📌 Pilates helps build strength, endurance, improve flexibility, & increase balance & coordination

📌Pilates helps prevent injuries while improving posture

📌Pilates is adaptable for different levels, from rehabilitative & basic beginner levels to advanced strength training for more challenging workouts, including athletic specificity training

📌Pilates is recommended & prescribed for people with health conditions such as arthritis & diabetes

📌Pilates helps reduce stress & anxiety while improving mood & motivation

📌Pilates can help improve body awareness, body image, & cognitive functioning

📌Pilates improves sleep patterns & the quality of sleep

📌Pilates helps relieve tension in  the shoulders, back, & legs, while boosting metabolism

📌Research shows Pilates improves the immune system function, especially in older adults

📌Studies indicate Pilates has considerable improvements in cardiovascular health, increased lung capacity, & remarkably increased circulation

📌Research shows a regular Pilates practice improves overall fitness & body composition

📌Pilates helps to reduce chronic back pain while helping to increase & improve energy levels

📌Pilates engages multiple muscle groups simultaneously which provide a holistic approach to strength training

📌The trunk musculature, pelvic floor muscles & hip stabilizer muscles, including the abdominals & spinal postural muscles, are particularly emphasized during a Pilates session, leading to improved stability, balance, & overall muscular strength

📌The gluteus medius muscles are considered trunk & postural muscles critical to the health & stability of the vertebral column & Pilates has been shown to build these muscles with respect to strength, flexibility, & endurance

📌They are critical to reduction of back pain regardless of back pathology &/or injury