The Pilates workouts can be practiced on a Pilates Mat as well as on pilates-machines, and many of you wonder whether one is preferable to the other.
The Pilates mat work was designed by Joseph Plates so you could do Pilates anywhere any time at no cost. But in order to do that you need to be in good shape or you may hurt yourself
Joseph Pilates developed several Pilates-Machines to so certified pilates practitioners could strengthen / rehab Pilates patients so they could be able to do the Pilates Mat work properly (unassisted).
With Pilates-machines, whether the Pilates Reformer, Pilates Cadillac, Pilates Chair, you benefit from a kind of assistance thanks to the tinsel strength of the springs they use, the cylinders’ rolling motion the straps and levers,
On the mat you are left to your own devices and it is up to you to stay in alignment and use your body weight while lifting, lengthening and shortening your appendages to determine the effort required to perform the original 32 exercises correctly.
In theory, Pilates -machine practice assists / allows beginners who are not toned enough to start practicing Pilates until they reach a sufficient level to practice on mat. They can also be used to resist movement inorder to make the exercises a difficult as you would ever want them to be.
The choice of technique depends most of all on your ability, your goals and the Pilates workout your certified Pilates Teacher designs for you.
If mat work is considered more difficult, machines offer, for example, a very effective way to focus on certain muscles, ease the task of muscle education and re-education following an injury, or enable the most advanced students to increase the difficulty of exercises to a level that challenge, rehab and enhance the performance world class athletes from every sport.
As a conclusion, one can say that both techniques have their strengths, and in an ideal world, one would follow one machine and two mat classes per week.
The Pilates Difference:
“In 10 Sessions You Will Feel the Difference, in 20 You Will See the Difference, and in 30 You’ll Have a Whole New Body”
