You’ve probably heard of Pilates mat exercises and have probably heard that it works great, or you probably heard that it sucks because it’s so hard. Pilates mat exercises are the bare basics of the Pilates exercise invented by Joseph Pilates in Early 1910. First of all, your idea of Pilates must have included something with machines with springs and bands, but Pilates can also be done without machines, just a simple mat, which is called Pilates mat work, or simple Pilates mat.
Pilates Mat exercises have been considered beneficial, especially for those who want stronger abdominal muscles and a stronger core. By core, I mean the abs and the lower back. Pilates, as Joseph Pilates made it to be, is a low-intensity group of exercises that are supposed to strengthen your muscles. Usually, exercises are done with Pilates machines. Still, Pilates Mat exercises, however, have more challenging exercises simply because your body doesn’t have to rely on the support of the machine to do the work, making it shoulder the work that you are making it do. These results in various developments, more so on the abs than any part of the body, and we all know that that piece of fat under the navel is tough to get to.
The other benefit of a Pilates mat exercise is its sheer lack of exercise equipment. Unlike other Pilates exercises, this only requires you, as the name says, a Pilates mat. And you’re ready to go, of course, every Pilates exercise requires you some instructor, either a real one or a video, to tell you what to do, or if what you’re doing is correct, which brings us to the question of do I really need an instructor? And the answer is yes, every exercise needs an instructor, even something you might think as simple as a Pilates mat exercise won’t look very simple once you’re in a hospital bed. Pilates mat exercises can be very advanced bodywork, and doing it wrongly can, as with every type of workout, give you injuries. A Pilates mat instructor must be certified by a qualified school; make sure that your instructor has real qualifications before taking Pilates mat classes.
So when we touch on the issue of a Pilates mat instructor, we ask what would be best. A DVD or a real one? Essentially, most Pilates experts recommend a real instructor; an instructor can point out what you're are are doing wrong, position you correctly if you don’t have the right posture, andpersonalize the exercise you’re doing specifically for your body’s needs. However, there are many Pilates mat exercise videos out there that have been getting good reviews recently. Some people might have gone on to say that it’s as good as the real instructor, well to each his own, but my suggestion is, if you can afford a real instructor, then get one. That’s the problem with real instructors, though, the price, you’ll have to pay for classes monthly for that, but with a DVD, you’ll only have to buy it once, and then you can use it for years to come. What’s also good with a Pilates mat exercise DVD is its convenience; you won’t have to travel to the gym or class. You can just spread your mat on the floor, turn on the DVD, and then you’re good to go.
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