The 6 Principles of Pilates

What principles should we pay attention to when practicing Pilates? Let's take a look.

1. Breathing: Pilates, combined with proper breathing, can stimulate your abdominal muscles, making your movements smoother. Inhalation helps you adjust your posture, and exhalation will make you feel your spine extend further and your muscles lengthen, achieving a range of motion you haven't reached before.

2. Focus: Only with focus can you connect your mind and body, feeling the subtle differences in each movement. Using focus, posture will be continuously adjusted and improved, reducing injury and enhancing control and fluidity.

3. Control: Focus combined with breathing generates great control. Each movement requires control to begin, to reach a certain posture, and then to maintain that posture. Over time, muscles will strengthen and stretch, resulting in a more aesthetically pleasing physique.

4. Core: Emphasizing the use of "deep abdominal muscles," consciously contracting the muscles around the body's axis, correcting and maintaining their strength.

5. Accuracy: To achieve accuracy, you must bring your mind to the movement, concentrating and constantly adjusting. These subtle differences will give you drastically different experiences.

6. Fluidity: Maintain a consistent pace; avoid haphazardly throwing your body into a particular posture. Strive for fluidity between movements as well.