Five Key Benefits of Pilates for Athletes
Pilates has many benefits for athletes and adding in a class a week can really complement your other sports and hobbies.
Here are 5 key benefits of Pilates for athletes:
Improves core strength. Pilates is known for helping to improve core strength and let’s face it who doesn’t want to be stronger for their sport. By ‘core’ I am talking about your ‘trunk’, the area between your shoulders and your hips, and how strong you are to be able to support your spine, move your arms and legs effectively and generate more power output and ultimately you move faster.
Helping to reduce injury. Pilates helps to reduce injury risk by working the body in all the different planes of motion which can help to reduce muscle imbalances and therefore the risk of injury. Sports tend to be a repetitive motion, and this can cause the parts we don’t move to get weak. This is where Pilates comes, in helping you to rebalance the body and to strengthen the areas that get forgotten.
Improve your posture - Pilates can help to get you standing taller and give you more flexibility in your back and shoulders. Being able to stand up taller will translate into your training enabling you to keep better form and produce a stronger power output.
Improves mobility - Being more mobile in your hips, shoulders and back can hugely benefit your performance as you will be able to maintain better form for longer. Pilates exercises help to increase and sustain your mobility.
Enhanced balance and stability - By doing Pilates regularly you will become more aware of your body and learn how to have better balance and stability. A lot of the Pilates exercises are single sided and this challenges your balance and increases your ability to be stable.
So now you know about the top 5 benefits of Pilates for Athletes why not book yourself into a class.
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