subject: How To Get Great Posture Using Pilates At Home [print this page] The human body is in perfect balance when correct posture can be achieved and maintained utilising minimal effort where the muscles work in harmony to support the natural alignment of the spine. In contrast, a body out of balance will be prone to injury and discomfort. Perfect balance and as a result, perfect posture, is achieved by benefiting from learning how to do Pilates at home with simple exercise techniques.
The situation today is that most adults have conditioned their body over a period of time to adopt an entirely incorrect sitting, standing or walking posture which is the catalyst for muscle and joint pain and discomfort particularly centred on the back and spinal area. And there are acknowledged benefits by adopting and maintaining a correct posture position that is much more than the everyday task of sitting up or standing straight.
By ensuring a correct posture, through using Pilates techniques, muscle and joint problems relating to areas from the feet to the knees, hips and particularly the back, shoulder & neck are not just eradicated but the source of the problem can be fixed. In addition, the effects of gravity can be addressed thus counteracting one of the physical features of growing older. It is important to ensure that the muscles are used in their correct manner to enable optimum height to be achieved when seated or standing as a reduction in height that is connected with older age can be addressed.
By striving for good posture, the body's overall health and feeling of wellbeing is improved through greater core muscles strength and flexibility. A benefit that is rarely acknowledged is that if proper posture is adopted whilst walking this is, in fact, an exercise workout in itself through ensuring the muscles are working at their optimum efficiency within the role that they were designed to do.
When exercises for optimum body posture are undertaken, it won't be long before the correct body position, and what that feels like, will soon become the default position and thus when sitting, standing or walking the body will subconsciously adopt that defined position. Unfortunately there will be times when the former posture position will be adopted yet this is easy to detect as, amazingly, this old way of sitting, standing or walking won't have the correct feel even though it could have been the very positions used for years previously.
By learning how to do Pilates at home, the ideal conditioning program can be used in the quest for improved health through correct posture. It is easily undertaken at your time convenience without the requirement for expensive exercise equipment. It provides an easily undertaken program for complete body muscle toning including improved flexibility and strength with the results being to ensure the adoption of correct body posture without the need to think about it.
