Is Pilates Enough? 🤷‍♂️

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In our fast-paced world, maintaining good health and wellbeing is paramount. In this video I discuss the question: "Is Pilates Enough?".
Pilates is known for its controlled and precise movements, but is it the complete solution to your fitness needs? We discuss how Pilates can be a valuable part of your fitness routine, but it must be aligned with guideline health advice as well as being led by your own goals!
Central to your fitness journey is the importance of setting specific goals. Whether you aim for weight loss, muscle gain, improved running performance, or muscle development, tailoring your approach to your unique aspirations is key.
For me, I began Pilates with back pain in mind, I was already very active, playing rugby, lifting weights, running, and competing in BJJ. But back pain stopped me doing all those things. Pilates enabled me to get back to them by resolving my back issues.
Weight loss is a common objective. Pilates can aid in calorie burning and lean muscle building, but it's just one piece of the weight loss puzzle. Achieving your ideal weight also requires a balanced diet and a holistic wellness approach, which we'll touch upon.
Muscle gain is a significant fitness goal. While Pilates may not be synonymous with bulging muscles, it can enhance muscle tone, strength, and endurance, contributing to a more sculpted physique. It will aid your mobility and improve proprioception.
If you're a running enthusiast, Pilates can improve core strength, flexibility, posture, and aid injury prevention, ultimately enhancing your running performance and stamina.
For those focused on muscle development, Pilates integrated with other strength-training exercises is powerful, striking a balance to support muscle growth.
In summary, "Is Pilates Enough?" The answer is likely NO, should you do it, probably YES - when incorporated into a holistic approach, aligned with health guidelines, and customized to your personal fitness goals.
Have you recently set specific fitness goals? We'd love to hear about them and how Pilates fits into your fitness journey in the comments.
In this video I explain why I became an instructor, how I beat back pain and walked away from a 14 year career in financial services to coach instead, as it helped me that much:
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[@mrsbootsworkouts]

I love pilates, the slower pace allows for more control

[@pilatesguy]

Yes, there are so many benefits to that controlled movement, and also having control over the parts you want to keep still 🙌 thanks for commenting 🙂

[@UnboxingChristianity]

What do you do yourself to workout besides pilates? If you dont mind. Thanks. Ive had 3 lessons of pilates as a bloke and love it.

[@pilatesguy]

That's great. Keep it going 👏 Aside from Pilates and mobility work I follow variations of the Stronglifts 5x5 and Madcow 5x5. All compound lifts which strengthen your whole body. Aside from this at the moment some running too.

[@brendanpelletier]

I have been doing HIT bodybuilding and lifting consistently for the past 2-3 years and I know that with the way I feel I know I need Pilates mixed in with my schedule. Do you have an email to contact?

[@pilatesguy]

Thanks for watching!
That's great activity. I find Pilates is now the oil that keeps things running, as well as the glue that holds me together.
Sure, feel free to email: [e-mail] or WhatsApp [phone]

[@billking8843]

Pilates was hugely helpful for me to recover from shoulder problems. But then I persisted for over 10 years with doing Pilates and not enough heavy resistance training. My more recent Pilates instructor simultaneously fat shamed me and told me I could never do weightlifting again. When I returned to heavy weight lifting, I had LESS back and neck pain and managed to lose 12kg. IMHO Pilates is not enough, even more high intensity Pilates workouts and everyone should be encouraged to do as much challenging resistance training as they can safely manage.

[@pilatesguy]

Hey Bill, great to hear you've got on top of your back pain and also that you've incorporated strength training.
I also totally agree everyone should build in strength training of some form in to their training. Interestingly with me, I was doing all the right things including weight training, and had back pain, beginning Pilates resolved this for me.
And I believe what I learned about movement from Pilates improved my weight training which has been brilliant since, I am now surpassing my 23 year old self at 38.
So we always have to consider different perspectives. Some people will never lift weights, don't enjoy it. And the best exercise I suppose, is the exercise that gets done!
Well done on your journey, I'm glad to hear Pilates contributed to your recovery, and sorry to hear about your previous Pilates instructor, sounds a right idiot!

[@billking8843]

@@pilatesguy Pilates is hugely important for building stabilizing muscles but also for building body awareness and coordinated recruitment of muscles for whatever activities you are engaged in. Where some physiotherapists (physical therapists in the US) go wrong is to keep their clients in 'rehabilitation mode' for too long, when the clients should be increasing the range of activities they are involved in. And IMHO, everybody needs to be doing challenging resistance training unless they are rehabilitating. Long term avoidance/ abstinence/ whatever the word is from resistance training worsens the weight control/ metabolic health problems most of he population experiences.

[@pilatesguy]

@billking8843 yes and there is of course the mobility element to differing levels depending on the instructor. There are many things I can do with my body now at 38 I could not do in my early 20s before Injuries and back issues. Multiple surgeries and dislocation from rugby and rhr back issues, Pilates brought me through that and beyond. And my weight training now is also beyond where I was when looking at the compound lifts.
And I do agree with you on the resistance training, but not everyone is going to do it. There's of course tonnes of benefit to adopting progressive weight training.
I think it is becoming necessary due to our lifestyles in the modern world. Due to living longer, being more sedentary, having less physical work and life demands, plus the scary level of decline n testosterone in men over time!

[@billking8843]

@@pilatesguy Rugby fed me as a kid (my mum worked for Victoria Rugby Union) but I'm glad I never tried to play it!
BTW: I'm 62 and looking to be able to do a full pancake and also to deadlift 100kg for 5 reps by the end of the year. Nobody should impose fitness limits on themselves just because they are getting on a bit.

[@pilatesguy]

@billking8843 absolutely! It gets more important to push yourself on as you age. Great work and keep it going! 10 years ago I was advised never to deadlift again and I'm working toward my goal of 2-2.5x my bodyweight (maybe more 🤷‍♂️)!