Can Pilates Help With Balance?
by Gerry
I don't feel as steady on my feet and am looking stooped over. Can Pilates exercises help with improving my balance? Jennifer's Response Hi Gerry and yeah, you betcha!(I'm from N.D.) Pilates can very definitely help with your balance! Pilates focuses on strengthening your core muscles, which improves your posture by holding the spine and shoulders in an upright position. Having a strong supportive core and better posture helps to keep your center of gravity, which is right around the navel well balanced. Pilates exercises also help to strengthen the muscles of our feet and ankles. Exercises to strengthen our feet and ankles are most important to our balance because that is our foundation or base of support. And, most of sensors to keep us upright are located in our feet and ankles. I just recently wrote a new ebook about exercises to strengthen and stretch the feet and ankles and also how to correct common foot problems. You can find the new Foot Ebook: Treat Your Feet here. The foot ebook also includes exercises specific to aging feet and balance such as how to perform proper knee bends, how to strengthen your foot arches, and toe taps to strengthen the most important balance muscle in the body. I have outlined some pages below for you to work on both your balance, rounded shoulders, and strengthening the core muscles with Pilates based exercises. Balance Exercises Using Pilates Principles. This page shows exercises that help with rounded shoulders. The article includes a few of the many exercises you can find in the Pilates Ebook to strengthen your core muscles and improve your posture.
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