Attending pilates classes is an important investment in your physical and mental health. Physically, you can look forward to increased flexibility and range of motion that aids daily tasks and athletic performance. Mentally, pilates gives you an outlet to release stress and tension, improve your well-being and your overall relationship with your mind and body.  

Let’s take an in-depth look at how pilates exercises can benefit your mental and physical health. 

The Physical Benefits of Pilates

Enhanced Range of Motion

Consistent practice of pilates exercises pays off in the form of improved flexibility. The constant gentle and healthy stretching movements allows for an increased range of motion. 

Pilates helps in daily life by enabling you to perform daily activities with greater ease and reduced risk of injuries. 

Reduced Muscle Pain 

Pilates is a fantastic way to relieve aches and pain in your muscles. Pilates exercises are known to release muscle tension, resulting in a reduction of pain and stiffness. 

Looking for a natural way to speed up post-workout recovery? Your heightened flexibility makes for a quicker and easier path for blood and nutrients to flow to your muscles, helping you heal faster.  

Enhanced Athletic Performance 

The increased flexibility that comes from practising pilates exercises can have tremendous benefits for anyone who partakes in athletic activities, such as professional athletes, casual players, and fitness enthusiasts. 

Enhanced flexibility gives you the ability to move in and out of challenging positions easier, achieve greater results when stretching, and allows you to perform intense movement with reduced risk of injury. 

The Mental Benefits of Pilates

Pilates For Stress Relief And Relaxation

Modern day life can be incredibly challenging, taking its toll on your mental health in the form of unhealthy stress. Pilates gives you the opportunity to unwind and release all of your built-up tension, allowing you to return to a place of peace and harmony. 

Mood Boosting Movements

Pilates offers you a graceful and natural way to cheer yourself up when you’re having a bad day. All mindful movements in pilates release ‘feel good’ chemicals called endorphins, which lift your mood and give you a sense of well-being and euphoria. 

Mind-Body Connection In Pilates

Pilates enables a harmonious mind-body connection through carefully-selected, gentle and controlled movements combined with mindful breathing techniques.

The union of physicality and mental awareness allows you to foster a mutually beneficial relationship between mind and body, resulting in a heightened and wholesome sense of balance and well-being.  

Ready to Give Pilates a Try? 

If you live in Surrey and are close to the Cobham, Hersham, Esher, Weybridge or Molesey areas, you can simply follow this link to sign up for your first class and find out more about Pilates and Dore Health.

Contact Us

Feel free to contact us using the information below:

Email: debbie@dorehealth.co.uk 

Telephone: Debbie – 07949 051778