I am a swimmer and I was wondering what the best pilates stretches were for dryland at home.  Help?
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if you can, get a med ball that weighs six or eight pounds. look online for exercises that will work your shoulders and your abs. working your shoulders will improve your freestyle, since your arms will be strong enough to sustain a good posture for a longer time and a good core will keep your body in a streamlined position while swimming. it will also help with flipturns.
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It depends on what you are looking for. Cardio - walking, running aerobic tapes.  Strength - bodyweight exercises such as push ups, lunges, chair dips can help.  Flexibility - yoga/pilates tapes are great.
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I've got the same problem, so I hear you. I've been told Pilates works, so I'm going to give it a shot. Good luck!
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Swim, swim, swim. Practice your rescue strokes (side stroke, elementary back, heads-up free & heads-up breast stroke) as well as your regular swim strokes. Practice treading water without using your hands and practice submerging underwater. Running on the sand is great. If you weight train, cut it out until you're done with your certification. Good luck.
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winsor polates is good exercise.\n\nhttp://www.winsorpilates.com/
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yoga, pilates, any exercise that allows you to use your own body weight as the exercise equipment. less stress for your joints.
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Bodhi (Point Break)\n\nhttp://www.bodysurf-xtrem.com/
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This site has great stretches.  I hope it helps you.\n\nhttp://www.workoutsforwomen.com/stretch.asp
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my friend goes running and swimming and hes losing his...but run long distances and swim laps instead of just playing around...front crawl (freestyle) and back crawl (backstroke) and definitely breast stroke are probably the best swimming methods
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You can go to Ross or Marshalls and pick up a really cheap exercise tape. They have fun ones like belly-dancing, or intense cardio work-outs. Choose one that you think you will actually enjoy doing everyday. I bought a two-set of Pilates DVDs for only $7! It includes 8, 20 minute workouts. Hope this helps!...and good luck!\n:)
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Okay check into Bikram yoga.  It works miracles!  You will see results within one week.  If you can't handle the heat try Winsor Pilates.  You can do the videos at home and then take your babies jogging or on brisk walks.
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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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Go to the library and check out Stretching by Bob Anderson. It's a classic in the field.\n\n\nIf you library doesn't have a copy, you should be able to find it at any good bookstore.\n\n\nIf you go to Amazon.com, you can take a look at some sample pages.\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0936070226/002-6922508-3538437
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I would definitely say Pilates. This exercise uses gravity to tone your muscles. One for the legs is:  Lay on your back, flat. Lift one leg in the air and make the letter P. That is just one example. I believe that Pilates is one of the best ways to TONE muscles, Not build
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Hi there..I think  you mean PILATES...........very good too.\nLike all things you must use personal discipline and common sense.....but at least it works.\nGood luck.
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Swimming is exersize!  Any movement in a pool is good!  Just try simple arobics in the pool!  Good luck!
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I have tried both at some point at local fitness centers in my area.  I like pilates alot better than I like yoga.  Yoga tends to focus more on flexibility, meditation, and holding certain poses or movements.  It's good for some, but I got bored with it. (Not to mention that none of my goals in life were to eventually become a contortionist) Pilates increases flexibility (although not to the extent that yoga does), but the exercises are more fast-paced and focus on core stregnth which worked better for me.  I went to amazon.com and ran a search on pilates dvds and chose one based on reviews and what I wanted out of a workout dvd.  You could do the same if you wanted to get into it.  I have been doing pilates for a couple months now, and it has worked for me.  I'm toning areas that I hadn't previously given much thought to in a traditional workout. (like my back for example)