with movement on a heavy-duty basis to avoid overuse injuries or to get back in shape after experiencing them.
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there is a pretty good exercise I do for football. You lay on your back and put your legs in the air(just dangle them). Then you do 30 cruches. Take your time don't rush! Then with your legs still in the air (you keep them up the entire time) you do 30 leg lifts. They are where you but your hands under your but and shoot your legs out straight. Then you with your back down lift your legds (still straight) up and down (thats one)You do it 30 times. Then yes with your legs still in the air you do 30 seconds of bicicles. That when you take your legs in the air and bend them.Then you start pedeling them like you are riding s bike. At the same time you put your hands on your head and do half cruches form side to side. Then 30 more leg lifts. Remember kepp your legs up back down take your time and don't give up. Dont wait in between the different exercises. do it 6 days a week.
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pilates focuses on the entire body.  maybe check out some classes at your health club or there are also some good videos you can buy as well.\n\nby the way.......thanks for chosing my answer as the best one on the gisele bundshen question......hope you are on your way to a healthy life style not only physically, but emotionally and spirtually.  Good luck.
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Pilates - you don't even need to go to the gym to do them, pilates is a great way to tone and firm muscles without adding bulk - you will get lean muscles mass. There may be a class offered in your area or there are tons of videos that you could get: Denise Austin, Crunch, 10 Minute Solution, Mari Windsor, etc.
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Cardio and resistance training exercises, like Pilate's. Doing more reps. with less weight. The idea is to get LONG LEAN muscle without adding bulk. Also, FULL range of motion with the resistance training, so you are working the entire muscle rather that just parts of it.