Which is better to lose weight, Pilates or Yoga?
Yoga: When practicing yoga, you will move to different postures, which will increase calorie consumption, not only reduce subcutaneous fat consumption, but also massage all parts of the body to promote metabolism.
Pilates: Compared with yoga, Pilates combines more stretching exercises and the frequency of activities is accelerated. You need to resist more resistance and burn more calories when you practice.
Pilates moves faster than yoga, and the muscle feeling is obviously improved during practice, so the feeling of losing weight and fat is more obvious than yoga, and you can exercise fat better.
Weight loss effect of Pilates
Pilates is frequently replaced, which can burn more calories and fat and improve human metabolism. Moreover, Pilates has many movements, which can exercise all parts of the human body. Moreover, compared with yoga, Pilates can exercise muscles, improve muscle control, especially deep muscles, and make muscles more elastic.
Pilates practice attention
Pilates practice depends largely on the flexibility of joints, so not everyone can practice. People with sports injuries or diseases, such as arthritis, muscle strain and ligament injury, are advised not to practice Pilates.
Pilates is different from yoga.
1, different ways of breathing
Pilates inhales through the nose and exhales through the mouth, using abdominal breathing, yoga inhales through the nose and exhales through the nose, mostly using abdominal breathing, chest breathing or complete breathing;
2. Different asana exercises.
Pilates poses pay more attention to strength training and muscle control, which has a good effect on muscle exercise in all parts, while yoga poses are more about flexibility, extensibility and balance.
3. Different emphases
Pilates pays attention to the training of core muscles and emphasizes the exercise of body muscles and functions, while yoga pays attention to the combination of body and mind, which has more flexibility and stretching exercises than Pilates.
4, the effect is different
Pilates is more effective in reducing fat and shaping, and has a certain effect on rehabilitation training, while yoga is more effective in body flexibility exercise and makes the body more symmetrical;
5. Different places of birth
Pilates was invented by the German Joseph Pilates. Yoga originated in India;
6. Different motion states
Pilates is dynamic, while yoga is more static. Specifically, Pilates focuses more on the process of doing movements, while yoga focuses more on how to use your strength and flexibility to maintain movements after you finish them.
Similarities between Pilates and Yoga
1, Yoga and Pilates are static exercises, and the effect is achieved through asana exercises.
2. Yoga and Pilates have strict requirements for breathing, which requires the cooperation of breath.
3. Yoga and Pilates need meditation to practice, a quiet environment and a peaceful mind.
4. Both yoga and Pilates require that you can't eat enough for a while before practice, because of the squeezing and twisting of the abdomen. Being full can easily lead to dizziness and nausea, and also affect digestive function. Therefore, don't eat enough before practice. If you are hungry, you can eat a small amount of energy.
Yoga and Pilates are very helpful to health. Persisting in practice can improve many physical discomforts, enhance the toughness of the body, make the body lighter, more flexible and less prone to injury, and exercise will also bring sunshine and energy to the mind.
Suitable for Pilates and Yoga.
Suitable crowd for Pilates
White-collar workers lack athletes.
Because white-collar workers are sedentary in the office and lack exercise every day, it is easy to have symptoms such as shoulder and neck stiffness, low back pain and abdominal relaxation. Pilates training can relax the shoulders and neck well, and at the same time tighten the deep muscles of the waist and abdomen, which not only balances the muscle tension, but also exercises the deep core muscles and strengthens the spine.
People in need of medical rehabilitation and prevention
Long-term chronic diseases and unbalanced distribution of muscle pressure will lead to chronic cervical spondylosis, low back pain and other phenomena; Regular pilates training can help people with back pain, neck pain or muscle strain to relieve pain, at the same time, it can also prevent injuries and correct bad posture.
Obesity and body deformation
It is suitable for people with overweight body mass index and high body fat content who are obese and deformed. Emphasizing the core exercises in Pilates can make the muscles of abdomen, waist, back, buttocks and legs get good exercise. This kind of exercise makes the lines more compact and the circumference of the body can be significantly reduced.
Women resume physical exercise after delivery.
Most women have relaxation of pelvic floor muscles and abdominal muscles after delivery. When you take part in Pilates exercises, you can strengthen the exercise of pelvic floor muscles and get very good results. After a period of practice, it can help restore the contractility and muscle elasticity of pelvic floor muscles; The training of transverse abdominis muscle can repair the separation of abdominal protrusion and rectus abdominis muscle after delivery.
Professional athletes and amateurs.
Professional athletes generally have different degrees of physical injury. Powerful core strength exercises in Pilates can greatly enhance physical exercise strength and continuously enhance flexibility. Amateurs have the same problem.
People suitable for yoga
An anxious dieter
The weight-loss effect of yoga has been generally certified, otherwise it will not spread to all countries in the world at such a fast speed. Yoga is a healthy and self-disciplined lifestyle to lose weight, not a habit that would have made you fat, so you may lose weight in a happy and peaceful state, without going through a painful dieting process, taking harmful drugs or even deliberately caring about losing weight.
People who are troubled by some chronic diseases
Diseases that affect life safety, such as diabetes, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, and common discomforts in life, such as sinusitis, chronic gastritis, anemia, waist and shoulder pain, can be alleviated and cured by practicing yoga. Therefore, when many people emphasize the role of yoga in losing weight, and when many young women are competing to practice yoga, I strongly recommend middle-aged and elderly women (not limited to women) who have entered menopause or old age to practice yoga.
People who are stressed and eager for peace.
Stress and anxiety are unavoidable in the fast-paced modern life. However, emotions can be channeled. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "grief is better than anger, anger is better than thinking, and thinking is better than fear", which means that emotions promote each other and can be channeled with the help of this relationship. For example, when you are angry, you can calm your anger by thinking of a sad thing and minimize the impact of bad emotions on your body. Stress and anxiety can also be relieved. Through yoga posture, meditation, breathing and their respected lifestyle, we can help us treat life calmly and optimistically.